The 2025 Top 100 People: Critical concerns in accounting

The pipeline problem remained top of mind for this year’s Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting, but many other issues — both directly related to the talent crisis or recently emerging — were also identified as areas to keep an eye on. 

We asked this year’s candidates, “What is the most important issue currently facing the accounting profession?” 

The Top 100 People shared what exactly is keeping them up at night, and we’ve included a selection of those responses here.

(To see the full responses of all the candidates for the Top 100, click here. And to see who the Top 100 voted the most influential, see here.)