Episode 47

Why Are So Many Professionals Leaving or Not Even Entering Accounting?

Published on: 9th November, 2021

Episode 47. In today's news episode, The Accounting Influencers Podcast explores accountancy as a preferred profession or career choice plus better talent retention for accounting firms.

Key takeaways include:

▶ What leads accounting firm leaders and firm partners to view their staff as 'worker ants'

▶ Why financial and emotional investment in employees is so low in accounting practices

▶ What looking after your staff makes them want to do in an accounting practice

▶ What makes many younger accountants doubt their future and place in the accounting profession

▶ Are there really more accounting professionals leaving the profession than there are coming into it?

▶ Why the talent shortage in accounting and finance is only acute in some parts of the world

▶ How technology and outsourcing play their part in harnessing the human capital in an accounting firm

▶ How to keep accounting talent in the profession if they are looking elsewhere or not being looked after where they are

▶ Where the blame right lie for accountants leaking out of or not wanting to come into the accountancy profession

▶ How loss of good accounting talent is worsened by the inability of many accountancy practices to recruit new talent

▶ How numbers-oriented individuals and accounting graduates have so many career options now outside of accountancy practices

▶ The difference between an accounting practice and an accounting business

▶ How the Big 4 firms cast a net over the highest quality accounting talent, then spit the rest out for other firms to fight over

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Accounting Voices Podcast
Accounting Voices helps people in the accounting world stay relevant visible and vocal. Host Rob Brown interprets trends reshaping the profession and gives listeners insight to build authority influence and a stronger voice in firms and markets.
Accounting Voices, hosted by Rob Brown, helps decision makers and leaders in accounting and finance stay relevant, visible and vocal in a profession being reshaped by technology, private equity, regulation and shifting client expectations. Each episode interprets the trends disrupting accounting and finance such as AI, automation, M&A, talent and the move to advisory and translates them into practical insight that strengthens authority and influence.
Accounting Voices is also a platform for the wider ecosystem of networks, associations, educators, consultants, software vendors and technology experts who serve accountants and finance professionals worldwide. It extends into regular Accounting Voices networking sessions that connect this audience and amplify ideas that move the profession forward. With its international reach and long shelf life the show delivers credibility and commercial value for listeners and sponsors alike. Search for "Accounting Voices" on YouTube for all episodes and connect with Rob Brown on LinkedIn to find out more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/therobbrown

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Rob Brown

ob Brown is the creator and host of the Accounting Voices Network, a media platform that includes the flagship solo podcast Accounting Voices and the panel shows Accounting M&A and Accounting Tech. He chairs conferences, panels and virtual events worldwide and is recognised as a leading advocate for the accounting profession.

He is an accomplished speaker and authority on trust, reputation, employer brand, talent, succession, executive presence and the forces shaping the future of accounting. Rob is the author of the bestselling book Build Your Reputation (Wiley) and his TEDx talk The Personal Brand of You has been viewed more than 400,000 times.

A former co-founder of the Accounting Influencers Roundtable, Rob now focuses on amplifying the voices of leaders, firms, networks, vendors and influencers across the global accounting ecosystem.

Outside of work he is a stroke survivor, lives with epilepsy, holds a black belt in kickboxing and is based in Nottingham, UK. He plays chess and backgammon, loves orange chocolate and is allergic to grapefruit.