Deficit of Accountants in Smaller Accountant Companies

By: Together Abroad 07-03-2017 2:49 PM
Categories: * Daily employment news,

Smaller accounting firms fear a shortage of accountants. The smaller companies cannot often meet the new requests of the students’ educational curriculum, so students will opt for a training place at larger firms, as written by Het FinancieeleDagblad (FD), according to a survey of an umbrella organization SRA.

Smaller accounting firms that control small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) may not provide the required number of training hours. The minimum number of hours required was increased from a thousand to fifteen hundred hours as of the start of 2016.

Of the 360 firms that are members of the umbrella organization, 228 completed the survey.

Jobs Deficit

66% of respondents believe that their own companies have insufficient controlling tools to cope with the increased number of practice hours of the students.

Some 85% think that students are forced by the new regime to opt for an internship in larger offices outside the SME segment. Consequently in the future there will be insufficient SME accountants.

Lawsuit

The results of the survey will be used in a lawsuit brought by the Commission against the umbrella organization SRA Attainment Accountants (CEA).
The CEA is responsible for the provision of training. The case is on the 14th of March.

Source: http://www.nu.nl

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