aicpa career insider<\/a>)<\/p>\ndoes work keep you awake at night? if so, you’re not alone.<\/p>\n
roughly four in 10 accountants and financial managers report that the relentless whip of topsy-turvy 1040s, forgotten schedule c’s, impending sox 404 reports, and deadlines, deadlines, deadlines leads to “regular” sleeplessness. and even those who said work didn’t keep them awake weren’t all that sure about it. another third admitted that work did indeed keep them awake at least “sometimes.”
\nestimates of insomnia in the general population range from 10 percent to 48 percent, depending on the definition, which, if our informal study is to be believed, puts accountants and financial managers at the upper end of the scale.<\/p>\n
for financial managers and accountants, predictably, tax time is the most common cause of accounting-induced insomnia. an anonymous senior partner in a fairly small firm sums up a common experience: “during times close to deadlines, it gets tough.”<\/p>\n
and when the going gets tough, the tough get out of bed and do the undone. “why lie awake at night worrying about the job?” asked steve attaway, of hendersonville, n.c. “if something needs to be done, stay up all night and take care of it. otherwise it will still be there in the morning.”<\/p>\n
“[i’m kept awake] when i put things off that should be done,” said one accountant. “then i get up and do whatever work is keeping me awake.”<\/p>\n
some people don’t need to get up. one really full-time professional said, “i’m constantly solving problems after hours, during sleep, when the pressure is off.”<\/p>\n
al weller, a senior partner in mountain lakes, n.j., has a similarly laid-back-overtime approach to the sleep-work conflict: “sometimes you have to sleep to be creative and get efficacious solutions for clients.” <\/p>\n
talk about efficacious solutions, a good one came out of a small firm in atlanta: “i just crash on the sofa and fall asleep fully dressed before i can make it up to bed.”<\/p>\n
a nap before bed. not a bad idea. but maurice mel crohn, a small shop cpa in chicago, has a better one: “everything is left in the office when i go home.”<\/p>\n
fellow chicagoan kevin allen ake goes him one better. he doesn’t have a job. “i sleep like a baby,” he wrote, “very good sleep.”<\/p>\n
someone in middle management of a smallish firm has learned to juggle job and sleep. for several years work kept him awake, he said, “until i realized the problems i was worrying about were not mine!”<\/p>\n
hallelujah! but what do you do if the problems are yours? well?you could stay awake. “sometimes i worry that i need to reach out to my clients for financial planning and that i’m not pushy enough.”<\/p>\n
a mere four percent, all in middle management, slept, but apparently not too well. one reported “a lot of bad dreams about making mistakes.” another said, “i do (unfortunately) dream about work sometimes.”<\/p>\n
american taxpayers, investors and managers should appreciate the reality that our study unveiled. the books may be balanced, the tax returns ready to go, but somewhere there’s an accountant awake in bed, fretting it all for the rest of america.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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