Kathryn Horton: Burnout Isn’t Inevitable in Audit | The Disruptors
Update: 2025-12-02
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Analytics, automation, and AI will reshape audit roles—and that should excite CPAs.
The Disruptors
With Liz Farr
Audit is notorious for long hours, terrible work-life balance, reliance on endless checklists, and repeating the same mind-numbingly tedious procedures year after year. But some, like Kathryn Horton, are creating a different path for success as an auditor.
At her solo firm, Kathryn K. Horton CPA, she provides outsourced audit and analytics consulting services to firms nationwide. As “auditor on call,” she steps into manager and senior manager roles for local, regional, and national firms, helping them increase capacity while reducing staff burnout.
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Another factor was demanding clients. “I realized that 80% of my stress was coming from 20% of my clients,” Horton recalls.
In her desire “to find an environment where I was happy,” where she could continue the work she enjoyed and “where I would be able to establish that work-life balance,” she realized she was the best one to create that for herself.
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