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    February 02, 2021

    Accounting It’s my own fault

    It’s my own fault

    Posted: 02 Feb 2021 11:01 AM PST

    On a post asking what major they regret. LOL

    Posted: 02 Feb 2021 08:24 AM PST

    Living the dream

    Posted: 02 Feb 2021 05:31 PM PST

    I finally did it!!

    Posted: 02 Feb 2021 06:09 PM PST

    In 2017, I decided on Accounting as a major and that I wanted to be an accountant for the federal government.

    Well after 3.5 years of struggle, I finally did it!. After years of: bad grades, family trouble, financial troubles, bad break ups, legal troubles, mental health battles, physical disability issues,numerous public and industry internships, a 33k entry level job, hundreds of interviews, and dozens of interviews, I FINALLY DID IT!

    I just finished my 2nd day as a Government Accountant and I couldn't be happier.

    I got through all of the struggles, all of the bad exam grades, rejections, self-doubt.

    I did it!!! And so will you!

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    So, my professor seems to teach like she's looking for her parents killer.

    Posted: 02 Feb 2021 06:26 AM PST

    Trying to follow some of these PY workpapers.

    Posted: 02 Feb 2021 04:37 PM PST

    Snipers only unless you on track for CPA

    Posted: 02 Feb 2021 02:11 PM PST

    Thanks r/accounting

    Posted: 02 Feb 2021 04:07 PM PST

    It has officially been a year since I left public accounting.

    Sometimes I wonder if I made the right decision but then all I have to do is visit this subreddit for 5 minutes to remind me why I quit.

    May you all make it through another busy season with your sanity in tact.

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    Big 4 marketing department switching the names up to keep them guessing ��

    Posted: 02 Feb 2021 12:04 PM PST

    "Just follow PY and you'll be fine."

    Posted: 02 Feb 2021 07:44 PM PST

    Uh oh

    Posted: 02 Feb 2021 06:09 PM PST

    Since we are sharing which keys we hate

    Posted: 02 Feb 2021 02:51 PM PST

    [Rant - Bad words used] Are new hires/interns supposed to be this stupid?

    Posted: 02 Feb 2021 04:57 PM PST

    Initiating Rant in 3...2...1...

     

    Holy fucking shit, last senior left alive at the firm and in charge of making sure all these new hires/interns know what the fuck they are doing while reviewing some their work. I handle the majority of their questions while the manager reviews the reconciliations and financial statements. I am always available whenever they have questions and try to help them as best as I can. I usually spend about half of my day instructing them and reviewing their work while providing constructive feedback on any issues. I have never yelled or cussed in front of them since I feel as though that's a dumb fucking way to teach someone (had a manager who would constantly yell at me for dumb shit and I always though he was the stupid fucking prick to ever have existed).

     

    I have been training the majority of these fuckwads since September and they are still making the same mistakes they made during their first week here and I'm not talking about newbie mistakes. I literally just had one who apparently has accounting experience call me and ask how do they reconcile an account they were supposed to be reconciling since October (manager waited until today to review this account). When I asked them to provide me their notes they have been taking since October they sent me over 50 pages of chicken shit that's barley legible. The sad part is this isn't even the worst of the worst, see below for more issues.

     

    1. It took me 3 months to get the concept of a debit and credit to the mentioned employee above and they still ask me to verify if they are "debiting" the right accounts from time to time.

     

    2. A different new hire called me on my personal phone at 2 in the morning to discuss a hypothetical situation they had and wanted to get my input as to whether or not their line of reasoning on resolving it was correct. After listening to them explain it for about 20 minutes I turned off my phone and went back to bed.

     

    3. New hire picked up the phone for one of our major clients (that only I handle) and started telling them that they are going to be the new point of contact since they were going to handle all of the work for them. I only asked them to enter in some checks... It took me 30 minutes to calm the client down and to take away the new hire's phone.

     

    4. An intern was supposed to organize receipts for items purchased with cash via an excel spreadsheet and for some reason they duplicated a lot of the receipts. Instead of totaling around $1.5k the end result was $4k. After going over the issue with them and making sure they understood the process (enter one in, verify the number, put to the side, enter new one in, verify the number, put to the side, do this until the pile is gone) they still managed to mess it up.

     

    5. While I was in a meeting with some of the partners and my manager to discuss bullshit budgeting shit an intern walked in to tell me their computer was broken and wasn't turning on and that they were going to need a new one and that they had already spent around 30 minutes looking on their phone for a better one and that this one they found was perfect and for the cost it was a total steal and that and that and that and thoagofhgaokojafdshojadfohkjadofhjao. After going to their desk and spending about 15 seconds looking at their shit it turns out they accidentally kicked the power cord and it detached from the back of the desktop.

     

    6. New hire needed to print something out and didn't know their computer was connected to the "community printer" (backup printer we have in case our personal printer is down). Proceeded to print out around 200+ pages of bullshit to test and see why it wasn't printing from his work station. One of the partners was the one to discover this and ended up throwing a fit because all of the wasted paper and ink.

     

    7. An older client brought us some paper documents we needed to scan into our database and for some unknown fucking reason when my manager asked an intern to scan and bring it back so the client can keep the originals the intern scanned it, placed it in the wrong online folder, and then shredded the documents. I still cringe about how my manager had to have the client wait while he located the documents, then came back to the client with black and white photocopies of the documents they just fucking gave us and having to explain what happened.

     

    I loathe to think of how badly this fucking busy season is going to be. The only thing keeping me sane is the fact that whether or not they extend the tax deadline past April I will be quitting regardless.

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    First week of starting CPA. Shout out to Panda express for the encouragement

    Posted: 02 Feb 2021 06:24 PM PST

    Big 4 Auditors be like...

    Posted: 02 Feb 2021 04:31 PM PST

    Anyone Else HATE F1?

    Posted: 02 Feb 2021 11:53 AM PST

    Blasphemy

    Posted: 02 Feb 2021 02:44 PM PST

    Busy season is destroying my health

    Posted: 02 Feb 2021 07:34 PM PST

    I'm currently a staff 2 at a big 4 and I'm honestly a mess right now. My head is always hurting my legs always feel weak and I feel like puking all the time. Busy season and the stress is ruining me but I'm staying because I don't have my CPA yet. How screwed am I if I wrap up my current job and leave? Will I be unemployable? I have nothing lined up right now but I can't take this any more.

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    This ad on MSN.com...

    Posted: 02 Feb 2021 12:37 PM PST

    Just another day in public

    Posted: 02 Feb 2021 10:35 AM PST

    I got out! Somehow...

    Posted: 02 Feb 2021 08:54 AM PST

    A few weeks back I made a post ranting about wanting to quit because public accounting was giving me severe depression & anxiety. Well, I resigned from my company the first week of January, stayed through 1/29, and was totally planning on just being a fucking bum for a few months until I found my next move.

    Well, somehow I landed a senior revenue accounting role in a cancer research biotech firm. Literally signed the offer letter the last day of my former job. I think it's gonna be a significant challenge to get up to speed and adapt to the new position but... I am glad to say the public accounting chapter of my life has been closed. Hopefully permanently.

    I guess there's always the fear that I actually just hate accounting as a career choice, but I'm really hoping that the new position works out! Plus it'll be nice to actually get paid fairly for the amount of work we do...

    Good luck to all of y'all who are in the midst of the grind.

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    Auditing with Python

    Posted: 02 Feb 2021 07:14 PM PST

    So at work, I got authorization to start teaching my team how to use Python. I've enjoyed using python on side projects for a while. Because my department analytics team of one is overwhelmed my thought was to teach the team python to reduce the dependency on the one person on my team that has a license to alteryx, who is also new to alteryx.

    So I'm planning on starting to document my lessons in a blog format since I already had one that I documented a few other side lessons on. If you're interested in following along here's the link

    https://dataanalysis123.weebly.com/data-analytics/python-analytic-tutorial

    My plan is to go through the ACL book I have from school and do all the lessons using python. I felt like that would be helpful to relate it to audit and because several of my coworkers have at least some exposure to ACL.

    Let me know if you're interested or have any recommendations.

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    Accountants = Calculators

    Posted: 02 Feb 2021 11:40 AM PST

    Talking to family and friends about all my years studying accounting and now the CPA. They say "I couldn't be an accountant, I'm not good in math". Or when they randomly expect you to do long division in your head because "you're an accountant ". You think I spent all this money and time in school to do what a calculator does?! Ever heard of excel??! Can anybody else relate?

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    Find out if you're an accountant

    Posted: 02 Feb 2021 06:05 AM PST
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