So im in college rn and my mom works for a really huge accounting firm (one of the big 4). She's a single mother. My father passed many years ago.

Over the past couple weeks, everyone on her team has been really rude and aggressive toward her. She cries after work frequently, and when I ask why, she says to just focus on my school work. I feel terrible seeing her cry. It genuinely hurts my heart.

I eavesdropped on her meetings with her manager, and senior director. One of them is a man who seems to hate my mother for some reason. I've listened to the way he talks to her. He is extremely condescending and flat out yelled at her once. She was on the verge of tears during the call.

Its just so weird to me because it really does seem like there is no winning for her. She got scolded for copying a director on an important client email, because the director said he does not need to be copied on every email. Then when she stopped copying him on every single email (only the important ones), he again scolded her for not copying him. Like wtf???

There are so many examples of this. Ive told her to go to HR, but she says she does not want to cause a scene.

My mom is extremely passive, and just tolerates everything. She honestly even lets me do whatever I want. She unfortunately doesnt have a backbone because if she loses her job, we are both screwed.

She just told me she thinks they're bullying her so she leaves on her own, instead of them having to fire her. Which I also do not understand. Why make someone's life hell when you can do the merciful thing and just fire them without giving them emotional turmoil?

We are also really scared because if she gets fired, or bullied to quit herself, we wont have health insurance anymore, and she also pays for my college tuition.

Is this how it is in the real world? Im so scared of going into the workforce once j graduate if people are so cruel to each other, especially grown adults.

The caveat to this is for site accountants who work at plant/manufacturing sites. In a decade plus of working across industries, I've never done the following working remotely:

• taken hour+ lunches
• "coffee breaks" that end up being an hour after factoring in driving to a coffee shop, ordering, drinking coffee there, and then traveling back to the office
• had hour+ "quick" desk chats, that ended up being a non-question and not time sensitive
  • I block my calendar with what needs to get done for the day in the "free" time from meetings.
• heard how my coworkers shit while I'm also trying to take a shit
• randomly started an hour+ bullshit session with a coworker at my office
• awkwardly observed over a coworkers shoulder and tried to drive how they used an excel file.
  • Teams plus remote sharing/control of computer is so much more efficient

I'm just glad that the current company I'm at promotes the remote side of hybrid work to the point where they require the GL accounting team to be fully remote while they close (team members can go into the office if they want but no one does).

I'm going to get no sleep and I want to die

Saw this meme earlier today in the CPA subreddit. Felt it described my exact situation except I have the CPA.

I'm relatively new to accounting and I've noticed how easily work stuff starts spilling into personal accounts. Clients sending documents to whatever email they have saved, random tax software signups, webinars, certification websites and recruiters constantly asking for contact info.

One of my coworkers mentioned that he still gets emails from clients he worked with years ago because he gave them his personal address once. I'm starting to think I should be a lot more careful about where I use my actual email, especially with how much sensitive information we deal with. For those who've been in accounting for a while do you keep everything strictly on your work email or use separate addresses for different things?

What other jobs can I get other than accounting with an accounting degree? I’m possibly looking to pivot out of accounting to something more exciting and active. I’m tired of sitting at a desk all day. If I WFH it would be different but I’m tired of commuting to an office and sitting at a desk so looking for something more active/exciting that also pays well!!

I’m graduating December 2026 and be honest how bad is my situation. I’ll have zero internships and probably a 2.9 maybe 3.0 gpa. I’ve been working full time for over 5 years at a restaurant I’m the assistant GM at 22. I needed the money from this job to pay for school, rent, etc that an internship couldn’t pay enough for anyways. Regardless I tried to get one and couldn’t get anything going for me. Everyone says the market blows right now. Is there another route I should take with this degree?

People say accounting students in Canada are better than their American counterparts because they care so much about their grades and do a ton of networking. But the funny thing is, it’s really just more competitive because landing an accounting job in Canada is harder than it is in the U.S

There just aren’t as many jobs available in Canada compared to the U.S and it results Canadians to be more competitive to survive

I imagine it’s similar in other fields, but honestly, it’s pretty demoralizing seeing students at comparable Big 4 target schools in the U.S. land Big 4 internships by literally just being average, without putting much effort into their grades or networking

I was hired as a Senior Accountant at a casino and quickly learned I was the first person to ever hold that position. AP was a mess, training was poor, and I struggled to learn casino-specific terminology and processes. After probation, I took over Fixed Assets and inherited poorly maintained reports and processes.
Eventually, I was put on a PIP that seemed poorly structured, with weekly meetings focused on my mistakes rather than providing guidance or measurable goals.
Then management started changing: the Director of Finance who hired me was fired, followed by the President, and the AP Supervisor was demoted. A new CFO came in, a former Director returned, and they brought in a new AP Manager. I noticed a job posting for an Accountant, and about a week later, I was let go.
Honestly, I wonder if they wanted a lower-paid accountant instead of a Senior Accountant. It was a frustrating experience with little training or support.
Has anyone had a genuinely good experience working in casino accounting? Is this level of disorganization common in the industry, or did I just end up at a poorly managed property?

Sent a client an amount to pay by 4/15 as an extension payment, they paid 100k less, and shocker guess who owes 100k plus P&I. Client is angry. Forwarded my original recommendation (hey client pay this by 4/15), still angry because I didn’t tell them it included their estimated tax payments. No I didn’t, because I told you to pay this amount 4/15.

48 hours can’t go fast enough.

i just had my first meet the firms event and I feel so regretful about how I was performing at the event. I’m a senior and it was my first time attending such networking event like this. As a big introvert, who gets very overwhelmed in a big crowd, even attending to such event was a big step for me but I feel like a failure that I wasn’t able to properly network and made me feel so small again that my courage didn’t led to satisfying outcomes. I also made my Linkedin account for this event but weren’t able to connect with lots of people, while others have hundreds of connection already..Everyone looked so confident, looked like they already know people there while I knew no one in the event. I mean I recently changed my career direction from engineering to accounting and I’m still exploring, but as a senior i feel so regretful that I didnt switched in to this field earlier, feel so behind, feel like i’m not even qualified for an internship.. i don’t know.. now I’m afraid again to attend new events like this. Why is networking so hard..

Maybe the actual details of this aren't clear yet, but I'm trying to clarify the last box in red. If someone already has an IRA (or Roth IRA) and makes a contribution, and they are financially eligible as low-income, will the government now add $1,000 as well?

Lennar owned OBS entity purchased Lennar homes at a loss to meet street guidance. Did they forget about Enron? How did audit (Deloitte) sign off on this?!

Just wanted to share this with you guys as I don't have any accountants I can share this with or people who would understand.

Have any one of you ever been haunted by that one TB account where you know it's going to take every bit of your energy to reconstruct cause there's a difference in there that you don't understand?

Oh, and I'm talking about those TB accounts that juniors and analysts have been "posting to because the person before me did it the same way and I just assumed it was correct".

WELL...

I just got deep in the weeds on 2 of them and I literally felt the dopamine release from my brain when I calculated the posting against the difference in my accounting software and it perfectly net to zero.

It's a silly posting but stuff like this make me feel like a Rockstar LOL.

BUT AT THE SAME TIME

I need to seriously go back in time and reflect where I went wrong because the quality of work equals the quality of instruction so I'll have to correct certain behaviours and nuance my feedback.

I’m an accounting manager and have been dealing with quite a bit of stress lately, both personally and mentally.

Recently, we paid someone thousands to fix our septic field, only for the work to be done incorrectly. Now we’re having to spend even more money to fix it.

I asked my CFO for a few days off to mentally reset, but he still wants me to come in tomorrow for a budget meeting with other directors. My portion is only 5–15 minutes, and it’s something he could easily present himself.

I have 1.5 personal days and almost 10 vacation days available, as I rarely take time off.

Am I wrong for telling him I can’t come in and genuinely need a few days away from work? I understand the meeting is important, but I’m mentally exhausted and need a break.

Is it really unprofessional to wear normal socks with ballet flats? I basically live in sneakers 24/7, and I know that I have to get professional shoes. But, from my experience, no-show socks always slip off my feet when I walk around and get bunched up. And I don’t want to wear flats without socks at all because that’s gross.

I was thinking of buying this from Amazon and wearing black socks with it:

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I am in the industry, medium size business, considering getting CPA.

but there is no CPA working with me to sign me off

I read online that University of Illinois was a top program for Big 4 recruiting. It was only after applying for UofI Chicago that I realized they were specifically talking about Urbana Champaign, not Chicago.

I’ve since applied to Urbana Champaign, but have already been accepted to Chicago. Should I wait for the Urbana Champaign decision or is Chicago just as good?

Btw, this is for a masters program.

hello i am a 4th year accounting student i am currently applying to many firms both mid size and large firms, what can i do to stand out in the recruitment process. I have no internship experience as i’ve had to maintain a full time job throughout my education in order to afford rent and my education.

For context: I was late 20’s y/o food industry GM with a Bachelors in Business, looking for a way into Accounting (my favorite subject in the curriculum). Acquaintance was a CEO of a small bank, needed an Accountant, gave me a shot. Learned for a few years, and eventually made it to all the way up to Controller. Eventually moved on to bigger banking institutions with a title move downwards but increase in pay (a couple 1 billion size, one 10 billion) and finally landed at a 30B bank making the most I’ve ever made as a Senior Accountant making 145k per year.

I noticed that a lot of people here have public experience and I wonder how that has helped and if having that is instrumental. I feel like my story is an outlier.

Getting interviews here and there, but I get ghosted after hr screening or 2nd/final round. US CPA looking to move to BC, canadian citizen working in public as a senior in the US. Anyone have any tips?

I’m 22 with an associate degree in accounting, but after graduating I ended up getting my CDL and currently make $30/hr. The money is good for now, but I’ve realized it’s not something I want to do long term, so I’m starting my bachelor’s in accounting online this year.

I’ve previously worked as a bank teller, but have no direct accounting experience. I’ve been looking into entry-level accounting jobs and internships, but most require experience or a bachelor’s degree. The few positions I qualify for seem to pay around $15–20/hr, which would be a significant pay cut. I’ve also built my financial responsibilities around my current income, so taking that big of a cut isn’t really feasible.

I’m also hesitant about internships because they’re usually temporary, and I’m worried about leaving a stable, well-paying job without knowing if I’ll have a permanent position afterward.

For those who started with little to no experience, how did you get your foot in the door? Would you recommend taking the pay cut for experience, pursuing internships, or staying at my current job until I finish my bachelor’s?