CPA firm consultant Allan Boress asserts that part of the reason that the profession has difficulty retaining people is that we fail to embrace higher values. Lawyers do it with “pro bono” work. But in accounting, “pro bono” is “accounting-ese for ‘are you out of your mind?’ â€
“CPAs are the greediest people I know,” Boress says. “Not that attorneys and doctors and other professionals aren’t. Except they tend to donate time and money to help people.”
He says:
It is greed – pure and simple – that lies at the heart of many of our professions problems: lack of funds to do marketing right, refusal to pay staff what they are worth, less than desirable working environments, no pro bono work, and pressure to bill, bill, bill – for full realization or pay the piper on your evaluation.
It’s greed, pure and simple, that is the cancer in our business.
That may be hard a hard pill to swallow for the CPA profession. But Boress has never been one for understatement. See his post titled “CPAs = Greed, Inc.,”
