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A year of forensics on top of a year in audit is not going to limit your exits compared to say, 2 years in audit, if that’s what you’re asking. Especially if you’re a CPA.

If anything forensics will probably broaden your exits a bit. Depending on the projects you work on, it’ll likely either make you a better candidate for risk/compliance roles, data/tech roles, or finance/valuation/FP&A roles.

Forensics does tend to get pigeonholed eventually but that’s more at director level and above, and mostly has to do with a golden handcuffs situation, not a lack of opportunities

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