and four simple solutions.
by rick telberg
if this is february, then it’s the season for already forgetting our new year’s resolutions. i don’t know about you, but i’ve already broken a few of them.
but there are some new year’s resolutions that we cannot afford to ignore. for accountants, here are just four. that’s right: only four. that’s all we have space for here. but each is hitched to a pervasive dilemma within the profession.
accounting firms hire the most, pay less.
the average salary for accounting majors is averaging up 3.7 percent to $50,500, according to a new survey of college graduates and the employers who hired them.
poll shows what it takes to land the best students.
public accounting report’s 30th annual poll of college accounting professors shows that if their best student had a choice, that student would choose pricewaterhousecoopers to start their career.
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new data shows where many firms are falling short.
accounting firms need to start worrying that their best people could jump ship for the next great opportunity.
survey reveals widening gap with men.
only 48 percent of women are satisfied with their careers, compared to 59 percent of men — a gap that has only widened from year to year, according to a mergis group survey.
and nearly three-quarters of women in accounting and finance believe they face a tougher set of obstacles than their male counterparts.
index hits recessionary levels.
a leading gauge of confidence among finance and accounting professionals has hit its lowest level since early 2009.
but 61 percent are confident in the future of their current employer, up from 56 percent in the previous quarter.
after years of layoffs, large and regional accounting firms are hiring.
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.
maybe the 150-person firm in bellevue, wash., has found a winning formula.
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clark nuber is consistently ranked among one of washington’s best places to work and the firm has an 88 percent retention rate. tracy l. white, sphr, senior director of human resources, shares insights into what it takes to build a dedicated staff:
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.
survey: staffers dismayed about job prospects and the economy.
the accounting and finance employee confidence index, a measure of overall confidence among u.s. accounting and finance workers, slips 2.1 points to 50.0 in the second quarter of 2011, according to the mergis group, a professional placement agency.
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