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Depending on the size of the organizations that you are looking at, I wouldn't be too intimidated. Every time I changed employers, I would give myself 6 months to learn the job, and a year to become proficient. In those 6 months you will be learning and evaluating their current systems and processes anyway. As a soon to be former auditor, I suspect you have had exposure to numerous accounting systems and have already determined the strengths and weakness of many of them, and know which ones you liked and didn't. You are going to be given the benefit of being able to choose the tools that you will be working with.
Even a relatively small company has some sort of IT dept that that will do the install and handle the technical details. Most IT Departments have limited knowledge of the nuts and bolts accounting.
The two most important items when doing a system conversion: do not $crimp on the training for the new software and become best friends with the head of IT.
How do auditors have exposure to multiple accounting systems ? In what way exactly just curious
They audit multiple clients each period, through the year. Each client uses different software and some of them uses multiple softwares at the same time. That's why we get exposure to different systems and accounting software