r/Accounting: rules, karma requirements and posting culture
1.3 million accountants, students and career changers talking jobs, firms, busy season and the CPA. Text-heavy, frank, fond of memes, and closed to self-promotion.
Accounting · Open on Reddit
- Members
- 1.3M
- Created
- 2009
- New posts a day
- 121.3
- Comments on a typical post
- 7
- New posts removed
- 9%
The short answer
r/Accounting publishes no karma or account age requirement, and about 91% of recent posts stayed up. The main filter is spam detection: AutoModerator removes anything that looks like spam, and the rules ban posting your own blog, website, video channel, job ad or referral. Posts are almost all text, around 100 words, and half the titles are questions about careers, firms, pay or exams. Replies are frank, and the rules say they are allowed to be.
Who posts here
Most questions come from students, interns and people in their first few years, and they get patient answers from people with far more experience. The shorthand is assumed, though: Big 4, PA, busy season, MAcc, AR/AP and the exam acronyms are never explained. A very basic question still gets real answers, but the submit page asks you to search first, and homework questions are expected to show the work you have already done.
- Accounting students and new graduates chasing internships and first jobs.
- Staff and seniors in public accounting, mostly tax and audit, venting about hours and pay.
- Experienced people in industry: senior accountants, hiring managers, the occasional CFO.
- Career changers and bookkeepers working out how to get qualified.
- Posters outside the US asking about ACCA, the Canadian CPA and UK routes.
Karma and account requirements
What it takes to get a post through in r/Accounting.
| Karma | Not stated publicly. No rule or AutoModerator message mentions a karma figure. |
|---|---|
| Account age | Not stated publicly. |
| Spam filter | AutoModerator removes posts it reads as spam and tells you to message the moderators if it got it wrong. What trips it is not published.Mods' wording: “automatically removed because it appears to be spam” |
| Title format | Use a descriptive title, and put the country first when it matters: [US], [CAN], [AUS] or [UK].Mods' wording: “Add the country your submission is focused on to the beginning of your title, if relevant.” |
| Post flair | Optional. Fewer than half of recent posts carry one. Advice, Career and Discussion are the common ones. |
| Homework help | Allowed, with its own flair, but show your attempt even if it is wrong.Mods' wording: “Add in any work that you have already done” |
What AutoModerator says
The moderators' bot leaves these messages on posts. They are the closest thing to an official statement of the thresholds.
Your submission has been automatically removed because it appears to be spam. If you feel this is in error please message the moderators with a short message so that we may approve your submission.
What you can post
| Post type | Subreddit setting | Share of recent posts |
|---|---|---|
| Text | Allowed | 92% |
| Link | Allowed | 2% |
| Image | Allowed | 6% |
| Video | Allowed | <1% |
| Poll | Allowed | 0% |
Post flairs in use
- Advice 18%
- Career 11%
- Discussion 10%
- Off-Topic 2%
- Resume 1%
- Homework 1%
- News <1%
What happens to a new post
Where the most recent posts ended up. Sample size: 400.
- Stayed up91%
- Removed by Reddit's filters8%
- Removed by moderators1%
- Deleted by the author<1%
Reddit counts a removal by the subreddit's own AutoModerator rules as a moderator removal, so that share is not all human. Held by AutoModerator means the post is waiting in the mod queue.
What happened when we posted here
We have posted here ourselves. This is how our own posts and comments fared.
- Stayed up
- 98%
- Removed by Reddit's filters
- 2%
- Removed by moderators
- <1%
- Period
- August 2025 to August 2026
The rules, in the mods' words
- 1
Respectful and civil
Be patient with others. Keep disagreements polite. You can feel free to be "harsh", but never insulting. Personal attacks are not tolerated.
- 2
Self-promotion, advertising, or solicitation
This includes business solicitations and advertisements, referrals and job postings. Do not post your own blog, website, or video channel. We expect users to not use the subreddit for financial gain, although we will remove self-promotion regardless of whether there has been personal financial gain. This also extends to PM'ing users because of comments they made on this subreddit.
- 3
Ethics
While no advice or credentials of those giving advice have been verified or endorsed, any blatant violations of ethical rules are not tolerated.
- 4
Duplicative posting
Reposting of content within a short period of time of other posts or meta posts meming off of other posts are prohibited in order to focus threads and promote a diversity of content on the subreddit.
These are the rules as archived in January 2025. Rules change. Check the sidebar before you post.
The culture
r/Accounting is a career subreddit more than a technical one. People come to ask whether to take the offer, leave public accounting for industry, sit the CPA, or how bad busy season will be. About nine in ten posts are text and half the titles are questions.
The top of the subreddit looks different from the new queue. The highest scoring posts are image memes about reconciliations, tax deadlines and firm life, short angry vents about being chased for a status update on a Sunday, and long posts about getting fired or laid off. The everyday flow is students and juniors asking for advice, and a thread with seven comments is typical.
The running argument is whether the profession is worth it. Complaints about pay, hours and the credit hour rules sit next to posts pointing out that everyone the writer knows with the degree has a job. One member asked for unexplained negative replies to be banned because they scare off students. AI comes up as a worry about what happens to junior work.
What lands
- Memes about the job: reconciliations, extension deadlines, a hard-coded number in a spreadsheet.
- Honest career stories with specifics, such as being fired weeks into a first job or landing an internship after a career switch.
- Venting that other accountants recognise, short and unpolished.
- Questions with real numbers: years of experience, salary, firm size, credential, country.
What gets removed or ignored
- "I built" posts for your own tool, even a free one. An announcement for a free exam simulator was removed twice.
- Lessons-learned posts that are really about software you sell to firms.
- The same question posted twice in a short window, which the duplicate posting rule covers.
- Job postings, referrals and recruiting.
- Anything AutoModerator reads as spam.
The unwritten rules
- State your country, your level and whether you are in public or industry. The advice differs a lot between them.
- Harsh is fine, insulting is not. Expect to be told to start the CPA exams now or to change firms.
- Cynicism about firms and hours is the default tone, and much of it is humor.
- Comments almost never carry links, about 1 in 70. A product link in a reply reads as an ad.
Self-promotion
The rule is strict: no business solicitation, adverts, referrals or job postings, and no posting your own blog, website or video channel. It says self-promotion is removed whether or not you make money from it, and it extends to messaging members privately because of something they commented. In practice that holds. Tool announcements and a founder write-up were among the few posts moderators removed. Some product links do turn up in comments, but the rule covers those too.
How people write here
- Typical post length
- 105 words
- Typical title length
- 8 words
- Titles phrased as a question
- 51%
- Typical comment length
- 26 words
- Comments that include a link
- 1%
- Posts that carry a flair
- 44%
When people post
- 0:00 UTC, 18
- 1:00 UTC, 21
- 2:00 UTC, 16
- 3:00 UTC, 19
- 4:00 UTC, 16
- 5:00 UTC, 18
- 6:00 UTC, 9
- 7:00 UTC, 8
- 8:00 UTC, 11
- 9:00 UTC, 6
- 10:00 UTC, 4
- 11:00 UTC, 7
- 12:00 UTC, 17
- 13:00 UTC, 15
- 14:00 UTC, 19
- 15:00 UTC, 28
- 16:00 UTC, 26
- 17:00 UTC, 17
- 18:00 UTC, 24
- 19:00 UTC, 23
- 20:00 UTC, 19
- 21:00 UTC, 29
- 22:00 UTC, 17
- 23:00 UTC, 13
New posts by hour of day, UTC.
Top keywords
The words and phrases that show up far more often here than in other communities, from recent posts in r/Accounting.
- accounting 175 posts
- cpa 73 posts
- accountant 58 posts
- firm 67 posts
- job 114 posts
- tax 65 posts
- public accounting 23 posts
- accounting job 16 posts
- audit 46 posts
- degree 42 posts
- staff accountant 16 posts
- accountants 22 posts
- firms 30 posts
- experience 82 posts
- career 47 posts
- internship 28 posts
- financial 36 posts
- kpmg 10 posts
- jobs 39 posts
- internships 20 posts
- finance 31 posts
- staff 27 posts
- role 40 posts
- college 31 posts
- resume 25 posts
- gpa 13 posts
- public 34 posts
- cpa exams 8 posts
- cpa exam 8 posts
- accounting experience 8 posts
- graduate 19 posts
- senior 26 posts
- accounting firm 11 posts
- currently 55 posts
- applying 24 posts
- accounting degree 10 posts
- company 51 posts
- don 58 posts
- interview 27 posts
- school 29 posts
Common questions
How much karma do you need to post in r/Accounting?
No karma or account age requirement is stated publicly. The only automatic removal the subreddit describes is for posts that appear to be spam, and it invites you to message the moderators if yours was caught by mistake. About 91% of recent posts stayed up.
Can I promote my accounting software, blog or firm in r/Accounting?
No. The rules ban business solicitation, adverts, referrals and job postings, and say not to post your own blog, website or video channel. Self-promotion is removed even when there is no financial gain, and messaging members about their comments is covered as well. Posts announcing a tool the poster built were removed in our sample.
How should I title a post in r/Accounting?
Be specific about what you are asking, and put the country in square brackets at the start if it matters, for example [US] or [UK]. The submit page also asks you to search before posting a question. The typical title is about eight words and half of them are questions.
Can students ask for homework or career help in r/Accounting?
Yes. There are Homework, Resume, Career and Advice flairs, and students and interns make up a large share of posters. For homework, include the work you have already done, even if you think it is wrong. For career questions, give your year, GPA range, location and what you have applied to.
Data as of October 4, 2026. Numbers come from public Reddit data (the Arctic Shift archive and GummySearch) sampled on this date. Removal share counts posts taken down by moderators, AutoModerator or Reddit's own filters. Banner and icon belong to the community. Moderators change rules without notice, so treat the sidebar as the final word.
