>accountantStill have a job but most of the people I know from my graduate year plus licensing years have lost their positions to ai. Anyone else lost their position and life’s work and career to ai?
wouldn't people still want an accountant who knows what theyre doing to use the ai to do it for them
>>62099002Nope. Don't want to say what industry tho because it's a well-kept secret.
>>62099005People have been trying to phase out accountants for awhile. Sad to say we are the perfect parasites because accounting rules are extremely nuanced, there will be nothing that phase us out. Offshoring will hurt though, but thirdies are shown to be incapable of meeting deadlines for some reason and again it also points back to accounting rules.
>>62099018Accountants are not going to disappear but a 30% reduction in all types is more than enough to fuck up a lot people and the industry. >>62099005People that say muh accountants are safe are usually accountants. Those that are retired or close to retirement know it is over but those still with decades left need to cope.
>>62099061do you really think of accounting as "your life's work?"
>>62099002I don't know a single accountant who's lost a job and like half of my friend group went accounting
>>62099104> like half of my friend group went accountingWow. How pathetic.
>>62099100It is called a “career.” Loser.
>>62099121You think that's bad, 70% of the women went to nursing school
>>62099125should've jockeyed for that senior manager role in charge of the AI transition. you could've been talking about data lakes, instead you're probably gonna drunkenly crash your car into a real one in a few months. RIP TO YOUR CAREER BRO
>>62099002you've been doomposting ai killing accountancy for over a year now and in that time the unemployment rate for accountants has gone from 1.8% down to 1.7%. it's time for you to fuck off and take your noise with you, retard.
>>62099234If you have a CPA it piss easy to get a fucking role lmao, I'm waiting for companies to be chill and accountants can digitial nomad.
just be a criminal accountant who know how to cook the book to evade tax and cheat investors
>>62099002My wife just lost her accounting job at a bank to AI. And she has noticed on job postings they’ve lowered salaries.
My son in law just graduated cum loudly and had no issues securing a position at the firm he where he was interned. AI can't even deepfake a proper Homelander Flight 37 vidya.
>>62099506>old enough to have a son in law>makes cum loudly jokes
>>62099005no
>>62100500Failed loser who has to cope with marriage and kids. Most channers are like this. No value, middle aged loser with wife and kids and has to constantly talk about it cause nothing else in life.
very niche healthcare analytics. AI is just now starting to nip at my heels. The fact most LLM's are still kinda retarded if you know how to analyze their output helps. But yes the day is coming. And I don't care. I've saved up a lot of $ and am used to living beneath my means. I can get a random government job (disabled veteranfag) and 50k+benefits is more than enough.
>>62099005Yeah so now one accountant can handle 10, 20 or even 100 times as many clients. So we only need a tiny fraction of the existing workforce.
>>62100872I pray to god AI replaces me so I can finally fuck off and do something else. I hate this faggot shit more than words can describe but it’s easy and the pay is bretty gud so I can’t leave unless forced.
>>62099002>people I know from my graduate year plus licensing years have lost their positions to ai. What country? If you’re just doing data entry as “accounting” you did it wrong.
>>62099104Same. All it’s doing is replacing repetitive tasks. So in accounting that’s either intern work or offshore work.
>>62099134hnngh Asians
>>62100989People will just ai to do it now. All my friend’s wives did their own accounting/tax this year and their taxes aren’t the simple kind. They used to pay $2000 bucks for us or another accountant to do it.
>>62101484Maybe your friends and other accountants are small timers. My friends are all in the 1% of Americans and this was the first year many did it themselves. It would be pure cope to think major corporations don’t want to spend less on accounting and similar departments.
>Derek M., 41, spent nearly two decades as an accountant, owning a home, driving a new car, holding a small crypto portfolio, and even maintaining an in-ground pool. By early 2025, after a series of layoffs and what he calls “automation pressure,” his position was eliminated and never replaced.>“I thought it was temporary,” he says. “Then the interviews stopped.”>After months of searching and burning through savings, Derek lost the house, liquidated his remaining assets, and eventually entered the shelter system. The photo shows him walking back from a local facility, carrying what he calls his “daily kit.”>“I keep it simple now,” he says. “Everything I own fits in one bag.”>He still checks job boards when he can.>“Mostly out of habit. It's so cold outside.”
>>62099002>>62099005One of my friends in high-school became a tax and business accountant. I've been his customer for 14 years. That's not changing. He does a great job.
>>62101923Yeah but why? That’s your personal choice. A lot of people do their own taxes now I am sure.
>>62100500>because your old means you can’t have fun I’m 32. A lot of shit I thought was funny at 12 is still funny today. It was funny when I was 22. It will be when I’m 60.
>>62101881KekAccountants as a whole are affected and only those with most to lose deny it.
>>62101864>All my friend’s wives did their own accounting/tax this year >trusting your wife with financesNGMIAlso bullshit on knowing that many people with “complicated” taxes. People with actually complex tax needs and structure are ok paying $2000 to do it correctly, because they have plenty of money. You do fucking tax returns, not estate planning. You aren’t that special. >>62101871I’m former big 4. Still know a couple people who work there. Where I work now gets audited by my old firm (didn’t jump ship there just coincidence). I haven’t heard anyone in big 4 complaining. It replaces their jeet teams which is awesome. We aren’t even trying to replace accountants at my work, nor at a couple public companies I know higher level accounting/finance staff in. For fucks sake, Copilot still sucks with excel.
>>62101959> People with actually complex tax needs and structure are ok paying $2000 to do it correctlyYoure right but rich people like saving money. Last week, my dad just gave me $6000. Then when he needed to pay $100 to get a new dust bin for a vacuum, he said it was too expensive. Their wives are accounting and similar too. lol. That’s why. > Also bullshit on knowing that many people with “complicated” taxesBro I am 30+ and when I was 10 years old, all my friend’s parents were retired in a top 1% neighborhood. You are literally still working class talking mad shit.
>>62101959Also, the taxes arent “complex.” But tedious cause rich people are very well diversified and etc and blah blah and income from many different countries and blah blah. When I was a kid, my taxes was simple.
>>62101959> We aren’t even trying to replace accountants at my work, nor at a couple public companies I know higher level accounting/finance staff in.Your company might not be but companies that hire firms might just get a dedicated team to do it with ai or something similar. No wonder you are so defensive, you’re like deep into accountant. Idk why I keep replying to you, you clearly are defensive about it.
>>62101959> many people with “complicated” taxes. People with actually complex tax needs and structure are ok paying $2000 to do it correctly, because they have plenty of money. They were okay with it until they discovered ai lol. Stop being so defensive.
>>62101959> We aren’t even trying to replace accountants at my work,Its all about cost savings. If small and medium and large companies realize it is possible to use ai, they will just find ways to cut costs. Get their own accounting department to do it? And lay off a few of them? Its such common sense that your defensiveness is hilarious. Like okay, lets say ai was overblown and only 10% of all accoutants and similar roles are replaced, that is pretty crazy. And even you said one accountant can do 10,100, 1000 more clients now. Then I replied with clients doing it themselves. Anyways, I am dropping out my job asap aka whenever I feel like it.
>>62101981>>62101987>>62101995>>62101999>4 immediate posts>calls me defensive I think I hit a nerve
>>62102680I have things to say.
>>62102034>Its all about cost savings. If small and medium and large companies realize it is possible to use ai, they will just find ways to cut costsIt is. And I even included that when I said it’s replacing their offshore teams. Why send a 10-Q tieout to ranjeesh in India who fucks up if it’s not literally the exact same as prior quarter, if you can get AI to give it to you in minutes rather than the next day. >cutting 10% Yeah I see that happening in time. Might be a year or two or might be five or ten. What I’m commenting on is someone saying “a tiny fraction of the workforce needed”. That’s implying we only KEEP 10% or so. Not cut 10%. >And even you said one accountant can do 10,100, 1000 more clients nowNo, I did not.
Any white collar job that involves the government as a customer is safe, as modern governments are>inept at everything, including automation>addicted to spending
>>62102686Non of them worthwhile. Hence you immediately responding and raging like a triggered faggot
>>6210268710-Q/10-K is such a fucking nightmare and so highly visible. If you fuck up you’re getting hit with high fees. Maybe your operational accounting team getting hit but financial reporting is too close to the execs.
>>62099002No, can't say I have
I don't actually know what an accountant is
>>62102741Well now you never will because they don’t exist anymore
Two of my closest friends lost their programming jobs in the last year and a half and haven't been able to find work despite trying.One took his life by driving head-on into traffic (the driver of the truck he hit survived). The other is homeless and destitute.It's a strange time to be alive.
>>62102709I said 10-Q tieout. Not the preparation of the report by management. Not the review by external audit. The tieout is just a tick and tie exercise to make sure everything agree. Like is the current version saying prior period is $xxx actual match what was filed the prior period. 99.9% of the time it does, so why waste actual human time on that. Firms have been sending that type of shit to pajeets in India for a decade or more. Now that remedial work can be replaced by AI (eventually at least).Otherwise I completely agree with you that because of the regulatory requirements and potential legal issues, financial reporting teams are fine. Same with FP&A teams. It’s the AR/AP, payroll, etc that can be automated. I’m the former so that’s why I’m not concerned.
>>62099002Good! You smug cocksuckers need to suffer!
>>62099104well i've been fired over two dozen times & I am an accountant. blame the simpy culture
