Will this years busy season will be more challenging than in previous years? Covid, impairment, controls etc being the most audited parts.

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Yes. Not sure how I’m going to work 16 hours a day and also cook all of my meals and try to get sleep

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I think WFH busy season is going to be a complete cluster fuck.

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Wfh alone makes it more challenging. 3 different engagements, with 3 different groups of people (some crossover) and every team has worked at about 80% efficiency of what we would do in the office. Simply can’t have those small convos to solve something in 2 minutes anymore

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^^ this. The number of calls and teams meetings each day is getting to me. Have several active projects going on and routinely don’t have time to eat or shower. Would love to go back to office.

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I feel bad for the first years starting completely at home during this clusterfu€k of a year. I also think firms should do something for us with all the money they will save from not paying for dinner or cabs (and toilet paper) during busy season.

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For the first year starting, get used to video chats. You will be spending a lot of time on them for us to walk you through stuff.

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Depends on your client. WFH will be interesting for all tho.

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Life for audit seniors doing busy season WFH is going to be horrible.

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Yes

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Have we all accepted that we will be WFH this busy season?

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1,000% unfortunately. We ain't seen nothing yet - well, wave 2 for sure coming

Most of my compliance work was done by offshore teams so not a big shift for me

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Thank god I don’t test controls anymore

i love control testing lol although tedious but you can stop thinking while you type the word

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Already has been on 6/30 clients, and that’s only one quarter of CoVid!

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