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    Me accepting the first industry offer I get after bzy szn

    Posted: 27 Jun 2021 11:43 AM PDT

    Yup

    Posted: 27 Jun 2021 06:09 PM PDT

    Accounting jobs are everywhere and in high demand, but most of my jobs all led to one path: resentment

    Posted: 27 Jun 2021 04:17 PM PDT

    RANT: if you are an aspirational accounting student or cpa, skip this post.

    I've been in the game for 10 years now and I worked my ass off to get where I am. From working at the firm, to going to school at night, driving back at 2am to go back to work again at 8am, the hustle was real.

    I would look at my pops who works as a blue collar factory setting and or as a dishwasher back in the day, never complaining and just being happy to have a job, and I kept that mindset going. He would do 2 jobs for many years, so I figured OK so what if I do OT here and there (emphasis on here and there, maybe 45-50h is chill), if my dad can do it, so can I.

    Anyways, fast forward 10 years later, I make an OK salary, but my god am I guilt tripped into having to earn it. This week I did 75 hours, juggled so many deliverables, coordinated with external teams and dealing with day to day operational drama, and my CFO keeps moving deadlines up and forcing me to work on the weekends with random ad-hoc requests that are urgent.

    It's fucking annoying and I hate it. I know if I had wife and kids, they would hate me. There is no way to make this work if I wasn't single. Being asked to work on stat holiday, being asked to work on weekends both days to accommodate unrealistic deadlines (surprise shareholder meeting monday morning, or moving up the date for audited FS by 30 days, which was never done before in the history of company).

    Anyways - I am starting to resent this new job I took on. It has been 120 days, but I did start blurting out I hate this job around day 90. I miss the days I used to do call center jobs and the job ended when you hung up. Life seemed so simple then.

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    The Accounting Profession Is Running Low on CPAs, But There's an Obvious (and Completely Ignored) Fix For That

    Posted: 27 Jun 2021 07:33 AM PDT

    Manage your expectations, people.

    Posted: 27 Jun 2021 07:56 PM PDT

    No Sleep Gang

    Posted: 27 Jun 2021 08:38 PM PDT

    Yikes

    Posted: 27 Jun 2021 04:44 PM PDT

    Offer decision made me feel naughty! Advise???

    Posted: 27 Jun 2021 07:32 PM PDT

    I received big 4 audit intern offer and mid size forensic accounting intern offer. Went with big 4 offer, however I am interested in also trying out forensics. Was this a bad decision? I've heard getting into forensics is hard.

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    Tips to be a good senior?

    Posted: 27 Jun 2021 08:22 PM PDT

    Realize that there's varying definitions of 'good' but I'm about to senior my first engagement and I'm so stinkin nervous.

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    Pwc really going all out

    Posted: 27 Jun 2021 12:30 AM PDT

    Salary and raises

    Posted: 27 Jun 2021 09:58 PM PDT

    We just had our yearly reviews and they said I did great during the pandemic! We are a firm a California firm with about 25 people two partners in tax and two are audit partners. I just passed all four of my CPA exams as well. I'm currently an experienced associated (A2) and have been working for the firm for 2 years and make about 57k since we had no raises last year I didn't get a pay bump. The partner said we will be going over raises soon, what kinda of raises should be reasonable?

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    Wasting Career Potential?

    Posted: 27 Jun 2021 01:01 PM PDT

    Hi everyone. I'm currently a CPA and have a mix of public experience (2 years in audit) as well as industry experience (2 years in SEC reporting/monthly close). Right now, I am at a point in my life where I'm re-evaluating my career path. I'm honestly pretty lost with what I want to do. After trying public accounting, as well as industry, l have not found anything that I enjoy. I didn't enjoy the aspect of long hours/stress in public accounting and I don't enjoy how my life revolves around month end close and quarterly SEC reporting in industry. I'm contemplating on trying the federal government next as a revenue agent, but I don't want to get pigeonholed if I don't like it and I feel like I'm wasting my career potential (in regards to earnings) doing that. I never cared much about money, but I always wanted to be as successful as my dad was. He was a blue collar worker and, at the height of his career, he grossed $250k a year. I feel like I'll never be as successful as him.

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    End a Big four internship early

    Posted: 27 Jun 2021 09:13 PM PDT

    I'm interning at one of the Big four right now,because of family emergency I might have to end the internship early by a week,just wondering if that will effect my offer decision？

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    Most Useful Skill to Develop for a Accounting Career

    Posted: 27 Jun 2021 05:18 PM PDT

    Hey guys I have accepted a public accounting job offer that begins quite some time away in Fall 2022 and was looking into skills I could develop in the meantime while wrapping up my degree. Ideally I'd want to start with what would be most useful and work from there.

    So for I am considering learning the following in order:

    Learning how to automate stuff with Python

    Learning PowerBI

    Learning PowerAutomate

    Would love to hear any input on these or possibly some other options I could pursue. Thanks!

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    Real Estate Tax Exit Opps?

    Posted: 27 Jun 2021 06:19 PM PDT

    Hi guys,

    I start at Deloitte soon in their Real Estate tax group. I was wondering what could the exit opps look like after working there for maybe 2/3 years?

    Would it only be real estate firms? I see a lot of tax analyst roles, tax manger, etc. roles in other types of companies.

    Also, do you get much experience in ASC740 working in the real estate tax group? I see that is big for a lot of job experience requirements.

    Thanks!

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    Financial Due Diligence Interview

    Posted: 27 Jun 2021 07:10 PM PDT

    I am from India and have a statutory audit background. I'm applying in one of the Big 4's in there FDD department. Any tips on how and what I can prepare for the interview?

    Thanks in advance :)

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    Switching to Audit?

    Posted: 27 Jun 2021 04:23 PM PDT

    Hi,

    I'll be starting a tax associate position this fall. I recently learned that audit makes it easier to move to an accountant position in industry (what I want). I have zero interest in doing tax long term. I prefer financial accounting, but when I made the decision a few years ago, I wasn't sure if an audit role was best for me. Given that my start day was confirmed (but it is several months away), I feel like it is too late to request a potential switch (and I'm worried about how it would look like so close to the start date). How should I go about potentially making the shift after I start? Any advice would be very much appreciated!

    Thanks!

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    Jobs After Big Four Audit

    Posted: 27 Jun 2021 02:19 PM PDT

    Hey all,

    I wanted to gather some insights into what jobs might be available to a B4 audit senior/manager right after leaving public practice, but also a couple roles down the line. I know that partner track is not for me, but I am unsure what I could do next and where that might lead to.

    I see lots of general accounting roles in companies, but back end full cycle accounting does not seem appealing. What other paths have people in this subreddit trodden? I am really open to tons of different things, and would love to hear about your experiences!

    Thanks!

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    How to battle imposter syndrome?

    Posted: 27 Jun 2021 03:09 PM PDT

    Curious if you guys have any tips/advice on battling imposter syndrome. Graduated in 2017 and am now an accounting manager at a small public firm. I have a handful of clients (probably 35 businesses) and get assigned new ones all the time until I'm at capacity.. however, I imposter syndrome often hits hard whenever I get asked almost basic questions. I'll admit I've learned a lot but sometimes the pressure of "this guy has his CPA so he'll know any tax question" is overwhelming.

    Also - side question - does anyone if anything sales related exists in the accounting world? I like working with clients to get them on board and making the sale, saying the right things, etc... but the actual setup and getting them caught up stresses me out like crazy sometimes.

    help :(

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    Anyone have input on this position?

    Posted: 27 Jun 2021 06:18 PM PDT

    Posting on behalf of my friend who doesn't use Reddit:

    Getting out of public accounting with 1.5 years of experience (2 busy seasons). Have an offer for Senior Accountant Real Assets Funds role with a fortune 1000 company. Opinions? Anyone familiar with what the duties of a title like this may entail?

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    Deciding if B4 is for me?

    Posted: 27 Jun 2021 03:30 PM PDT

    What are some things you wish you knew before joining the Big 4?

    If you knew it before would you still go?

    If you had multiple offers what made you pick the one you did?

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    B4 High Performer - when would you expect to start getting more work?

    Posted: 27 Jun 2021 03:22 PM PDT

    I've read many times on this subreddit about how it isn't worth it to be a high performer in B4 audit because you end up with much more on your plate, all for raise %s that are only a couple % higher than your peers. I started last September as a an A1 and have gotten really good reviews every cycle but I've not been added to any other teams yet besides the ones I was assigned when I started. At what point is the secret out that you're a "high performer" and people start trying to pull you on to teams? How much do the higher ups even care which staff gets put on new clients?

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