Rewrite this AI and keep the quotes the same: "Salaries are low in comparison to other business majors... student see the major and the work as more challenging with not enough reward," notes Baranoff (Kenney, 2024), reflecting on the perception of accounting among students. Showalter attributes the principal reasons for decreases in accounting enrolments directly to the accounting firms, including, "a lack of increases in starting salaries, the inability to leverage technologies and the lack of a diversity of clear career paths to success," (Kenney, 2024). Weirich adds that, "the attitude of students and the perception of the profession has changed due to the negative publicity to the press as to the culture of long hours and low pay as compared to other job opportunities," (Kenney, 2024). Bagranoff also observes, "We have not noticed any changes in demographics the difference is more a byproduct of the learning environment during the pandemic," (Kenney, 2024), indicating a potential influence of the pandemic on accounting enrollment. Weirich discusses strategies to enhance the accounting pipeline, such as working jointly with practitioners to discuss career opportunities and work-life balance