Senior associate at Big 4 audit, no cpa. Really do not enjoy audit and having a hard time figuring out what i want to do. Thoughts?

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I'd say Advisory could be the move - accounting advisory / technical accounting, transaction advisory, risk advisory, even systems implementation could be interesting

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AP clerk

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Valuation or forensics

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Move to transaction advisory if you wanna make a lot more money too

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How did you get into big four with no cpa?

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