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    April 03, 2019

    Accounting When the CPA exam gives you a bullshit TBS

    When the CPA exam gives you a bullshit TBS

    Posted: 03 Apr 2019 01:32 PM PDT

    When you are so over everything ��

    Posted: 03 Apr 2019 07:12 PM PDT

    Some of you may relate in a way or another

    Posted: 03 Apr 2019 05:06 AM PDT

    Ok, i actually need to work now

    Posted: 03 Apr 2019 04:52 AM PDT

    When you open a monster workpaper and it somehow doesn’t crash your laptop.

    Posted: 03 Apr 2019 06:57 AM PDT

    Tomorrow is my last day in public.

    Posted: 03 Apr 2019 12:35 PM PDT

    Tomorrow is my last day in public accounting! Have been an auditor for about 3.5 years and I am so excited to be out. Worked 2,964 hours last year and I'm just ready to be done. Not sure what I'm going to do with myself at a 9-5 job, but I'm ready to not track ever minute of every day. Don't know if this is the right place to share this, but I figured you all would understand.

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    Not all partners and managers are assholes....

    Posted: 03 Apr 2019 06:43 PM PDT

    I feel like I read a lot of posts here that talk about how their partners and managers suck so I thought I'd share a feel good story about something that happened at my firm today.

    I work at a relatively small firm, there's about 35-40 people in my office. We got a little heavier on tax work this season so we hired an intern and showed her how the prep basic 1040's to help with the workload.

    One of our partners is religious about wearing her AirPods. Today she didn't have her charger for them and she saw the the new intern had a charger at her desk and asked if she could charge them for her.

    I don't know how this happens, but apparently the intern stood up, knocked them on the floor, stepped on them, and somehow cracked them. She immediately started crying assuming she was gonna get fired.

    She found the courage to go tell the partner what happened, while sobbing hysterically. Now this particular partner isn't a "mean" or "aggressive" person, but she'll tell you when you're in the wrong. She was uncharacteristically not mad at the intern, maybe because it's a tiny 19 year old female who was already crying.

    Well after lunchtime, my partner came back to the office with a brand new pair of AirPods for herself, and for the intern who broke them.

    Thought I'd share. I know they all seem stressed this time of year, but they aren't all assholes. Anyone else have a similar story to share?

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    How I think the auditors feel when we don’t have all the PBC items prepared for them

    Posted: 03 Apr 2019 09:04 AM PDT

    It is my second year of tax season. For those who don't know yet, this is the worst part of tax season.

    Posted: 03 Apr 2019 03:11 PM PDT

    The people.

    Obviously the clients who don't reply or get back the info needed.

    But especially your coworkers and bosses. Personally I can handle all the work load and the stress that comes with it. But my loud coworkers is what is actually giving me a headache. In their defense, they have harder work load than I do. But they have been doing for so much longer. It seems that every little thing that is annoying they complain about. ITS BUSY SEASON! No shit there are going to be problems. You either deal with it and move on, or ignore it and hope it fixes itself. You do not have to complain about it.

    Am I the only one that feels this way? I haven't been on Reddit as much due to the work.

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    Chart of Hours I Worked this Busy Season

    Posted: 03 Apr 2019 09:35 AM PDT

    It would clearly defined who I am and what I have been doing as an emancipated female business owner

    Posted: 03 Apr 2019 01:36 PM PDT

    Quitting substances as a professional, any advice?

    Posted: 03 Apr 2019 06:50 PM PDT

    Maybe some people might recognize my nickname or my posts from previous months-years. I've basically battled alcoholism and drug addiction for years, currently 25. At the same time I've progressed my accounting career, to the point I managed to get myself a high paying job and a good position at 25, despite my flaws as a substance abuser (ex-big 4 senior too). I have not even started this job yet, I am starting in some weeks. I realize I am no longer a kid, I stopped being a kid ages ago, I am 25 now.

    Any advice from anyone with a similar problem, or any advice in general? I'm not new to recovery or sobriety, I've been sober for 6 months (or less, multiple times), I've been to rehab, I've been to 12 step groups but I decided 12 step groups isn't my thing (I am a strong atheist and I am introverted and hate groups of people). What kept me sober for so many months last year was discipline: lifting nonstop and practicing instruments nonstop. The problem is, I got bored at some point, accidentally returned to my old ways; got fired too, got more depressed. But right now I'm not willing to "accidentally return" ever again.

    To be more specific, I'm physically dependent to weak opiates, benzos (Clonazepam) and alcohol. I use other shit too not worth mentioning because they don't cause physical dependence or withdrawal symptoms (mainly high quality weed and acid). My benzo addiction is what worries me the most, because I actually suffer from the symptoms that benzos cure. My doctor advice me to keep taking a low dose for life, but I want to stop taking it because getting a RX for it is very complicated for me but that's another story, but the withdrawals are very harsh. FOR REFERENCE, at my worst I was also addicted to uppers, specially cocaine and ritalin, and I was a 24/7 fiend, even while working, specially during my last two years of Big 4; now I'm just using downers and psychedelics.

    So basically I have a couple of weeks to wean off the worst symptoms of withdrawals, I'll just smoke all the weed I have left till I run out (which also helps for the withdrawal symptoms), and I'll keep taking a low dose of benzo to avoid serious withdrawal symptoms, like seizures (I've had a seizure before for quitting cold turkey). I'm seriously discussing this with my doctor (addiction psychiatrist) on Friday, I've been lying to him, pretending to be clean just to accumulate more Clonazepam. He might get mad and might kick me as a patient, even though this is public healthcare in my case. By the time I start this new job, I'll be clean of everything except benzos.

    I actually feel committed to it this time. Turning 25 recently hit me very hard, I see that I am 99% likely not to get married or have any children because of my lifestyle. I am very likely to have some degree of organ damage, also checking this with my shrink.

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    U.K. Lawmakers Propose ‘Structural Break-Up’ of Big Four Accounting Firms

    Posted: 03 Apr 2019 07:23 PM PDT

    Accounting students after an exam

    Posted: 03 Apr 2019 05:13 PM PDT

    How to appear non threatening to your staff

    Posted: 03 Apr 2019 09:50 AM PDT

    When you check your schedule and you've been assigned "learning opps"

    Posted: 03 Apr 2019 12:52 PM PDT

    Me studying FAR

    Posted: 03 Apr 2019 01:11 PM PDT

    Dallas Big 4 Starterpack

    Posted: 03 Apr 2019 03:16 PM PDT

    Would my career be over?

    Posted: 03 Apr 2019 07:58 PM PDT

    But seriously, if I went to a big regional firm like Blumshapiro or CohnReznick after college instead of a big 4, what sort of limitations would I be putting on my career?

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    I love coming to work early to sit through a 4 hour webcast teaching me how to do shit I learned six months ago

    Posted: 03 Apr 2019 10:59 AM PDT

    Like thank fuck I spent an hour and a half learning how to draw a sample of AR balances for confirmations or I would be fucked for the upcoming busy season

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    Should I call out my manager? I’m a recent college grad, Staff Accountant doing tax/audit. He asked me to work Mon-Sun from March-April, said yes. Recently asked me to come in at 6 AM till the end of busy season, said yes. Already work 55-60 hrs per wk. What more does he want? Small CPA firm~14 ppl

    Posted: 03 Apr 2019 05:34 PM PDT

    Is it possible to go on a rather long unpaid sick leave without getting laid off?

    Posted: 03 Apr 2019 06:42 PM PDT

    Last late December, I got hired by a Big 4 and started in audit two weeks after. I was thrown right into busy season, which was fine but I'd broken my heel two days before I started the new job. HR pressured me to start on the agreed date, so I did because I didn't want to be without a job (I'd already put my two weeks in at my previous job).

    Since then, I've been limping/jumping around, extremely drugged up and It's been an absolute nightmare working 60-90 hour weeks while in severe pain. I can't do survival activities like grocery shopping, laundry, cleaning, etc on my own, so I'm constantly stressed out. I've been to multiple doctors who've told me to stay off it or walk on my toes, but I get excruciating pain whenever I try to walk so I should be in bed..

    Busy season is pretty much over, and I'm sure I'll get a negative performance review because I caught the flu last week and worked from home. Because of my injury, I haven't ever picked up dinner orders (my team resented that because I + other associates should've taken turns). Have you ever heard of anyone going on an unpaid sick leave? I really want to go on one until I'm healed (maybe for 1-2 months, possibly longer)? I know it sounds crazy but I can't afford to keep going to the doctor in the U.S. - I have a high deductible so I've been paying out of pocket, and an MRI here is $2500 (it'd be out of pocket). My family's overseas and my aunt came to visit me yesterday for a few weeks, and she suggested that I go back to where my family is to recuperate and get treatment (it's much cheaper - an MRI is 100 USD without insurance) instead of risking permanent injury.

    I don't want to be without a job though. If I take the leave I think I may get canned. The doctor said that the X-ray came back negative but I've been seeing a diff doctor every time. I'm not sure why I'm still in pain. Please help.

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    What’s your experience working at a mid-tier firm vs the Big 4?

    Posted: 03 Apr 2019 06:09 PM PDT

    So I'm a senior accounting student and we're starting to get office visits and my friend even got an offer from RSM. Anyway, it seems as though people feel "doomed" if they don't get a Big 4 internship from the start. It's starting to scare me because I only got interviews from mid-sized (and a bit bigger than mid-sized) firms, no Big 4s though. Anyone work for both sizes of firms and have some insight?

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    As a Manager is worth it to go on stress leave?

    Posted: 03 Apr 2019 08:15 PM PDT

    For some context, I'm currently a client-facing manager at multi-national firm and the situation is getting pretty grim due to extensive offshoring and attrition. There's no relief in sight (hiring freeze and plans for more offshoring), which is one of the main reasons I'm considering stress leave in the first place.

    My main worries are:

    1. Not knowing how my team will cope, since we're already squeezed pretty hard. They will get blasted by the client and upper management

    2. I would continue interviewing, but not sure what the process would be if I were to get an offer while on leave (seems like there's no way to avoid ruining relationships/burning bridges)

    3. Coming back to an environment that's in even worst shape

    Ideally, I would just want to get laid off or find a new job, but I'm close to a breaking point and the stress is adversely impacting my confidence during interviews prolonging my stay in this hell-hole of an office.

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