Client delays led to a long day (10 pm) at the office yesterday. Not used to working late in the summer time, don't want to get used to it. Clients sometimes have these ignorant mindsets wherein they whine about giving us documents 'early', and then at the same time want our comments back earlier. Give me a break, most of you do nothing anyway most of the time and then scramble around trying to finish stuff during crunch time. Oh well, guess I'll leave the schedule game to senior management.
I'm trying to decide whether to audit financial services companies or non-financial services companies. What would you say are the pros and cons of either industries? Do individuals who choose non-FS have less career mobility within the firm or if they decide not to stay with the B4 after a few years? Really depends on what you'd like to do after (unless you really love auditing). If you want to a controller,etc. at a p/e firm or a hedge fund down the road, you'd want to go into financial services. The pay won't be too bad, especially if you get a share of the insane bonuses they dole out. If you want to audit industries with tangible products and want to get a better understanding of the operations of such businesses, then other industries are the way to go.In terms of mobility outside the firm, auditing other industries is the way to go since you have plenty of options when you exit the audit world. For example, in 2008, after Lehman collapsed, it was incredibly hard ...
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