u/BosMassholeTomBrady

Idk about you other industry accountants but I am quite frankly sick of having my competency questioned due to the lack of public accounting experience. Apparently public accounting experience is the end all be all in accounting and without you mine as well quit accting and go die in a ditch because wth could you know about accounting wo it. Im 33 yo w 10 years of industry exp and I'm getting passed up by 25 yos with 3 yrs of public and half formed brains for manager roles.... It's ridiculous. If I would have known my career would have this glass ceiling on without public exp then I would have chosen a different career. First you gatekeep the public opportunity because lack of target school then you use the public exp as filter for managerial roles. Hardwork in accounting does not matter, developing mc processes does not matter, creating managerial packages does not matter, understanding and articulating gaap does not matter, only thing that matters is do you have public accounting experience. Did you go to Bentley? Do you have big 4? Its ridiculous and I understand there are a lot of bad industry accountants so I am being labeled incompetent by association but I just passed FAR in Feb and I'm about to take ISC. I interview for mainly financial reporting roles yet still have my competency questioned by public accountants who act like their experience is gods gift to this great earth. Other industry accountants I would love to hear from you have you had your comptency questioned? Public accountants what's makes your exp so valuable? How do we change this narrative? Shoot I'll get my CPA and open my public accounting firm for all I care because at the end of the day what we do is not rocket science......