In a recent Forbes article, Paul Peterson, CPA, CEO and managing partner of Wiss, wrote that if you were designing the accounting profession from scratch today, it wouldn’t look anything like the version most firms are still trying to maintain. Paul joins us for a discussion about how firms are adapting to the changes in career expectations, shifting client expectations, the impact of AI and more.
Topics discussed:
- 1:03 — Do people want to work in accounting as it exists today?
- 4:24 — How are CPA firms responding to the pipeline challenge and changing career expectations?
- 7:59 — What other majors or disciplines are accounting firms hiring?
- 16:37 — What is the role of AI in reshaping firm service models?
- 20:51 — What will the accounting firm of the future look like?
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