Currently an AP associate at one of the largest hedge funds on the world. They pay for an MBA most likely Kellogg or Booth. Is it worth staying in corp accounting? Sitting at about two years of experience, one in public and one in AP. I fear that I am limited my exit opportunities and thinking about moving back to a public accounting advisory role. Does anyone have any insight or can ease my fears?

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Get your MBA from one of those schools and you’ll have infinitely more exit ops than public accounting will give you. And then gtfo out of accounting lol, starting salaries in consulting with a top MBA are 180k.

But, we warned getting into those programs is no walk in the park. If you don’t have a good undergrad GPA, a good story, and good test taking skills to get a top gmat score, forget about getting into a top 10 mba program and go straight back to public because yes you’ll have limited exit ops.

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