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A community for Accounting professionals specializing across roles including Advisory, Audit, Tax, Assurance, and Forensics.
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a Tax Manager
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Why is assurance laying people off? RSM and Wiss are some examples. Is it because of AI?

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a Senior Manager
▸ Accounting
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Question for Partners / Sole practitioners: What were some of the decision criteria that you looked at when deciding to join the partnership or go independent? Do you feel like you made the right choi… more

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Muhammad Abdullah
▸ Accounting
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Hi Everyone,
Hope everyone is doing well and safe.
Guys i wanted to know that what should i do to improve my career in accounting. As i have a degree in bachelor of commerce from pakistan.
Plus i have been working in import and export fre… more

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a Senior Associate
▸ Accounting
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RSM massive layoff coming. Cutting assurance across the board after announcing full bonuses.

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an Associate
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What do you guys think, should the government bail out Spirit (and the other airlines that will be in trouble soon)?

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a Senior Associate
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What would be my options if i dont find tax appealing? Im 3 years out of college and feel like im hitting a plateau and don’t want to go to grad school. Any help would be appreciated.

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works at KPMG
▸ Accounting
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With all this KPMG RIF chatter, was curious if the other Big 4 are seeing something similar in their firms.

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a Community Manager
▸ Accounting
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👀 Have you ever been made to feel guilty for using PTO, even when you earned it? What did you do?

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an Audit Manager
▸ Accounting
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a Manager
▸ Accounting
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What do you think are the chances I can get my large PA firm to approve an outside activity to do paid executive coaching to the same type of clients I do tax work for? I wouldn’t try to go after any … more

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a Junior Accountant
▸ Accounting
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I interviewed with Deloitte about two weeks ago and haven't heard anything. Am I still in the running for the job? I'm not sure how long it takes them to make a decision.

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works at Private Practice
▸ Accounting
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I want to get into forensic accounting. I have a master’s in it and I’m a CFE. My experience is in brokerage and I’ve had several roles investigating errors/fixing them but I have no job titles in acc… more

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an Internal Auditor
▸ Accounting
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Has anyone had a good experience or enjoyed their time working at a Big4? I don't understand why we're all wanting to work at one of these companies when they make us all miserable.

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an Audit Senior Associate
▸ Accounting
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Anyone else extremely unhappy at PKF? Especially after the PE acquisition?

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a CPA
▸ Accounting
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Will it be worth it for me to go back to school and get my MBA? I clearly have my CPA. Does an MBA degree provide any further benefit to my career growth? I don't want an MBA just to say I have on… more

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a Tax Associate
▸ Accounting
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Anyone ever been victim of public accounting (Tax) busy season hire and drop right after April cycle 2 or 3 times? If so how I’ve you been handling it and how did you go about it on your resume?

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a Full Charge Bookkeeper-hr
▸ Accounting
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Need some guidance here. I keep hearing everywhere AI is going to replace bookkeeping jobs. What should I learn and where should I shift my career to ?

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a Tax Associate
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What's the term for people like me who don't want to cause the work drama or be the one people gossip about, but I do want to be in the know about the other people in the office causing drama?

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a None Given TO ME
▸ Accounting
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I am an accountant (no CPA) with 10 yrs experience in large corporations. I was laid off from my last job and spent almost a year searching for a new job before I had to stop to take care of a persona… more

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an Associate
▸ Accounting
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I guess the real question is, should we expect PwC or any employer insurance's plan to cover weightloss drugs? I'm not surprised to see this benefit to be one of the first cut.

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a Senior Associate
▸ Accounting
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Is offshoring as bad as people make it sound? Some are saying to watch out for this in the near future.

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a Tax Senior Manager
▸ Accounting
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Anyone at a accounting firm that is more focused on high quality work and giving their people a work life balance vs high growth? Seems like PE is pushing all these firms to grow faster than their tea… more

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a Senior Associate
▸ Accounting
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an Associate
▸ Accounting
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Well, at least the layoffs coming to KPMG are the consultants' problem.

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a Manager
▸ Accounting
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How do you all vet people you interviewed when your HR won't let you contact references? Our last hire was not truthful in his interview and didn't even last a year. I'm hoping I can do a … more

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an External Auditor
▸ Accounting
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an Accountant I
▸ Accounting
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an Accountant I
▸ Accounting
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a Volunteer Work
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I was let go from a job after returning from medical leave. No reason was given. The firing was discriminatory. I spoke with two legal officials that confirmed it was wrongful termination. Fast forwar… more

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an Accounting Manager
▸ Accounting
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Does anyone know anything about the CMS Settlement Rep position at ADM in Decatur, IL?

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a Tax Manager
▸ Accounting
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Can anyone speak on EY's SALT practice in Florida?

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an Auditor
▸ Accounting
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Who the hell decided 40 was old? I'm 41, and I'm way better at my job than I was in my 20s and 30s. I'm more mature and competent, plus the quality of work I do is head and shoulders above… more

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works at Harbor accounting group (unverified)
▸ Accounting
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Per diem CPA Did you ever work as a part time compliance think tank for three days a week and as soon as tax season ended you never got called back because the owners were cheap?

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a Forensic Accountant
▸ Accounting
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Has anyone thought about moving away from accounting if so what is the best role shift?

I’ve worked for private businesses, accounting firms and government and just feel that I no longer enjoy doing a… more

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works at Avery Dennison
▸ Accounting
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Deloitte canada - RTO/ in-office requirement - does deloitte canada have a minimum required of in-office days?

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an Auditor
▸ Accounting
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Any advice for starting a new industry job with zero direction?

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works at EY
▸ Accounting
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Looking at my personal budget and wondering what a good target amount is for housing. How do my fellow bean counters come up with an appropriate number?

I have seen some people say spend no more that 2… more

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a Community Manager
▸ Accounting
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💭 How do you keep whatever's going on outside of work from affecting your workday?

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a Supervisor
▸ Accounting
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Hi, so I am currently a student getting my degree in accounting/business to then become a CPA. Any advice on where I could start gaining experience in this job field?

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a Senior Analyst
▸ Accounting
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A year removed from public accounting and left as a senior 2. If i were to go back to the same firm after a year in industry, would i be able to come back as a Senior 3?

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