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From an undergrad entering the workforce perspective, it definitely has the least barrier to entry compared to other service lines. That and tax. I didn’t even know about advisory until I had already started interning
Schools make it look cool because the firms pay them to
Exit opps, work flexibility. A lot of higher-level jobs require (or prefer) Big 4 audit experience.
Initially it was the exit opportunities. I wanted to go into consulting and when I graduated, the firms were not hiring consultants right out of school. Now I don't have the desire to go to consulting.... YET (5 years of experience). Personally I've seen and learned a lot of technical stuff at different clients I worked with, and surprisingly the knowledge transfers very well between clients and industries (I've touched a little bit of everything). This has been fun for me - being able to see how much I've grown and realizing I can coherently talk about audit methodologies is cool. I sound cheesy :)
Pro
You will always have a job, it's easy to get promoted and get good raises in public accounting, it's easy and can be satisfying if you are a type A personality and like to improve things/plan/manage others, you can work remotely, you can easily transfer into whatever you want if you don't like it
During recruiting, we had a choice between audit or tax. Those who went with audit did so for the following reasons:
1. Didn’t want to do tax
2. Indecisive
3. Exit opportunities
At my alma mater the firms pitched audit/tax to the students. Personally I wasn’t interested tho so I joined deal advisory/FDD out of grad.
I wanted to do restructuring, but no firm would hire me out of school to do that. I was told to start in audit and then transfer. Transfer never happened.
The WLB isn’t all that bad — utilization is going down overtime and pretty much any accounting job is going to have busy periods — whether that’s monthly close or busy season.
I prefer to do all my hours for the year in a short period (busy season) because it affords me the opportunity to live the life I want the rest of the year.
I was 18 and didn't know what audit was
Rising Star
You learn way more in audit than other jobs, but it’s brutal. There’s a reason people quit right after making senior
If you major in accounting in college they pretty much tell you to do public accounting - so you either choose tax or audit and audit has better exit oops.
Opportunity to go into advisory later. Let's be very real here.