“90% of an accountant’s day is tax compliance.”
Really? In my corporate accounting days, 90% of my time was spent making sure nobody was stealing parts and supplies through taking sometimes daily inventories, running credit checks on customers, billing customers electronically, collecting bad debts, making sure bills were paid on time, preparing reports for SEC compliance, preparing reports for management and shareholders, handling acquisitions, and preparing reports for credit purposes. The tax department was always the smallest part of the group, usually factored out, and of the least concern.
That was your experience, not everyone else’s.