Out of curiosity, a question for people that have hopped between public firms: How is the software between the different firms?

Are certain firms knowing for have better/worse software?

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BDO has great tax software that is improving day by day

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EY technology was trash when I worked there 8 years ago

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Its still a trash

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From an audit perspective…Deloitte is the best. PwC is not as great as it should be for the top firm in the world and EY lags behind. Just my opinions and observations.

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I would agree omnia is an adjustment but its great!

In my experience everyone under big 4 basically uses off the shelf software so you’ll see a lot of the same stuff.

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Specific for partnerships tax - EY is trash, KPMG is pretty good, PwC is the best. I have no idea about Deloitte

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Probably depends on what service line. Tax software is pretty standard across all 4. It’s the other technology that makes a difference like on the admin side of things (billing, engagement acceptance, etc etc etc).

I have worked in 3 big 4 and bdo
Tech wise ey was best deloitte introduced omnia which is good but they were very late in the game never have any positive thoughts about kpmg bdo did better

It’s all about the same - EY has a better K-1 partner forms (opposed to PwC) . Most firms I been use go system or pro system (relatively same)

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