[MattGaiser]

Accountants still make plenty of money. Expertise in Excel also pays well independently of that.

[confused_boner]

Many are offshoring now, PwC just had a massive layoff announcement yesterday as well

[freefaler]

Yeah, but if the number of them has shrunk 100 times even if they make 10 times more money still raises the question is it wise to become one?

[Daishiman]

The increased work capacity of an accountant means that nowadays even small businesses can do financial analysis that would not have scaled decades ago.