With fewer college students and graduates turning to the accounting profession for careers as older accountants are retiring en masse, a troubling staffing shortage has developed in the space. Firms ...

Hiring of accounting and finance employees is anticipated to increase in the fourth quarter, according to a newly released survey of CFOs in the United States. Nine percent of the 1,400 CFOs surveyed ...

Steve Saah, executive director of the finance and accounting permanent placement practice at Robert Half, joined the JofA podcast last week at the Future of Finance Summit in Orlando, Fla. In the ...

Job stability and stronger junior salaries are helping pull students back into accounting, said American Accounting ...

As president and CEO of the Indiana CPA Society, Courtney Kincaid spends a lot of time promoting the merits of an accounting career. “It’s a great profession and it offers so much opportunity.” At the ...

The accounting industry is feeling the pinch from the “Great Resignation” and labor shortage, and firms are ramping up retention and recruiting efforts to maintain productivity and fill vacancies.

Hiring in accounting and finance is likely to be flat in the second quarter of 2012 in the United States even though CFOs are confident in their business prospects for that period, a Robert Half ...