Does anyone else hear wind that their firm isn’t meeting plan? It’s like year after year after year of partners setting super unrealistic goals and then falling short

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Plan can often be a stretch goal. It is often only 1 metric If you are growing, growing at a good clip, out performed prior year - then even if you don’t meet plan, your fine.

Oh, but yes, We definitely blame the staff if we don’t meet plan. It is clearly their fault

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What is frustrating is when “sorry guys, we didn’t make plan” is the excuse for low comp if plan is supposed to be a stretch goal.

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EY is gonna easily hit $50B in revenue next year

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This wasn’t all organic growth. There were acquisitions that were supposed to have been made too; some didn’t happen. But still a stretch

Vision 20/20 any day now!

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I mean come on people. Do the partners honestly think they’re going to meet plan when they say they want to grow 12% but then only grow 8%? Should we as staff be penalized for “not meeting plan”? Do you think they giggle around a table together when they set plan?

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Hello. You’ve all been working hard. Reviews are coming. Now they start the “missing plan song” to set lower expectations for lowers salary increases and bonuses. Don’t fall for it. Actually. For those of you in audit, tax of public company look at the proxy to see how much the actual audit / tax fees are.

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