Related Posts
How is everyone doing?
Additional Posts in Fraud and Forensics
New to Fishbowl?
Download the Fishbowl app to
unlock all discussions on Fishbowl.
unlock all discussions on Fishbowl.
How is everyone doing?
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Download the Fishbowl app to unlock all discussions on Fishbowl.
Copy and paste embed code on your site

Scan your QR code to download
Fishbowl app on your mobile

Feedback I’ve generally heard:
1. Passion - Disputes/investigations are more interesting for people who want to do forensics (is FEMA or compliance really even true forensics?)
2. Pay - for people who want a long term career in forensics, disputes/investigations are where the $ is (look at the stark difference in comp between EY and other firms)
3. Pigeonholing - for people who want to keep exit opps open, disputes/investigations are where the learning opportunities and transferable skills are (why would advisory/consulting or a Fortune 100 company want someone who’s only experience is churning out niche paperwork for grant programs?)
So…golden handcuffs? Theres a huge difference between not having exit opps and just making so much money you don’t want to exit to begin with. Kind of weird to be complaining about making too much money lol
The work is a lot more interesting/fulfilling in investigations, disputes, compliance, and insurance claims. FEMA work right now is driving a lot of business right now and it’s pretty basic cost recovery. If you know how to read contracts, procurement doc’s, then you can do FEMA cost recovery work. It’s more consistent than the other work streams and the teams are usually filled with pretty good people. But the work is dry and it’s not very transferable to other areas of practice
Great thank you for the advice EY1, are you in forensics yourself you seem very knowledgeable !