Accountant by Day

I am happy to announce that I’ve entered the Yakezie Challenge! You can see the badge over there in my sidebar, along with widget showing my current Alexa page rank. Yakezie Personal Finance Blog Network For those of you unfamiliar with Yakezie, it is a personal finance blog network with a twist. The challenge, for new participants, is to spend 6 months blogging great content, linking to and commenting on other personal finance blogs, and ultimately getting your blog into the top 200,000 Alexa blog ranking.

I guess we’re in the calm before the storm. Work had picked up for a couple of weeks, with going to the prelim audit and all, but this past week was pretty slow for most of us in the office. (The partners are always busy on some phone call or another.) We have had a couple “interns for a day” in our office this week, but they mostly spent their day with the woman that they were shadowing (maybe she had all the work this week?

I read two articles today, aimed at young CPA’s in particular, but most likely valid to many young workers my age. The first article is aimed at CPA firms, listing steps that firms can take to make sure that millennials (those born between 1978 to 1994) are engaged at work, in order to entice them to continue working for your CPA firm, instead of looking for greener pastures. The article mentions that this age group is expected to make up over 75% of the workforce in about 10 years time.

In public accounting, there’s an expectation that young employees need to “put in their time” as we call it. And they need to put in this time because, well, that’s what everyone else did when they’re a young employee. I think every generation thinks that the generation that comes after them is lazy and disrespectful. Go and read Musings of an Abstract Aucklander’s post on why this is probably not actually that true (see the quote from Socrates near the end.