Why is there still a shortage of senior accounting talents today?

1. Lack of management thinking. Most schools focus on basic education when training students majoring in accounting. However, accounting is a management major, and management thinking is not formed in schools. It will be much more difficult to develop this kind of thinking in future work. My mentor once had a wonderful description, which goes something like this: Accountants are wandering between borrowing and lending, obsessed with statements, and drowning in the ocean of accounting vouchers. What it means is that accountants don’t know how to jump out of the basic work framework and open up the pattern. I have met many people who have been in the industry for more than ten years. They are familiar with the one-third of an acre of land under their jurisdiction, but I don’t know why they do it, what are the pros and cons of doing it, and I don’t know what contribution it makes to management. They only know practical things and cannot even comment on process design. The inherent lack of management thinking restricts many accountants from developing into senior talents.

2. The treatment is low. Compared with other majors, most accountants earn an average salary. They have no worries about food and clothing, and cannot ask for wealth. Most programmers of my age earn more than three times what I do. Most of my classmates who gave up their accounting major after graduation to work in finance, sales, etc. earn more than twice what I do. We once discussed a question: If you are purely engaged in the accounting industry and rely on honest labor income, and want to live in a large house of 200 square meters in Beijing, what should you do? The answer given by most people is that they can only become a partner in an accounting firm. Click on the recruitment website to search. Accountants with a monthly salary of RMB 20,000 to RMB 30,000 can already reach the level of financial director. Many of these positions require more than 10 years of experience and more than 5 years of relevant management positions. Low remuneration directly leads to a considerable number of outstanding talents changing careers.