Is the CISA worth it? Everyone I’ve talked to says it has done nothing for them

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Well aren’t you just a ray of sunshine..... 🤦‍♀️

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I am in risk assurance, so it is way more valuable than CPA for my line of work

Speaking of dead-end career, aren’t we all in a dead-end career in audit? 😂

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Only doing it for the bonus tbh

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Worthless certification for a dead end career.

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I mean it’s worth it in that you need it (or another cert) to be promoted to manager.

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@EY1, Based on the number of SM in Risk Assurance I’ve seen studying for the CPA I’d say that’s pretty valuable in RA as well. Especially if you’re trying to make a business case for PPED and need to be able to sign off on SOC reports.

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So in audit you generally have to have CPA to make manager. CISA helps as a skill when selling work though. Only downside is now you have to do the work and it take a lot of experience hours

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None of the SM on my team has a CPA though......

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