If you’re at a company and there are 3 senior accountants and only one manager role to be promoted to, as a senior accountant would you want to jump and find a diff job since it seems like the controller prefers one senior over the other or stick it out and see?

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There's literally only 1 manager role? Or just on your specific team? People move across accounting/finance teams all the time.

If the company is that small, I'd leave regardless for more growth.

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One manager role, makes sense, better to work for a larger company. I’m trying to give my direct reports some guidance.

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