There is a disconnect between job duties and required years of experience.

As a career degreed accountant, I have found an increasing number of job postings that list the duties and/or tasks of the job to be a contradiction to the years of experience required for the job. Typically, I am seeing accounting jobs require 3 - 5 years of experience or less but the job duties are clearly for someone who has 10+ years of experience. I say that because, from my experience of over 25 years in the accounting profession, you don't get the exposure or the assigned responsibility of certain higher level accounting tasks until you know how to do the simple stuff, i.e. GL recons, bank recs, customer/vendor setups, and general COA (chart of accounts) management.
This is disturbing to me and can only be interpreted to mean that employers want a job candidate to have the experience of a veteran accountant in considerably fewer years, ostensibly to pay a lower salary. To the folks who passed the CPA exam 2 yrs out of college, please understand that I am not minimizing your accomplishment, but I am letting you know that you have yet to see all aspects of the accounting process and you still may be required to work in the trenches for a while. Of course if all a prospective employer wants is your license, then you'll get the job before I will. I guess it's truly a buyer's market out there.