the economy turns a corner.
according to a survey of u.s. accounting firms by sageworks, 92% of financial professionals believe that businesses will either maintain or increase their employee count in 2012.
strategy 2012: battling for market share
what are your critical challenges for 2012, and what can do you about them? a number of the profession’s leading lights have been sharing their thoughts with accounting today. here’s one:
charles postal
santos postal & co.
we see a shrinking market share of small and medium-sized businesses with the need for premium accounting services caused by increased competition from larger firms with greater resources.
but no new hiring.
via aicpa
the outlook for the u.s. economy improved in the fourth quarter, but broad pessimism about the progress of a recovery persists, according to the fourth quarter aicpa economic outlook survey, which polls chief financial officers, controllers and certified public accountants in executive and senior management accounting roles.
even as cpa firms shrink by 1,100.
the nation’s accounting and bookkeeping sector accounted for 2,000 of the 80,000 new jobs created in october, according to new preliminary and seasonally-adjusted data from the u.s. labor department.
for the nation, the jobs gain pushed the unemployment rate down to 9.0% from 9.1%.
for the accounting and bookkeeping sector, october’s performance represents a third straight month of gains and a year-to-year gain of 60,800 jobs, bringing the industry’s payroll to 932,200 employees.
corporate hiring plans go from dreary to dismal.
worried by economic crises and gridlocked political systems, about 53% of cfos surveyed by deloitte say they are losing faith in the economic outlook, a dramatic change from 32% in the previous quarter.
millions of “help wanted” ads surveyed and indexed.
indexed to february 2010, the number of open “accountant” jobs has increased 64% and the number of open “cpa” jobs has declined 11%, according to data from simply hired, a job search engine affiliated with 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间. the graph displays the percentage of jobs with the search terms anywhere in the job listing.
industry grows to 926,000 employees nationwide.
the scant month-to-month increase came after a stall during the summer, resuming six months of advances from january through june, according to new and preliminary seasonally-adjusted figures from the department of labor.
get the briefing paper on the “american jobs act.” with hopes of stimulating national job growth in the near future, president obama is urging congress to pass a $447 billion jobs package. but many tax practitioners just want to know: … continued
sixth month of year-over-year gains.
by rick telberg
employment in the accounting and bookkeeping sector slipped by a statistically insignificant 800 jobs in august, to 922,400 people. that was barely a change from june’s 923,200-jobs level, and it represents the third straight month of declines. but it also represents the sixth month of year-over-year gains.
a matter for debate.
some say the business has reached maturity (here and here) and may even be in decline (here). others argue the best and biggest days lie ahead (here).
readers have been weighing in. read more →
hoisted from comments, in response to “who’s searching for accountants?“
by div bhansali
accountantsworld
the number of google searches for accountants hasn’t dropped by over 50% since 2004. in fact, it’s grown pretty substantially.
google trends doesn’t chart absolute growth or decline in a search term – it charts how popular that term is relative to searches as a whole. this is from google’s own help document (http://www.google.com/intl/en/trends/about.html#1):
one reason why firms can’t ignore wealthcare.
no, not if it can outgrow rudimentary compliance services and seize new opportunities in personal financial planning, says tony batman, chairman and ceo of 1st global, which provides investment management capabilities to cpa firms.
