Is it possible for an accountant to make it to IB or consulting?

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I don’t know about investment banking, but my very good friend (who is also my personal and companies’ accountant), is a partner at a firm that does a lot of consulting in addition to accounting stuff. I suppose it depends what you would like to be consulting about, really.

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Yes.

Yes. It’s all about putting in the work.

Yes. Lots of accounting to MBA to banking.

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