“You are a perfectionist”. How often do you hear this phrase from your colleagues, friends, or relatives? While striving for perfection is admirable, it often can become a hinderance. A hinderance to our success.  There is a difference between perfection and getting it right. Dwelling over an email, for example, erasing what you just typed, […]

Whether or not you are a CPA, if you used to work in a standard office setting pre-pandemic, you may be wondering if your firm or company will loosen its standard dress code. If you are in a public accounting space, a typical office attire used to be business casual. Sometimes you could wear jeans […]

When I was a senior associate, I remember a six month long busy season that happened in my public accounting career. I’m probably the lucky one and many of you lived or currently live through yet another lengthy and horrendous busy season. No matter how short or long it is, a busy season takes all […]

If you are in college or in the industry and debating whether or not public accounting is for you, read this post. BUSY SEASON There are so many horrific stories about never-ending busy seasons that can influence you to never join public accounting. Many of the stories are true. Working late and often is not […]