by Doug Slaybaugh | Jul 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
BEING AND BECOMING I want to share a game I play with my clients. It’s an uncomfortable game sometimes. It can also be fun. And it’s easy enough that you can play it on your own. It’s called “Who are you being?” How the Game Works The...
by Doug Slaybaugh | Aug 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
WHAT MATTERS I propose ideas to improve the experience of accounting. Burnout is an occupational phenomenon the World Health Organization characterizes as “feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion”. The accounting industry specifically is notorious for harboring...
by Doug Slaybaugh | Aug 5, 2022 | Accounting Experience
THE CPA FIRM LEVERAGE PROBLEM I propose ideas to improve the experience of accounting. Leverage has always been central to the public accounting business model. Traditionally, firms create leverage by organizing work so that more junior professionals perform much of...
by Doug Slaybaugh | Aug 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
RETHINKING CPA FIRM PERFORMANCE REVIEWS I propose ideas to improve the experience of accounting. Performance evaluations have an obvious problem: most of the information is about something that has already happened. We spend time reconstructing the past, explaining...
by Doug Slaybaugh | Aug 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
ACCOUNTING ISN’T WORTH IT OR FUN, AND IT’S NOT HIRING No, I do not believe that accounting isn’t worth it, fun, and hiring. But I thought it. I spend a lot of time thinking about the accounting profession, and sometimes those thoughts aren’t especially flattering....
by Doug Slaybaugh | Aug 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
I had lunch Monday with one of my mentors at our usual spot (Chili’s). He’s in public accounting at a national firm and is on the frontlines of The Great Resignation. He was also on the battlefield during The Great Recession. Now, instead of having to let people go,...
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