When something’s not done correctly, and it wasn’t caught during first review but caught during second. Who looks worse, the preparer for doing it wrong or the first reviewer for not catching the mistake?

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The second review is to catch mistakes or misses. It only looks bad if you keep missing the same thing. Just forget about it this round and take note of it for next time.

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It is the senior’s job to catch mistakes made by the preparer. In my opinion, the draft that is delivered by the senior to the manager/director is now the senior’s work product irrespective of the quality of the preparer’s work, which means any mistakes on that draft are on the senior, not the preparer. The mark of a good senior is acknowledging that he or she missed it on their review; if the senior blames the preparer for a mistake on the senior’s draft, then they’re a prick.

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Depends on the mistake. First review is detail review, so if it is transposed numbers for example, it should be caught. I had made the mistake of not catching an allocation not getting pushed through in the software, so a total was wrong, and that got caught by detail review. Second review tends to be more high level, so if that mistake hadn’t been caught by detail review it would have looked maybe a little worse for the reviewer than the preparer, but at the same time it was not huge and not a big deal. I think a more glaring large mistake would look worse on the detail reviewer. The thing is, I’m the preparer on a project I picked up to finish some work that needed to get out by a deadline, and I found a mistake the original preparer and both reviewers missed on something, so most of the time they understand we’re all human and make some mistakes.

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Mistakes are going to happen, things are going to go to a client with errors, caught or not. Don’t lose sleep unless you suck.

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The preparer should always try to make sure it’s their best work. Most of the time, associates just churn work and expect seniors to catch/fix mistakes.

However, seniors are tasked to review and make updates as appropriate. Tho, seniors will get the brunt of blame, the associate will not get a good review from the senior.

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This is the way

Why does it matter?

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First reviewer. Preparer was in the weeds so natural that they missed stuff. First reviewer is supposed to bring the fresh set of eyes.

But don’t worry I miss stuff all the time lol.

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It’s always the seniors fault whether they prepared it or was the first reviewer

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