Weekend Discussion: Fear and Loathing in Public Accounting

a worry-eating stuffed animal with zipper mouth

There’s something in the air and it isn’t ripe armpits in the audit room.

Lifted from Reddit here.

This isn’t about one particular firm — though individual firms are doing a great job shattering trust among their own people in recent weeks (see: PwC, GT) — rather, it’s about how all of this looks to students, people in the first few years of their career, and the public. For a profession that’s supposedly super stable even in economic downturns, things sure aren’t looking very stable right now.

Something else of interest I saw on Twitter:

Why does it feel like something really bad is about to happen?