You hear the buzz words all the time; everyone is talking about the shifting priorities in the workplace, cloud based accounting and outsourcing.
The business world is changing rapidly and the accounting industry is changing with it. What's in store, and how is the industry responding?
The primary challenge to the accounting industry, as indicated in American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) surveys, is maintaining the population of its talent pool. A driver of this challenge is the divergence of priorities and expectations of the emerging workforce from industry traditions.
And we're not talking about your unruly interns anymore – they've been around long enough that they're management now. While some industries started catering to them immediately, the movement to meet the demands of this new generation wasn't as natural for the accounting industry.
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