The accountancy profession needs to take notice. The next generation of accountants don’t want to climb the corporate jobs ladder – instead they want to build their own!
Intuit QuickBooks’s new research on the Changing Face of Accountancy reveals a striking shift in how young people see the profession, with 75%of accounting students saying they want to start their own accountancy-related business.
Mazars AAT apprentice graduate, social media influencer and founder of Hardy Accounting, Grace Hardy MAAT (pictured), explained: “Accountancy gets labelled as male, pale and stale – but for people my age, that’s not the vibe at all. What attracted me to the profession is the emerging tech being used.”
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