Don't bother getting your CPA if you have no Big 4 experience, Big 4 experience is all that matters.

Also don't bother learning how to research and apply accounting standards, learning things like Power BI, automation, or anything else employers say they want but don't. Literally, all they care about is the Big 4 experience. If you do not have this, then just coast and don't bother to learn anything useful, because CPA's who are in neither category are not wanted in this field.

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Oddly the only reason I got into B4 was because I had a CPA. So I disagree with your position

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I’ve seen quite literally the opposite.

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I have seen incompetent non-CPAs with or without Big 4 experience repeatedly fail upwards to new heights. One with PMP and multiple others with CISA.

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Why do you have this opinion?

I can’t dispute with your lived experience, but that doesn’t make a rule and I disagree with discouraging folks from getting a CPA..
- Recent layoffs in Big4s target staff who haven’t got CPA licence, so you wont last long in Big4 without it anyway.
- There are tons of CPAs in mid-sized firms and solo guys killing it with no Big4 background.

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