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Probably someone who is bitter they get paid less
A director belittling others because they are insecure and need to boost their self-image... 🙄 The post is obviously humorous, it's kind of weird you felt the need to type that out.
Audit skills: copy a number from two files to a third file. Explain why it matters or doesn’t matter that the numbers match (or don’t match)
Tax: copy a number from one file and paste to another. Explain why you copied from that file and pasted in the other
Advisory: starting with no context, create a story with a client on-the-fly.
These are very different skill sets. Whoever says that analytical skills are required in tax and audit have very low standards for what qualifies as analytics
I never said creating a story with no context was hard. It’s just different
The only thing that makes audit hard is that you are severely understaffed and your client hates you.
It’s hard in a brute force, rote sort of way usually. Sometimes the problems are actually intellectually stimulating but rarely. Almost always personnel related or client related - people not doing their jobs.
I mean that is literally every job. Same thing with investment banking, everyone’s a monkey.
Hell no. I’ve done both and audit is a joke. Someone is definitely bitter.
Genuinely KPMG's audit practice is sad. Ive met so many teams that genuinely don't understand it but act like they do. Hard to say they have skills
Audit for weird cases / higher risk acct maybe… but simple accounts no