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Exit Opportunities: Quit Auditing and Start Influencing

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.” From what we can piece together without spending all day creeping on LinkedIn she started with PwC in 2016 as a Banking and Capital Markets Associate, was promoted to Senior Associate after three years, then left in 2021 to work for KPMG an Assistant management consultant manager for a year [sauce: this website ].

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Pizza Parties In Lieu of Compensation: A Comprehensive History

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Whether your class did well on a test, your team won the game, or your friend had a birthday, the pizza party was always the go-to choice to mark the happy event. Let’s just be grateful accounting firms pay you enough for you to afford a decent rotation of blue button-up shirts and a cremation. All their goods.

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Friday Footnotes: Firms on India Hiring Spree; PCAOB Heads Overseas; PwC Lets You See Your Family This Summer | 5.6.22

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The 25-year-old tax accountant saw the story on the news and decided he wanted to take Ralph, a woman he’d never met, to Game 2 of the NBA Finals. Barchilon bought Ralph a ticket and they went to the game in style–in a stretch limousine. The next big accounting firm merger? Russia Barred From Using U.K.

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Friday Footnotes: Working 100 Hours a Week (For Real); 99% of Firms Short on Staff; The EY Power Struggle | 8.4.23

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Technology With generative AI, start with the basics, EY tells CFOs [ CFO Dive ] The best thing for CFOs today is just “take a look at their operations,” Michael Kelly, partner and management consulting consultant at Big Four accounting firm Ernst & Young said.