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Holy guacamole, AI is dumb. I have a whole bunch of non-accountants running stuff through AI trying to tell me how to do accounting. And it is so wrong.

I don’t think people get, it’s way more than just debts and credits. There is judgment calls, there’s what you can support, there’s processes that are dependencies. There’s corporate structure stuff and a lot of that exterior knowledge that isn’t really described when people present something on face value. And that’s where we come in, cause we know like, hey, you gotta look for these other things or hey, you gotta ask more questions and just say what can we capitalize .

And let me be clear, AI with accruals and reconciliations, I’m pretty thankful for that help, but in reality, if you got your processes clean, it’s not that big of a lift

I was looking at the company’s proxy statement for this year and holy fucking shit, the HR SVP made $900k in total compensation. $360k base, $340k bonus, and another $200k in stocks and other incentives 💀 HR???

How long did it take you to achieve this?

I am now a member of the club

It isn’t even hard, i don’t understand why interns are so intimidated by it

30 minutes every day for a week can you get 70% of the way to navigating without a cursor

When I go into my local office once a week, I’ll have to be on Teams calls all day long given that every person from my team lives in a different state than I do.

It just so happens that everyone else from my team also happens to get to stay 100% fully remote since they all don’t live anywhere near an office.

Therefore, I’ll be the only one from my entire team who has to go into an office (while everyone else stays 100% fully remote on my team).

Anyone else have something similar happen and what did you do?

If you guys are salaried in California your employer is legally required to pay you a minimum of about 70k. Google it. My HR person didn’t know their ass from their elbow, surprise surprise, and I got a nice pay bump because of it.

I just took my first midterm for Intermediate Accounting 1, which is relatively just harder content than Foundations Accounting (not first year accounting, its like slightly easier intermediate) which I did really well in. Walked out of the exam feeling super bad about it and checked to see what I thought I did right, to see I clearly missed the mark on it.

It felt so much harder by a landslide than foundations accounting which I struggled with at first, but I was wondering if it is normal to feel completely knocked over by intermediate accounting (at a Canadian university). Thank you!!

Need advice.

I’m at a mid-sized firm. I used to work in corporate, but I decided to stick it out until I get my CPA because the firm has a pre-approved route. However, with all the changes happening to CPA policies in Canada, I’m not sure how things will work out.

I like the team I’m on, but sometimes I wonder if I should have stayed in corporate, especially with all the CPA changes. I started at the firm earlier this year, and it’s been so stressful. I worked at a firm before, moved to corporate, and then moved back to public accounting.

How are you all managing the stress? I wake up some days and find it hard to feel content with my decision. I also took a pay cut, so that’s another factor.

I'm just feeling a bit stuck and unsure if I made the right choice. I’d appreciate hearing from anyone who’s been in a similar situation.

i’m currently crying and admitting defeat with my accounting homework. am i really stupid or is accounting genuinely this hard? my teacher gives so much work and it’s so heavy and i feel so behind and stupid.

I hate this shit so much. I just wanna hunt, eat meat, and have sex. Why tf was I born in this timeline where I gotta stare at screens and go on mf teams all day. I don’t wanna stare at a screen for 8 hours and sitting down all day doing boring ass shit anymore. I’d rather be a hunter gatherer and be free in nature. The native Americans had this shit down to a science. Fuck Columbus

I'll go first. I ended up in accounting (non CPA) because I struggled with that subject the most in grad school and I'm a glutton for punishment. I went back to grad school later in life and somehow ended up with an entry level position in accounting when I finished, and 6 years later I am still doing it. Do I love it? No. Do I even like it? Also no. I wanted to leave (I work in CAS) but found a remote job doing it and figured it would be crazy to turn it down. But if I scroll on Tik Tok sometimes and I would love to be an influencer. Yes, crazy I know. I have a theory that no one really "likes" accounting and we would all do something else if we figure out how. So what do you really want to do?

For 11 years I have been a consultant at a finance company focused on the construction industry. In this position, I would advise clients on difficult financial transactions. There was a lot of work, but it was manageable. It kept me busy between working hours.

I was unexpectedly offered a position as the Director of Operations, which I took because it almost doubled my salary. The problem is I have no idea what I do. I pretty much have nothing to do throughout the day. I sit in management meetings now, but I feel like they don’t even talk about work much. The last one was about planning where to do a golf outing.

I head a couple of departments and have call-outs reported to me and help fill schedules. I would also deal with any internal issues. The departments all get along - so nothing to do there. There is one employee on a behavior plan, but it’s for a pretty bad reason, so it’s above my head.

I also do reviews, but they’re not until after the first quarter. I touch base with each department weekly to see what they are delegating. Other than that, I have no idea what to do! I work from home, so I pretty much just poke around all day. I’ve asked the president, and he just says that I’m doing a good job. I also asked him to write a job description, and I do everything on it, but it does not fill up a day at all.

Is this truly what working in management is like or am I missing something?

Can you relate?

More. I need more.

More pivot tables, more xlookup, vba, conditional formatting and macros

It feels quite nice when you get into that state

I’ve been seeing a lot of entry-level job postings offering around $40k–$55k, and I’m curious if that’s actually the norm for recent graduates.

Just trying to get a realistic idea of what other recent grads are making!

I’m a senior accountant working for the regional subsidiary of a group with revenues ~500m. My region contributes around 100m of that.

We got a new controller just before Christmas, and had apparently never used Oracle even though he’s been in accounting for 20 years. No problem with that, but he completely refuses to learn. He’s been here a year but doesn’t know how to run a TB or transaction listing, just completely reliant on others to run all of his reports.

The audit team sent a request while I was on leave, and it went unanswered for more than a week because he “wasn’t sure how to run the information they wanted”. Literally all they wanted was a transaction listing for a specific account, but he didn’t think to even google it. I know this guy is making absolute bank, and it’s baffling to me how he’s made it this far.

E: I feel a lot of responses are over-estimating how high up this guy is in the company. He manages 3 people (me & 2 others in a different country), none of whom have any management responsibility, and the hierarchy is him -> local FD -> Group FD -> Group CFO. We’re not talking about the no.2 guy in finance who’s meant to be driving strategy, his remit is very much financial control and compliance.

I’m currently in my first semester of my second year of college and I’m having a hard time envisioning the job market 3 years down the road. AI is getting too big to ignore with some of my classes talking about basic usage and even some assignments requiring it, although the knowledge of ai in academic feels far behind what it’s actually capable of doing today with the release of newer models. It’s apparent it’s automating and taking over jobs especially in the entry level. I know for someone who has experience in the field this isn’t much of a worry as yk someone has to look and verify the outputs of all this but what about someone like me who doesn’t have that. In three years why would companies even hire at the entry level when theres people with more experience that will continue overseeing AI, surely a shortage of that won’t be coming soon since experience will most likely be more important than ability with AI. I don’t mean to sound the doomsday alarm like most have but what would someone in the field who understands how AI is changing the market go about my situation. Is it worth going through school for 3 more years just with the slim chance there’s still jobs to pick from. Especially when the job market is already stagnant as is. I don’t want to take a gamble with my future for a piece of paper that will be meaningless in the changing landscape 3 years from now.

I’ve been in AR for 5 years. Decided to go back to school to get my masters in accounting because my bachelors was in a different field. 75 applications and 2 interviews, and nothing for a staff accountant job. Talked to 3 recruiters. They all seemed eager to help and then completely ghosted me. First interview I had I got to the final round then was rejected. Another interview I had a phone screen and never heard back.

The job market is an absolute joke. I’m thankful to be employed but I didn’t go back to school to be in AR the rest of my life. Tried moving up at my current company and have to deal with workplace politics and favoritism bullsh*t.

Did I make a mistake? Then we hear about Microsoft layoffs. The whole point of me returning to school was to be able to get better higher paying jobs. I’ve given up on the job search already and my motivation is at an all time low. I’m also not feeling challenged in my current role anymore and I’m just over it.

Now what?

I’m doing a master in accounting, and I think everyone knows how the workload can be for accounting especially for a short program. I haven’t been getting interviews lately and it’s honestly one of the only things that was keeping me going.

Before my studies I took a gap year but getting interviews for internships/jobs genuinely motivated me. Now it’s nothing and I find it hard to focus when studying for a test because I think instinctively my body feels like I’m doing it for nothing, that it’s just a waste of time. Does anyone else feel the same way??

Because I sure do.

Like many others I went into this line of work because I wanted stability and an okay wage.

Well, this field is not stable. Offshoring and AI are massively eroding this field. Anyone who does not think AI will destroy this line of work has their head in their sand. Not only that, but perfection is the bare minimum needed in this line of work. That is because managers can and will fire you at a moment's notice if you are not perfect.

There is also no money to be made either. I have been trying for five years now and still have not made more than 50k a year in any accounting job that I have had.

And with AI advancing at a rapid rate, there seems to be no point anymore.

If I had to do this all over again, I would have gone into healthcare. Does anyone else regret choosing accounting?

Have been not received any interviews with this resume through cold applications. Any advice for the resume?

I’ve been out of the game for a while but im trying to get back in. I’m struggling to find internships. For either summer 2027 or winter 2028. In my area summer 2028 is not out yet. They have a different cycle here I guess. Rate my resume. What am I doing wrong that I’m not getting any interviews (like forget offers at this point, I’m not even getting interviews)

I'm not saying that the Big 4 in the US, EU, Asia, SA, etc. don't get into hijinks. But I feel like the Aussies are always stealing the show. What is it about Straya that leads to so many high profile accounting scandals? Is it because it was quite literally colonized by criminals, or on the contrary, do they have enough whistleblowers and competent regulators to catch this activity? Is it somewhere in between? Really curious for some insight into the matter from the boys and girls down unda.