Anyone leave big 4 to pursue a PhD not in accounting (another business field)? Who did you ask for references? Did you find that big 4 experience helped your application?

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It won’t hurt. GMAT/GRE will be very important. Stay within the business field though. At my school the 15 highest paid professors are in the business department and that’s the case at a lot of schools

Had an accounting teacher once who was in the last year of her PHD program. She left big 4 at the manager level and said she missed it but would she was going to give teaching more time.

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