Just do your ACCA and pass it.

Pretty sure you'll get some calls coming in, whether it's the Big 4 or some large MNC.

Good luck.

Work load will be epic heavy as usual, if you are working for Big 4 firms.

Be prepared to be crazy busy and last minute study as usual.

I think you need to pay yourself 1st and they will refund you later?

They are pretty supportive of ACCA holders Nowadays apparently lol

Okay what? 1,5k is better than nothing

Compared to some firms who ask u to take ACCA but not willing to subsidize 1 cent at all

What you deem as common sense might not be actually common sense in work environment.

When you are new, you'll probably ask more and be more cautious instead of being all gung ho and making your own decisions.

Not defending anyone here, but most people I know who are fresh from uni and never held a job before tends to ask a little bit more to prevent making silly mistake.

Give them a time frame ( 2~4 months perhaps ) and I think they will stop asking silly question.

Just keep trying and don't give up

Consulting is all about experience.

I won't say it's not possible, but your chances are not high unless you are a top scorer in ACCA exams and have pretty decent networking so that people can vouch for you.

You need to kiss ass and start playing the politic games if you want to have good performance appraisal every time

Or you could join Tax like me

Apparently there's a hike in tax department hiring due to indirect tax ( keyword : April 2015 ) and they seems to be pretty nice compared to the ones in the Assurance department

But don't take my word fully on it. I'm biased to PwC as many of my friends are working there/worked there for a bit.

I'm not in PwC yet.

Am unwilling to let go of my current pay as it's more than what PwC's offering for that tax position.

The environment is pretty much the same elsewhere. You work, you finish it, you go home late.

Lol.

I hope the promotion comes in December as I might join sometime around May as well.

This post has been edited by chiahau: Mar 24 2015, 05:31 PM

PwC Tax if I am lucky

Your boss is the one you need to suck up to, not me.

I'll just a nobody in the big big world of PwC

Should be corp tax.

And no, inexperience hire

EY no parking, PwC got LRT.

I second you

Long hours + plenty of work.

Almost the same for all, I dareday.

They go join Big 4.

Good ones leave after a while and go to corporate/finance/etc.

Some choose to stay loyal to Big 4 and stay there until Kingdom come.

Lousy one quit within 1 year due to stress and go work for small small companies or do something completely unrelated.

So yeah, good and average ones are mostly all taken.

Every firm has it's own title and progression pathway.

Same goes with remuneration.

If you are an average joe, will take your approximately 3~5 years / maybe even more to make AM.

If you are someone awesome, there are people who manage to make senior within 1,5 years or so.

It's all on you. As for remuneration, those information are available quite easily over the internet.

Coming from a potential boss of EY, I sure belip jew

Get a professional qualification and work harder in life.

Don't just give up coz you got a crappy degree.

With a 3rd class degree, unless the candidate can impress the partners, a bit hard to enter also.

Now a lot of degree holders, market damn competitive to entry level.

Might as well hide in a small firm, quickly pass CPA/ACCA then resurface with a much reputable qualification.

Don't fret about the past.

You can't do anything about it.

Look forward instead man.

Plan for your professional qualifications.