About r/Accounting
In its own words:
Primarily for accountants and aspiring accountants to learn about and discuss their career choice. Advice and questions welcome.
Community guide
r/Accounting (#817, about 1.3 million subscribers) is oriented around: Primarily for accountants and aspiring accountants to learn about and discuss their career choice. Advice and questions welcome. Recent activity samples show 109 posts/day in recent samples (~89% text, ~7% image, ~3% video). Public rules we collected include: Respectful and civil; Self-promotion, advertising, or solicitation; Ethics; Duplicative posting.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Self-promotion and ads are limited—read those rules before linking your own work. Match posts to: Respectful and civil; Self-promotion, advertising, or solicitation; Ethics; Duplicative posting.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; collected snapshots can lag. Common flairs in samples include: Career, Advice, Discussion, Off-Topic. Volume is high—clear titles help.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Apr 4, 2009, which makes it 17 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 1,645 subscribers (+0.13%). It sits just behind r/ireland (#816) and ahead of r/ask (#818) in our ranking.
What sets r/Accounting apart
r/Accounting is far more text-driven than most big subreddits: 89% of its recent posts are text posts, against a median of 35% across the Top 100. For its size it is unusually busy: about 83.8 new posts a day per million members, more than 95% of the Top 100. It is also one of the faster-growing big communities: its 0.81% gain since Sep 19, 2026 beats 91% of the Top 100. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (02:00 UTC) sees about 5.1× as many posts as the quietest (08:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/Accounting went up from 1,285,813 to 1,296,168 subscribers (+10.4K, +0.81%). That is about 235 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/Accounting talks about
Across 552 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “job”, “advice”, “cpa”, “tax” and “work”. Other frequent themes are career, accountant, canada, accountants, public and firm. Recurring phrases include “grant thornton”, “tax preparer”, “sant rampal” and “cpa exam”. By format, 89% are text posts, 7% are images and 3% are videos.
Popular post flairs: Career (74), Advice (72), Discussion (55), Off-Topic (12), Homework (7), Resume (6).
Activity and best time to post
r/Accounting gets about 110 new posts a day. The public archive holds 493,741 posts and 5,454,924 comments in total, about 11.0 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Tuesday (124 posts) and the quietest was Sunday (79). Posting peaks around 02:00 UTC and is lowest around 08:00 UTC.
Rules of r/Accounting
The moderators of r/Accounting list 4 rules. In short:
- Respectful and civil
- Self-promotion, advertising, or solicitation
- Ethics
- Duplicative posting
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/Accounting and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many subscribers does r/Accounting have?
r/Accounting has 1,296,168 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #817 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 10,355 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/Accounting created?
r/Accounting was created on Apr 4, 2009, so it has been around for 17 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Jun 27, 2009.
Is r/Accounting still active?
Yes. r/Accounting gets about 110 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 493,741 posts and 5,454,924 comments. In a sample of 552 recent posts we counted 493 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/Accounting?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Tuesday and the quietest Sunday, and most posts arrive around 02:00 UTC, with the fewest around 08:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/Accounting?
The community describes itself as: “Primarily for accountants and aspiring accountants to learn about and discuss their career choice. Advice and questions welcome.” Recent post titles often mention job, advice, cpa, tax and work. Most posts are text posts (89%).
Is r/Accounting SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/Accounting as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/Accounting?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/Accounting accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos, galleries and polls enabled. It has 4 posted rules, starting with: “Respectful and civil”; “Self-promotion, advertising, or solicitation”; “Ethics”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/Accounting?
Communities with similar topics include r/careerguidance (5.1M), r/cscareerquestions (2.4M), r/FinancialCareers (1.8M), r/ApplyingToCollege (1.4M) and r/learnprogramming (4.4M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/Accounting.