Young accountants: more space and opportunities in the consulting business

The CambiaMenti starting with concrete and feasible proposals, to give young professionals, particularly chartered accountants, the opportunity to specialise and work in areas of interest, such as corporate crisis law and auditing in local authorities and investee companies. During the 20th Forum of young chartered accountants, organised in Civitanova Marche by the National Union of Young Chartered Accountants and Accounting Experts, open discussion with legislators and administrators.

"The aim is to create more opportunities for young professionals and improve the effectiveness of the system through generational turnover," says Francesco Cataldi, president of the Union. "The proposals, addressed to the political world, converge in the direction of making the system more open, efficient and meritocratic, valuing the new generations as a strategic lever for the modernisation of the public administration and the economic system." A line that finds favour with the president of the National Council, Elbano de Nuccio, who claims the work to give centrality to chartered accountants in the seats of politics.

The Union proposes reserving a quota of under 43s in local authority auditing boards, merging the first and second tiers for appointments. It calls for a review of the draw mechanism, which is entrusted to an obscure algorithm that sometimes produces paradoxical results. Finally, the criteria for remuneration should be reviewed, which cannot be anchored solely to the number of inhabitants, but must take into account the complexity of the task.

Politics agreed: the president of the Marche region, Francesco Acquaroli; Raffaele Nevi, Forza Italia deputy; Marco Fioravanti, mayor of Ascoli Piceno and president of the Anci national council.

Business crisis law, after the Insolvency Directive, has become a testing ground for accountants, who are called upon to work on several levels - from negotiated settlement to procedures - to enable companies to emerge from insolvency. Yet, even for crisis law, young people come up against two obstacles: seniority requirements for registering and experience requirements for carrying out assignments. The Union calls for the compulsory introduction of young professionals in working groups and technical commissions, the recognition of experience in shadowing, and the adjustment of minimum fees for judicial liquidations without assets. The proposals also include a national long list of young experts trained in the Crisis Code, preference protocols for firms that value young people and a reward mechanism for first appointments.