CA's fleeing

I'll sum up my prior opinions and ideas on the subject that most accounting professionals brush under the rug for unknown reasons.

Last week I listened to three extremely famous Nepalese entrepreneurs who spoke about their entrepreneurial journey of highs and lows that led them to eventually solve the most difficult problems existing in societies today (full video at the end of the article). I then reclaimed how important it was for my professional community to hold ourselves accountable, transparent, ethical and finally responsible for pushing the act of imagination beyond merely having vested interests over the traditional career trees of accounting and finance and going from problem solving to setting goals and creating something out of nothing. But the case of CA’s fleeing is still self evident. Having that lateral bent of mind, avoiding overcrowding, and finding dream jobs should not be undermined nor undervalued because we all can account for opportunity cost and do some cost-benefit analysis of our present state of as usual vs as expected. In this context, we should also understand that resisting is not a boon. You cannot suppress what’s going on inside of you and if the tepid economic growth (downgraded by IMF and World Bank to 4 point something percentage) is alarming and pinches you, your pocket, your holistic growth, then suppression is an evil. You cannot fight economic growth. It just affects you. That’s it. So, if you are looking for lateral opportunities nationally or internationally that cycle must be complete, anyhow. Fresh graduates may be thinking of growing with the company, new market outlooks, gaining fresh perspectives in sectors of interest and stepping outside of comfort zone and in every case the five or so years of fighting and crying for that coveted certificate has some created some urgency to ask - what next? Ask yourself - are you overlooking global opportunities? Are you stalled? Are you interested to take formidable career risks? Is this not your thing? Is that the feeling you are getting now? Act, act on the power of now. Nothing is more fulfilling then trying till you make it to where you want to go.

Once I asked my friend amidst a long and deep conversation about management science and the need for having management museums so that professionals like me and you can relate what we learnt than just treating our degrees as a weapon of legacy dreams. He got dumbfounded. I blamed myself for talking stupid. This is the reality of our profession. We are not motivators, we are not influencers, we are not change makers, we are not great educationalists, we are not even good consultants. So what are we? We need to clean up the mess of raucous professionalism and plant seeds for pursuing the art and science of future accountants who embrace technology, creativity, intelligence and network to build a strong economy and speak against corruption. But the rate of transformation change, inclination towards lateral bent, slope of learning curve today does not portray the need to turn legacy into modern professionalism.?

Where lies the problem? Is it the flee?

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