How do public accounting roles actually differ from industry accountancy? Or are they pretty much the same?

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Short answer is they are different with similar concepts. Long answer is in public accounting there is working on different clients opposed to just who you work for, PCAOB audits, and overall increased travel and work requirements. In industry you can take the internal audit or accounting department routes as direct exits to public accounting with internal audit benefiting from knowledge from a lot of the same control testing you do at a larger firm. Varied compensation depending on industry and generally less hours at least in my experience. Lots of generalizations, but hope this helps.

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Thanks very much, I’ve been thinking of making the switch to public just to have a bit of a change

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