I'm at a public accounting firm and I like the people and work. However, I feel like I have little say as to my schedule and what clients I'm on. I was wondering if anyone has this same experience? If so, have you figured out a way to remedy and make your voice heard?

I worked for a large regional CPA firm for 20 years and a smaller firm for 8 years prior to that. I started to get really burned out after tax seasons a little over 3 years ago. Didn't think much of it. About two years ago the anxiety to perform and depression set in. I tried vacations, family leave act and felt short term disability was needed. Nothing helped. Anxiety had gotten so bad which affected my performance from being a top performer to below average. Tried working PT but that didn't help at the same firm.Hated the job and the field by then. Every day was a struggle. Beginning of July, I had it. I couldn't do it anymore and decided to retire at 62 1/2 . It has it's ups and downs so far but don't regret retirement from public accounting for health reasons Trying to figure out whether I should look for smaller local CPA firm in the fall or try volunteering It's been a rough ride past two years.

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Hi there! Just moved to Washington and looking for a CPA who specializes in working with doctors. Thanks!

I have done Master of Professional Accounting and I am without any experience. I would like to learn xero and do freelancing can anybody please help me how and where to start.

I had the incorrect dates on my background check. This is for campus hire not experience. The reason being, I didn't want to reveal a 7 month gap of unemployment so i stretched out the start date. Deloitte asked me to work with the internal dept. team to resolve it by documentation or explanation. Any ideas?

Hey everyone,

I had a phone interview last week with a manager and just now I was informed I will be interviewing virtually with 2 professionals. Kinda confused her, I was under the impression that a second round is an office interview? Why would they do a virtual one when I’m interviewing for a job in my city?

The long and short of it is my last year of college I had major sleep related health issues which really messed up my productivity. Now that I've got it under control I'm studying my ass of to do well on the CPA exam but is there anything else I could be doing? Is it worth it for me to take temp jobs, through RobertHalf, to build up experience? Since I want to go into IT Auditing should I look down that path or is that jumping the gun?

Update: I just got back my FAR score & it was the lowest possible passing grade. How do I deal with a recruiter when asked about my score? How should I record this on my resume?