No. After you read the links I will post here you will change your mind. If you think there is shortage in accounting academia you are wrong. The accounting academia is a cesspool full of snakes.
After reading the spreadsheets today I am very sad, much more than I thought I would be after someone sent me an email with the link to read and accused me of being one of the creators of this “shit”, according to him. I read it through for almost 30 minutes, and I said this is not me, I do not want this, I have never worked for this even if unaware of what was going on. The first impression I had was the employment system in the accounting academia is not based on merit, but I am neither the inspirer nor the creator, much less the supporter of this system. I may call it corrupt, but I would rather call it an anti-value system created as an awful tradition year after year. I am convinced that this should not continue and should be stopped today, right now, because we should not consciously support a system that goes beyond the illegal. This system does not promote value, the academic value, which means neither more nor less but scientific research and teaching. Everything else that is used to hire is just bs(s) that the department chairs use to hire friends, family, or part of their network. This is nepotism, it is harmful and we at the accounting academia may have reached the bottom of the sewage sludge without even realizing it. No one owes any professor, AP, or assistant to be comfortable with the new hire. This is an academic institution, not your comfortable sofa at home. I distance and disengage myself from any kind of wrong or corrupt practice. I understand that I inadvertently fell into wrong decisions, but I have decided I will no longer be on the wrong side and I apologize to all those who may have suffered from me.
OK, keep calm. Have a deep breath and stop insulting. I am not in the market, and I know who posted the list. We don’t know who y’all are, but I know whom you are going to work for. Now, I know I shouldn’t have started this profession and I have struggled a lot to get to where I am now. I have sacrificed everything, my life, my time, my family, just to get to a school I wanted to get when a rookie, and because I saw other people getting good placements because of the connections and pedigree. I know how almost impossible it is for good jmcs to get e decent placement. I will be retiring next year, not because I am old, not at all, just tired of the system. I simply wanted to let you know I lost my parents during the pandemic last year, and I was not able to help them cause the system sent me a thousand miles away and I couldn’t travel, couldn’t get there despite knowing they were going to die.
I have been studying the accounting Ph.D. market for nine years now, and I can say the findings are more than troubling. When I entered the market seven years ago, I was kind of psychologically prepared I wasn't going to get a job in an "hr" school, although I had 2 RRs and three working papers. Last year I moved out US as I couldn't get to a school that would appreciate my 6A pubs and two working papers. The idea that if you perform better and publish to get to "hr" schools doesn't work. The idea that you work hard during the Ph.D. program will not help you, but your advisor who will get more papers thanks to you and would not be able or helpful for your placement. Long story short, the placement depends on network, bias, nepotism, and race.
if there is even a single person who believes there is a job market in this profession than he/she is so naive! There might be market for teaching or low payimg schools, but it has never been a job market for high paying schools thus none from "midtier" universities has ever made it up or maybe he/she put enormous efforts to get up there. This is the truth, and as such and part of "all truth it passes through three stages: First, it is rid...See full post