What is the day to day working life like at forensics for a CA with 4 years of post qualification experience in Assurance.
PS: Plz spare using jargons like in JD. Thanks in advance!

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Based on the experiences of my colleagues who left audit and joined forensics, they often said that forensics felt much simpler and less stressful than audit. Especially when compared to the audit season. However, they were often not too pleased that their accounting skills were seldom required if at all.

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EY1 is spot on. I’ve been on several investigations that have centered around technical accounting issues and I’ve been on several that involve zero accounting. I always tell people that if they want to apply their accounting skills on a consistent basis then tax, audit, FAAS, etc. would be a better fit. Personally, I’m fine with only applying my accounting knowledge on a limited basis.

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Everything is highly dependent. You might get a slow pitch project with months to work on it or you might get something with a 24hr turn around. The project might be highly technical in accounting (usually litigation involving GAAP violations) or hardly involve accounting at all (i.e. cyber investigations).

Everything is going to hinge on what kind of forensics work your company does (family law, defense, litigation, investigations, prevention, etc.) what kind of work you specialize in, and what projects flow your way. I've worked in a few different spaces and uses to do mostly plaintiff side litigation, then prevention, and now I do mostly internal investigations. Each type of work also ebbs and flows with changes in economy and governance, so you might see different styles of work from the same position.

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There really is no “day to day” in forensics. Every day on a project will be different. Every project will be different from the last. Every year will likely have very different projects. I guess at the most generic level the only constants are reading shit tons of documents, writing expert reports, analyzing things in excel, and lots and lots of meetings/interviews

Speaking from a disputes and investigations perspective, not sure about the stuff that’s more compliance or audit oriented

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