Tim Brackney: Don't Blame Private Equity. Blame the Accountants | Accounting Influencers

The profession's problems are the profession's own fault.

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Tim Brackney, CEO of a private equity-backed CPA and advisory firm, is challenging the widespread notion that private equity harms the accounting industry.

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"Private equity is not killing public accounting," Brackney tells Rob Brown in Accounting Influencers. "Public accounting was killing public accounting." 

Brackney says private equity could be the key to revitalizing a sector struggling with outdated models, a growing talent shortage, and the looming costs of re-tooling for artificial intelligence.