Audit Bowl

I'm over it. Partner, that is. I'm nearly 40, 13 years into my career and I've decided if it never happens, I'm okay with it. Hopefully I get promoted to Director next month and enjoy my career in aud...

Odd situation here. Recent college grad. Accepted an offer to start at a mid sized firm this fall, 2026. Just finished an internship at a B4 firm where i was offered a position for fall 2027. I want t...

Is it a major accomplishment to be promoted to Director?

Moving states to start a new job at GS Goldman Sachs @ in the fall and have preplanned vacation 8 days after my start date to visit family. I communicated this to the recruiter, who relayed this to ...

We are coming up on raise/promotion season. Please share if willing before and after, bonus and if promoted. Also would make sense level, line of business (tax/audit/adv/orher) and COL. And GO ----...

There's really no point in doing an exit interview when leaving KPMG. The data isn't collected to improve the firm—it’s just HR evaluating whether an exiting employee is a potential liability or a ris...

I have signed an offer letter and since the start date is so far ahead I can give more than a two week notice. I like my firm, coworkers, and partners but is it overkill to give a 4 week notice or mor...

Friendly reminder for anyone stressing over year-end ratings: If your reviewer gave you 'Developing Towards Next Level' across all your technical competencies, but your PML still anchors you to a '3' ...

What is the average GPA of the Associates hired by KPMG? Do they get only 2.0 pointers to work for them?

Moving from audit to advisory practice, what is the M salary range in UK in big 4s?

What happened at BDO? Where are my BDO peeps? BDO

Up for promotion to manager in December but I don’t have any desire to be a manager nor do I want to stay senior for another busy season. Looking to exit. Do I stay for the title bump? Feel like it w...

What is going on at CohnReznick? left a couple years ago and saw some posts on big4 insta. Is it true they increased hours and reduced the annual PTO?

I got an offer to move to CBIZ tas. Doing B4 audit since October 2024 and going to be promoted to senior in 2 months so will have to leave right before senior promo. Should I hit my 2 year mark and tr...

I currently make low $180s in salary as an experienced Senior Manager (NYC) expecting a promotion to director this year. What salary should I expect? Over $200k?

Can anyone convince me that making partner is a terrible idea?

Has anyone used Claude in audit yet? Or any other AI? I work for a small company and felt we're so behind still manually cleaning up Excel files 😂 I'm considering buying Claude on my own but don't kn...

How to succeed in public accounting these days if not an uptight Type A workaholic? Especially at manager or above. I have a real life and interests/identity outside of my job and I don't freak out ov...

what’s with managers reviewing work papers 2 months after they’re done and then writing review comments? makes me not want to cooperate with them

Auditors, what are things that non-auditor higher level industry accountants (this can be controllers/CFO's etc.) need to know and do but don't?