May 6, 2009
2020 Chairman and CEO, Chris Frederiksen recently presented at the AICPA Practitioners Symposium and his session on becoming an employer of choice was reviewed by Bill Carlino, Editor-in-Chief, Accounting Today.
To recruit and retain your younger employees and promote your firm as an “employer of choice,” you need to keep them continually challenged and not burden them with an ongoing workload that includes such repetitive accounting staples as tax, audit and write-up.
“There are more college students in accounting but only a small portion of them are coming into public practice,” said Chris Frederiksen, head of the 2020 Group USA, a membership organization of smaller firms, in a break-out session during the AICPA's Practitioners Symposium in Las Vegas. “We’re in a knowledge-based industry and we need smart people. The fees per partner have increased dramatically to nearly $1 million per partner. For that you need really smart people.”
