people who moved from PA > industry, how hard was it to learn to actually do recons, flux, and other month end processes vs auditing it?

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So much easier than auditing. It took 1 close process for me to get a solid base down.

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did your company already have a solid process, so you could easily reference prior months? as someone with only 2.5yr work experience i’m afraid i’ll not know jack shit

This is like my biggest fear, idk if it’s impostor syndrome but I just look at my client’s work and think, would I be able to do this if I was on the other side?

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Same here :( I’ve started to interview and for the most part when I ask about transitioning to industry, they say it’s pretty easy to learn but I’m still worried LOL

Not too bad at all.

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You will be looking at these recons day in and day out, rinse repeat. You gotta be really dumb to not know how it works after doing it once.

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