Accountants Confidence Index
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Welcome to Accounting Today's Accountants Confidence Index. The ACI, created in partnership with ADP, is a monthly economic indicator that leverages the unparalleled insight of accountants into the strength and prospects of businesses in the U.S.
The ACI is created from a monthly poll of the Accounting Today Executive Research Council, an online community of more than one thousand tax and accounting professionals, who are asked to provide their short-term and mid-term estimates of the growth prospects of their own firms, their small, midsized and large business clients, and of the U.S. economy as a whole. Their responses are weighted and averaged to produce the ACI, with the most prominence given to the forecasts for their small-business clients (with a weighting of 4), followed by midsized clients (3), large clients (2), and their own firms and the economy (1 each).
Members of the ERC are also polled about a range of other issues and topics, from best practices in running an accounting firm to their use of the latest technology, and much more, with the results reported monthly.
To learn more about the ACI, watch our video.
Industry professionals who would like to join the Executive Research Council and participate in the ACI survey can click here or visit the Accounting Today Facebook page to learn more.
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