Audit senior at midtier, cpa, can’t break into B4 FDD

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Try mid tiers, regionals, etc. My personal opinion is you shouldn’t spend more time in audit if you want to be in fdd. Also, at the end of the day, fdd work will be similar across firms.

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I'm legitimately pretty surprised on this. Seniors are so hard to find right now, you'd think this transfer would be easy

What firm?

Switch to big 4 audit for a year then try again if you want it that badly

Are you getting referrals? Shooting applications into the void has had a really low success rate for me but with referrals things have been a lot better.

Do b4 audit and back door your way in.

Try for DDD

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