Paul BarnhurstFP&A Expert Empowering Finance Professionals to Excel Everday

Finance talent is shrinking fast.

5 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Speaker (Paul Barnhurst) asserts that finance and accounting talent is becoming harder to find due to substantial declines in enrollment in accounting programs across US colleges. This shortage harms companies by reducing available staff for growing workloads; it advantages software vendors serving CFO offices because firms must invest in technology to maintain productivity. The speaker frames technology investment as unavoidable for companies facing staffing shortfalls.

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It's becoming harder than ever to find good finance and accounting talent. If you look at the enrollment and accounting programs across the US and colleges, it's down. And it's not down by a little bit, it's down by a lot. And so unfortunately, that's bad for companies. It maybe works in our favor as a software company selling into the office of the cfo, because all that means is you have fewer people to do the same or a greater amount of work. Then the only way you can leverage is through technology. You have to invest in technology. You have no choice. Can be a benefit for the company, but can be a challenge for you from a staffing perspective. At the same time.