Top 10 CPA Career Stories of 2005

January 19, 2006

Despite great demand for their services, CPAs are increasingly concerned about staff recruiting, retention and work-life balance.

from AICPA Career Insider staff

https://www.cpa2biz.com/Career/Top+10+CPA+Career+Stories+of+2005.htm

The 2005 headlines were chock full of stories about the keen demand for experienced accounting and financial professionals - particular those with internal audit experience - but Career Insider readers and HR managers in the trenches of the number crunching world were not as enthused as one might think.

A lot of recent research indicates that CPAs may be more confident about their job security than at any time in recent memory, but their level of job satisfaction seems to be lacking. Over and over again in 2005, they shared with us their fears about burnout, their inability to keep up with an ever-increasing workload and generally feeling under-appreciated by their superiors. Senior partners maligned the perceived lack of dedication and commitment from younger colleagues and hiring managers lamented their inability to find (much less retain) experienced staffers to help them handle their workloads.

Here’s a look at our most popular stories of 2005 with links to our archives if you’d like to read them again. Our Reader Engagement Index (REI) measures how popular the story was relative to the average story (Index = 100) that appeared in CPA Career Insider in 2005.

Most Popular CPA Career Insider Articles of 2005
Story REI
Index*
6 Good Ideas for Happy Staffs 882
Boomers, X-ers and Y’s: CPA Generation Gap Is Real 485
Tips and Traps for Going SOHO 429
Why Are You Working So Hard? 402
What’s the Secret to Success for CPAs? 391
Happy Holidays … Now Get Back to Work! 344
Benefits: The New Weapon in the Battle for Staff 308
New Year’s Resolution #1: Find a New Job 301
CPAs Mull Work/Life Balance on Eve of Busy Season 280
Do You Need a Vacation? 274
Source: AICPA Insider 2005, Doubleclick DARTMail
* The AICPA Career Insider Reader Engagement Index (REI) assigns a relative measure of reader interest in each story published. A story with a median level of reader interest is assigned a value of 100. A story with an index of 150, means 1.5 times as many readers viewed it than the typical AICPA Career Insider story.

Posted at January 20, 2006
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