What do young accountants want to do with their lives?

By Daniel Hood  

Perhaps the crowning irony of the accounting profession's pipeline problem is that people are staying away from accounting in droves just at the moment that it is becoming a better place to work than ever before.

It's true: This is the best time in history to be an accountant. Young people joining the profession now will get paid more, have more flexibility, get more input into how their firms operate, do more interesting work, have more career opportunities, have much more freedom in what they wear to work, and just generally enjoy themselves more than any previous generation of accountants in history.

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