I can give view from one of the big4 if you are interested.

And there is no OT pay. No time for personal leisure too. My close colleagues share my view too    (most from sunway anyway).

You join big4 not bcos of salary but for the experience. I can assure you we are paid worse than DBKL workers for pay per hour rate. But experience gained is invaluable. I learned things at a very rapid rate, cos when auditing, the finance manager approach me and said I can handle things even her 2 year assistant cannot do. So in the end it depends how much you can take from it.

Job very much depends, some will need to wait for a while before given a file to handle all by themselves. Means you do the audit for the whole company instead of just class of accounts. These are the reason given by some that Big4 cannot provide these chances to learn cos very specific. Quite true but its just timing cos sooner or later you will given maybe slightly years. I am blessed with good team, so they just give me and other juniors the chance to handle all by ourselves even when less than half a year. Or forced to cos half my team left by then.

People leaving ib Big4 is legendary. And you always need to be constantly ready to take over their work. So you are basicly doing 2 to 3 person workload at the same time. Imagine a whole team just left........

Partner level .......... you can if you are willing to work late every night (sometimes weekend) for 15 to 20 years then possible lo (in Big4 at least). And you must have ICAEW and approval from other partners.

For big4 they are not that picky but extra activities comes with bonus compared to those who dont.
For MNC, they do prefer all rounded and acca comes slightly less appealing cos too narrow and no clubs participation. But with proper working experience, that short handedness can be eliminated.

Just 2 criteria to be successful.
You need to be booksmart (IQ) and streetsmart (EQ).

Adios peeps, off for my first weekend outing 

I'm just wondering whether can we take P7 and P2 in the same sitting without finishing the essential papers first?

I'm sitting for P1 this June sitting and would like to take P2 and P7 this Dec without taking P3 first.

I'm just wondering whether can we take P7 and P2 in the same sitting without finishing the essential papers first?

I'm sitting for P1 this June sitting and would like to take P2 and P7 this Dec without taking P3 first.

You can attempt up to a maximum of four papers per examination cycle. There are two examination cycles per year:

    * 1 February – 31 July
    * 1 August – 30 January.

Papers must be taken in line with the following module order, however you can attempt the papers within each module in any order:

    * Knowledge (F1-F3) – available by computer-based exam (CBE) or paper-based format
    * Skills (F4-F9) – available by paper-based format
    * Essentials (P1-P3) – available by paper-based format
    * Options (P4-P7) – available by paper-based format

If your status allows you to enter for papers across modules, please remember that you must complete the papers in order and enter for outstanding papers in your current module if you wish to enter to sit papers in the next module.

Means no? oO

Means no? oO

I think it's better for you to check with ACCA rather than asking here..just call up ACCA and ask Clement.maybe he can give you some info..

Anyway, I am taking P2,P5 and P6 next month, that is why I say you can take P2 and P7 at the same time although you haven't fully completed P1-P3.

I have lots of friends taking the option paper while struggling with P3. I don't think that is a problem at all..

Philip Woo's P1 revision class is really late this year and I am thinking not to attend it since I think it is better for me to stay at home and use productively the two days time. I usually cannot concentrate in really long classes. Can anyone give me some insight on how Philip conducts his IRC? If it is just some normal brief summary of what he taught in class and going through some past year questions, I would probably skip his classes, or is his IRC really helpful for the exams? I attended his normal classes by the way

well he well kinda go through what he taught in class previously during his revision but he will focus on the more important stuff only, like he will go through like how to determine those qualify not qualify part, if you are in his normal class then you should have his lil box where he draw how to determine it...

if you forgotten some of the concept then i suggest you better go for revision la... um... he will go through quite a lot of PYQ in revision, then he will spot what he think is important.

Then again, i wont suggest you use his tips la, cause last sem i was under him and his tips not accurate also... study everything is the best advice(as usual) la yea! all the best!

Yo, who got their exam docket already ?

eh. when did you get it ? i haven't gotten mine yet