My dear, it's FEMALE dominated LOL and there's TONNES of junior associates.

Hahaha, yeah. Just take the relevant safety precautions and you'll be fine. Repark your car, don't work alone (besides if you wanna work alone you might as well go home, or go find starbucks or some nice chillaxed cafe somewhere)

Generally, yes, but not all the time (especially during key dates). I can be very lenient initially, but I mentally keep notes of a person's progress. If that person is obviously not working as fast as he/she should, I'll make a bit of noise. And if it doesnt work, I'll jsut escalates it upward that this associate is not performing, and will be reflected accordingly. I am nice to people whom I find to be competent, but really strict to the rest.

Call me biased, but it's how I manage. If you don't deserve the free rein, you don't get it.

Join EY. People are nicer there
In PwC, you have people like myself. Nasty, demanding and a little power crazy.

DOnt worry about it Shud be fine. Im sure they have some medical coverage XD

Correction. We get an 'allowance' for telephone, nto claim. We get an RM40/mth limit on bband too.
Inversely, at 1st year and 2nd year senior levels, the salaries of EY (from what I heard) is higher than PwC.
Its a tradeoff. Tit for tat.

Can't answer you, because it depends on how is the workload on the assignment. If we have sufficient staff, expectations on the VTs might not be so high. If we dont, everyone will have to pick up the shortfall, and that includes the VTs.

Generally, I expect being able to write a sentence, not timid and willing to ask questions, knows how to be tactful with the client (i'm personally still working on this, but it's great when some VTs just have the natural charm with the clients), knows how to use excel decently well (basic formulaas), and then of course, of strong accounting knowledge (up to a point la. I'm expecting if like.. if a sales happens, u know what the debit and credits shud be.. kind of thing).

Everything else, just pick up quickly as you go. =)

Wrong. You have to be able to deal with DIFFICULT people, generally all the time. Dealing with people must be natural to you, because we are a service industry.

Hahahaha i admit im pretty submissive. My EQ is way up there! LOL.

Right now, it's relatively comparable, except for PwC which is lower than the rest in terms of basic salary for the average performer.

Just one question, how well do you think you know the details of how our clients operations are?
I might know the rough processes, and what sort of documents are needed along the way, but I've got little idea of what their decision making processes are like, or what sort of thought process do they go through on whether to decide on make payments etc or not.

Without knowing the details, I find it hard to sell myself as a subject matter expert, even though I've been doing say client X for the last 4 years.

Good lord my intern is so blur sotong I wanna strangle them.. Damn them CFAB interns.

I have no issues with the ICAEW programme, and in my personal opinion they are a more prestigious programme compared to ACCA.

But I have a huge HUGE HUUUUGEEEE problem with the CFAB - > ICAEW interns, based on the few interns that I've come across in my life in PwC.

1. Most have HORRIBLE Microsoft excel skills.
2. Most have no idea what the hell is going on. (don't even have a decent idea how an invoice looks like ><)
3. Most don't really have any 'heart' to really learn, or to build up their knowledge of the working world.
4. Most are super young (18/19 years old) and frankly, at that age, you're just an immature kid, despite what you may think of yourself.

Whereas compared to my other interns who are.. 22/23 y/o from USM/UM/UUM or TAR etc.. those are much better adjusted and show better knack of what's going on.

SO yeah.

In terms of excel/work, I'm just expecting u to remember a few simple things.

a) Keep your files organised. Save copies of your own work, and arrange them so that you can find them when we ask you to show it to us.
b) Know how to use =sum and do multiplications etc
c) Know how to document neatly. (seriously, all you need to do is just make sure all the fonts you use are the same size, make sure the numbers have the some amount of decimals, and don't use too many colors etc...)

Hahaha. There's alot of things new graduates don't know how to do.


Students think they'll only pick it up at work. Employers assume they'll pick it up in college. The front line staff who needs to train these people out of necessity are the ones that suffer.

Erm, the problem is there for most new associates/interns, but for if we're looking specifically at interns, CFAB interns are generally the worse. I've gotten bad experiences from 2 CFAB interns (both during peak), and have heard of similar complaints from my peers.

That said, I have heard of good ones. But the general outlook and perception of CFAB interns for me, is that they suck.

Hahaha, I gave bad ratings to people who got off badly with me. If you're not good enough, sorry to say, you're not good enough. I'll save my fellow colleagues from the suffering of living/working with a half-past-six staff that can't even get basic things right. If you've been a senior and been through the suffering of fixing your teammates' incomplete work, you'll know what it feels like.

Sure, in a perfect environment, everyone would be given a chance to learn and fix themselves, but during peak and we're short of seniors as it is, and you give me attitude and do half past six work for me? Sorry. YHe's gonna get it. And trust me, I'll tell the person who the intern will be working for next that the intern needs 'special' attention.

PwC SPA advisory. They'll need your skillset. PM Me, I can recommend u, and we share the employee referral fee. (lol)
They might take u from a senior Associate to manager, depending on how hard you push and bargain

+1

Oh. Didn't know that. Last time I went to EY, wasn't difficult to get shortlisted at all. Interview, interview again, then offered d.
Then again, PwC also called me la.

On a side note, anyone in PwC lately noticing all the hot chicks in our office? Seems mostly fresh cos I've not seen them before. XD

I think you can actually try to approach ACCA/ICAEW on how many papers you'll be exempted for your that particular degree, then only move on whether to decide it'll be okay. Perhaps send ICAEW and ACCA an email to their student contact number etc and see what they come back with?

On average, general business degrees don't get as many exemptions from ACCA/ICAEW/ICAA etc, generally because the focus is less on the accounting and finance items that are covered by the above.

Alternatively, if you have seniors or friends who've done the same degree as you, you might try to reach out to them and ask them about exemptions. Nothing to lose, innit