How is AWM at PwC?

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RSM1 you sir, are almost right. It depends on what you do there, and how you shape your path. If you work on a big bank client churning out K-1s, sure. But you learn a lot from boutique firm clients. I’d know - I left RSM for PwC, doing AWM at both places.

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I think 3-4 years in AWM helps you learn about compliance/reporting etc, there is a lot of technical trainings that occur at PwC so it is what you make of it. I would say if your trying to go into something more intellectually stimulating The M&A Sub K practice is a really good group and you can get put on pretty interesting projects and learn the technical etc. also more exposure to Upper management from the client side and law firms etc.

Also fair warning the grass is not greener in terms of WLB. Your gonna be cranking out some hours but if your trying to build your technical foundation early in your career then I would recommend.

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I left AWM at PwC for my current role.

AWM is really brutal February-April and July-September and can potentially be also tough in the remainder of the year depending on what you end up staffed on.

However, the main reason I left AWM wasn’t necessarily the workload; I left because it isn’t really a tax role. You learn how to manage processes very effectively, how to crank out K-1’s and deal with TRACK (PwC Specific Partnership software) but you really don’t learn much tax technical, advanced Excel, or anything that’s transferable to a new role or helps you develop as a tax professional, in my view.

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What role did you switch to?

Death, don’t do it

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Why is that

Brutal

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Seems like it’s year round busy season the past two years or so…

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Not the best week to ask me

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Join if the goal is 2-4 years then leaving for a fund accountant role. Otherwise it's just a K-1 factory and you don't really learn much as far as Tax

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How does one leave awm tax to enter fund accounting? I thought audit gets hired more for those roles

Join a tax group that does provision work, more valuable for when you leave

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P5 sums up what I want to say. If OP's goal is to work in industry, go to ITP and learn provision. I was a helper during busy season for AWM. Hours are terrible, work is boring. Plus you have to learn this terrible tool called TRACK. The only good thing is that you could get promoted in 2 years, but most people leave in 3 or 4 years. Since exit options are limited, some quit without jobs lined up. Other are doing something totally different. Please do not do it.

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Are you already doing something similar in another PA firm? If not, I’d highly recommend not joining such group because you get pigeonholed into a speciality that isn’t really well sought after outside of public.

Yeah you can do some trainings in the fall but nothing will prepare you for the slap in the face and everything you have to manage feb 1 while still trying to learn track

In a similar group at Deloitte and as a staff don’t feel like I’m learning anything. For busy szn cranked out K-1s and tax returns like no tomorrow and can’t find a minute to sit down and really understand what I’m doing lol

Same here

Run 🏃‍♂️

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