What's the worst audit client you have ever experienced?

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A global 30 insurance company. All the higher level accounting folks felt too important to deal with auditors, and the Directors/SMs felt too important to deal with staff. Like c'mon, just because the client is big doesn't mean we aren't doing anything more than auditing and accounting. Also the busy seasons were 90+ hours. Very glad I'm out of there

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You want the older, more established big clients usually. The newer companies (think tech) can be real pains to deal with because everything is so new. You might get lucky and nab one that overpaid significantly giving your team plenty of hours to deal with the messes their lack of robust internal controls brings. But you might not.

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I had a client that intentionally locked the team out of the building, sexually harassed and made advances on female team members, berate team members, the owner created a side LLC to funnel sales through that investors otherwise would have had rights to profits.

Let’s see what else…the IT guy put ransom ware on the servers so he could hire his friend to remove it and they divided the fee.

The owner built a state of the art gym that only their family was allowed to use in a storage room for $200k and ran the expenses for that and his $20k semi annual trip to Disney world through the business

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A client who at the beginning of last busy season told us that surprise! We forgot to tell you we launched more than 10 small funds! But those don’t need audits…right?

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The real estate fund I’m on right now is pretty shit. They’re organized but they’re giant assholes

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