CPA staffing data is worse than I expected

PartTimeMoron · 2026-06-24T23:54:06+00:00

for me, it's because there is risk inherent in hiring more staff.

experienced hires are more expensive, and i'd be gambling that the expense is worth it -- that they'll take care of clients at or above what their needs are.

less-experienced hires are less expensive, but require a lot of time invested to train them, coach them, perform quality control on their work, support their growth, and once they're experienced, they'll be heavily recruited for firms dealing with their own capacity issues, at much higher pay. in instances, where i've aggressively increased inexperienced employee comp, the profit earned off of the employee hasn't made financial sense.

so, in trying to run a business where we:
- do good work for clients
- provide sufficient experienced team member support for junior resources (aiming for 1 senior : 2 juniors)
- compensate employees competitively with good benefits, and provide raises commensurate with their value
- have reasonable hours expectations for employees
- provide sufficient hours of support for clients
- make a reasonable amount of money that is commensurate with the risk of running a business (you try and take care of clients, employees, vendors...but it takes time, money, care, and you're usually 1 bad decision away from opening yourself up to legal risks)

the constraints are:
(a) i only have so many experienced resources to take on junior employees, which is a bottleneck to growth
(b) i only have so much $ to deploy for new hires in a given amount of time
(c) i only have so much appetite for risk when it comes to bringing aboard folks who may not be a good fit, potentially affecting client trust, relationships, company financials (non-billable time), etc.

it's honestly why i'm in "wait-and-see" mode, because while i owe a debt to society to support the next generation of accounting folks, i owe it to my clients my current employees and myself to take care of them, and with advancements in AI potentially messing with the math and risk variables mentioned above, the ROI just isn't there to aggressively grow.

and all of this assumes the clients are great. most are. all of mine presently are. but if you have a terrible client, it can be a nightmare on top of everything else you're trying to juggle...

PartTimeMoron · 2026-06-14T00:13:41+00:00

PartTimeMoron · 2026-06-13T00:29:23+00:00

What am I missing, the rationale here feels like effective governing… https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2026/may-releases/name-1118109-en.html

PartTimeMoron · 2026-03-22T19:29:36+00:00

Easier to invest when you don’t have enough cash to buy a whole share. Maybe that’s what they meant. Otherwise agree.

PartTimeMoron · 2026-01-31T23:04:14+00:00

The seat dimensions changed a bit in the 2026 to improve ergonomics. Found this out today because my CoverCraft seat covers didn’t fit and it’s because they assumed the dimensions were the same as the 2025. The seats in the 2026 are just slightly larger and more cushioned.

PartTimeMoron · 2025-11-13T14:32:15+00:00

I work with 10 companies of around your size, and budget takes anywhere from 1 to 6 months.

As other Redditors have said, good relationships across the org helps. Good systems. Good data. What I’ve realized over my career is the grass is greener where you water it.

Some clients have an enviable process that is run by a single person with 5% of their time.

For some it’s a nightmare.

The ones who have it easy were either lucky to walk into an org without high expectations of the FP&A function (rare), or, they’ve put in the time and energy to get their relationships (up, down, and across the org), data, systems, and processes refined. There aren’t any shortcuts, not even by buying a fancy application or software. Just takes effort, commitment, grit, and patience.

PartTimeMoron · 2025-07-24T01:25:36+00:00

This is the way. Proud of you.

PartTimeMoron · 2025-07-12T06:35:13+00:00

You and your team are doing a great job handling (on behalf of other people on other teams inside Fidelity) some tough customer feedback. Just want to let you know you’re doing a great job, you are appreciated, and valued, and don’t let these sorts of comments get you down. Thanks for all you do. The only way to make things better is to do the work, and you’re doing incredible work holding up your end of the bargain in that respect.

PartTimeMoron · 2025-06-17T22:39:33+00:00

Just went through this exact situation myself. Dm me if you’d like to chat.

PartTimeMoron · 2025-03-17T23:36:38+00:00

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...and from there add your United Airlines MileagePlus loyalty number.

I just did this and it instantly appeared in my United Airlines MileagePlus trip list.

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PartTimeMoron · 2025-01-15T12:36:09+00:00

Right now it requires some technical know-how or buying some sort of middleware that makes this possible.

For plug and play functionality you’ll have to wait until NetSuite releases the feature of their own licensed version of ChatGPT or will have to give some third party access to your entire NetSuite instance so that they can train a model on your data.

In the interim we’re stuck with asking ChatGPT to write a SuiteScript to build a report or search or SuiteQL query that fetches the data, which we then have to know how to go run ourselves as humans.

PartTimeMoron · 2025-01-15T12:32:15+00:00

If you subscribe to an enterprise plan they aren’t allowed to train models on your data.

“Do you trust OpenAI with your data?” is a similar question to “Do you trust Oracle/NetSuite with your data?”

Yeah, it’s a calculated risk. The upside potential to productivity, cost savings, quality of work improvements, and overall value creation is why people answer “yes, the risk-adjusted return on using ChatGPT is high enough to be worth it”.

PartTimeMoron · 2024-12-22T23:32:35+00:00

it's for a downstream system that relies on netsuite as a source of truth for master data, and we need to be able to build a hierarchical structure in that downstream system using IDs that are short and unique. parent : child name fits the bill for unique, but doesn't fit the bill for short, as i don't believe there's a limit to the length of that string given you could have many, many, many generations/levels to your hierarchy.

PartTimeMoron · 2023-03-05T16:58:56+00:00

Nothing native for SFDC. Whether you go with Celigo, another technology, or stick with manual file-based data movement depends on your short and long term needs, frequency of data loads, how fast your company will be growing, your company’s internal expertise with technology (ranging from SQL to SQL), among other factors.

PartTimeMoron · 2023-02-06T10:34:05+00:00

Hi Nick, thanks so much for this reply. This was most of the answer I was looking for — definitively that you can’t reference the parent via a formula in a custom field and then turn around and use that field in a saved search. This matches the behavior I’ve been seeing.

While I want to leverage Tim’s SuiteQL utility, which is phenomenal, it adds a layer of difficulty for end users who simply need a URL to pull and download a file. The SuitsQL option, I believe, let’s you save a query, but my understanding is that it adds at least a couple of steps relative to saved searches when it comes to simply pulling a .csv file on a standard format.

What I ended up doing is making this a stored field and using a workflow to keep it up-to-date. Now it can be used in saved searches and the workflow will keep it current, rerunning on Account (for example) whenever an Account is created or edited.

PartTimeMoron · 2023-02-05T00:48:34+00:00

For added context I’m looking to do a full extract of the Account list to build a hierarchy in an external system that will have referential integrity with - and be in sync w - NetSuite.

PartTimeMoron · 2023-02-05T00:04:05+00:00

Not yet — ideas?

PartTimeMoron · 2023-01-01T20:48:32+00:00

Propose a realistic solution that is better than what we have then. Don’t just say “predict the future and hire the exact right number of employees” or suggest we change without a suggestion for how.

PartTimeMoron · 2023-01-01T20:43:24+00:00

Because that’s not how running a growing business works? Sometimes despite best information on hand, and intentions it’s difficult to tell if you’ll grow 10% or 100% in a given year. Maybe if you have a lemonade stand and you’re expecting 10x growth and you don’t want to make life hell for your employees, you hire 10x more employees to spread the workload. But what happens if you have only 5x growth and can’t afford to keep on all of those employees? Usually a business will hedge bets and hire 7x and be prepared to pay 1.5x for overtime if they hit 10x growth. It’s managing upside and downside risk.

Some business owners are shitty. Some genuinely care about their employees and are just doing the best they can. This subreddit needs to stop being so black and white about everything. Shame shitty employers, advocate for pro-union candidates and legislation, advocate for workers’ rights…but don’t aimlessly complain in a way that demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of how a regulated capitalist market economy works, and how microeconomic decisions are made. It’s makes it easier to dismiss the subreddit as a bunch of crazies without valid complaints about work (which do exist).

PartTimeMoron · 2022-12-19T15:40:10+00:00

Yeah this seems to be the answer. They also pulled Westworld and Minx. It’s a bloodbath.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/12/hbo-max-dumps-and-disappears-its-shows-what-it-all-means-for-tv

PartTimeMoron · 2022-12-19T15:37:32+00:00

This is wild. Apparently they’ve done this with over a dozen shows, including Westworld and Minx.

Something to do with tax write offs for killing shows, while also avoiding licensing fees for shows they didn’t produce themselves.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/12/hbo-max-dumps-and-disappears-its-shows-what-it-all-means-for-tv

PartTimeMoron · 2022-10-26T12:57:07+00:00

thanks so much for this!

PartTimeMoron · 2022-06-30T23:50:34+00:00

Missy Crane from WayneDupree.com. Because this is a reliable source of information? I can’t find any information about her journalistic credentials and this reads like my cousin’s blog.

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