Many accountants and people in public accounting are participating in the social media blitz of #AuditorProud on September 22, 2016. (Yes, I realize I am a day late, and I often am with birthday cards also, so please bear with me.) I, too, consider myself #AuditorProud which may surprise many people as I am now nowhere near my audit roots. I began my career as an auditor for a public accounting firm that is in the top ten of public accounting firms today. Our clients were not publicly traded, but we had a fantastic client list that included some highly recognizable names within the manufacturing, academia and financial institution space (some that are publicly traded today). My public accou
Most people have friends that can share "break up" horror stories. Well, those horror stories can happen in job break ups also. Handing in a resignation is a very difficult thing to do in most cases. Why? Because when you have invested much of your time with a company and, more importantly, individuals within that company you have some sense of loyalty to them. This topic is very top of mind because a very good friend of mine just resigned from a company where she worked for over 17 years. It is a very large corporation and has provided her with numerous opportunities to grow her career in unimaginable ways. In fact, she did so well and progressed so far that she progressed right past the
