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Accounting still has a diversity problem
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Today’s Ledger:
Accounting’s diversity problem.
IFRS needs cash.
Cold air is power.
WTF of the Day🤯
Accounting Has A Belonging Problem
Accounting has spent years trying to get more people from different backgrounds into the profession. The usual fix has been scholarships, tutoring, and mentoring. That matters. A first generation student walking into accounting may need real support to get through school, pass exams, and understand a career path nobody in their family has seen up close. But the research says the profession has been staring at the wrong half of the problem. It keeps asking how to help students fit into accounting, when it should also be asking why accounting still makes so many people feel like they do not fit.
Students and young accountants still run into old networks, few role models, language barriers, and workplace cultures built around one idea of what a “real accountant” looks and sounds like. Women are already doing better than men, but they still hold far fewer senior jobs. So the issue is not talent. It is the room. Accounting can keep opening the door, but if people walk in and feel like visitors, they will not stay long enough to lead.
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What’s poppin in accounting🍿
IFRS Has A Money Problem
IFRS is doing what every nonprofit does when the math gets ugly. It is cutting costs, asking more people for money, and dressing it up as a five-year plan. The group writes the accounting rules a lot of global companies live by. Last year, its accounting board had a £5 million hole. So now IFRS wants countries, companies, investors, and anyone else who benefits from the rules to help pay for them.
It is also shrinking its two rulemaking boards to 10 people each by 2028. On the sustainability side, IFRS says funding is lined up through 2031, even as the U.S. backs away from climate rules. It is also opening a new office in Geneva in 2027. Not exactly thrilling dinner talk, but important. These are the people writing the rulebook for a big chunk of global business.
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Cold Air Is Power
In America, people fight over the thermostat like it is family money. In Japan, same thing. Almost every home has AC, which means heat is mostly an outdoor problem. You walk inside, press a button, and summer loses.
Most of the world does not have that button. Only 16% of homes in India have AC. Europe is at 23% because it spent years treating cold air like an American habit. Then the heat waves got serious. Now AC is becoming one of the clearest divides on earth.
Meme of the Day😂
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