The accounting industry is trending downwards? #accounting #accountingindustry #accounting #accoutingmajor #taxes #taxfiling #business #businesspodcast #podcast Episode 360 of The Accounting Podcast | Listener Mail: Compilations, Talent Crisis, ESOPs, 120 v. 150, TurboTax

If the accounting profession had a scorecard full of KPIs, they're all going down, it's all red arrows, right? Number of accounting students, number of accounting grads, number of CPA candidates, number of CPAs, all trending downward. Salaries based on inflation, like yeah. Yeah, salaries based on inflation, trending downward for 20 years. Number of jobs unfilled, number of firms, 42% of firms can't find enough staff, are turning away work. Give me one positive data point that I can point to in accounting. So are they even looking at the numbers? And if they are, are they wishful thinking? Are they hoping that it's gonna turn around magically when we start promoting the profession as like, I don't know, more sexy, as Roger Phillips said in our interview with him and Peter Alento? Nothing's gonna change until the business model changes. It's the educational big four industrial complex.