well I suppose most enter audits to gain few years of experience before applying for an analyst job. Its not that easy even to get an interview in investment banking for fresh grads afterall

TO seantang, (sorry don't know how to use the quoting feature)



hi senior, could you shed some light on what can an accounting grad do in a commercial environment?

i m currently under industrial training in the audit field. From my observation, the account departments performing the compliance role are all dead boring to me. Perhaps I'm just seeing a small boring part of their overall roles which may not paint the whole picture, since we only go in during their closing.

Audit feels ok, but nothing more than that. I agree with your point of view that no point spending 3 years in audit just to get an suboptimal experience or a membership, so I'm not really having the must breaking into auditing mindset after graduating, provided knowing what I want to do. now this is the hardest part

The thing is, the ordinary compliance and reporting roles really don't excite me. I'm more interested in decision making roles rather than compliance matters based on past data that do not add value that much.
(cost accounting maybe, but i m more interested in works about analyzing capital allocation and investment decision of a company than cost accounting)


Please advise me regarding the available routes and opportunities for my case, maybe even better explaining with your own experience (as from your former posts, I guess you have a lot of experiences in both of auditing and commercial environment that can give me some really useful advices.)

Thanks man

This post has been edited by starfen: Apr 5 2011, 12:51 AM