Accounting is the function you only notice when it breaks. Right now, it’s breaking for many U.S. companies. Roles sit open for months. Salaries keep climbing. The work doesn’t go away, though.

From AI and private equity to taxes and the CPA pipeline, these are the challenges the accounting profession will face now—and in the future. As opening day for tax season approaches, heralding the ...

For years, the warnings were treated as an occupational footnote, an ageing workforce here, a waning interest in number-crunching there. But the crisis engulfing America’s accounting pipeline has ...