Anyone knows it?

What will the fresh graduate doing in Big 4's tax department? Is the starting salary will be lower than audit associate? What are the professional courses available for tax people?

Become a MIA member taking ACCA, CPA, MICPA and so on?

Sorry for saying that, coz Acca, CPA,... is popular to be taken by people who work in audit field.

I'm currently working in a small audit/accounting firm. It's already 1 year since I started working here on Nov'12. I have just completed the remaining papers of ACCA on last June sitting. I'm planning to switch to big4. I'm actually interested in all audit, tax or advisory. Any advice for me? Previously, I thought to work in bank as finance-related jobs but heard its quite to get in there as low turnover there. I don't mind they treat me like freshie. abit nervous which firm should I apply.

I have received offers from ey and pwc for the positions of ITRA and SPA respectively. As I'm pondering which job I should be taking, it would be great to hear from anyone of you who has experience working in either or both of these fields in terms of the career path/prospect, department structure, training, working culture etc.

Thanks!

just curious about something

would a staff of client firm who is interested in auditing view prior year audit working papers and learn something out of it?
i assume that the audit rules&regulation disallows it.and i dont think these working papers are even kept in the client's office (kept in auditors office)

Hello everyone!

Ive just gotten an interview invitation for KPMG (audit associate position) for the end of this month but their interview process is very different from other firms lol. Does anyone have more information on the 'group presentation' part and what it will be like? This worries me the most :/ Thanks!

Thanks for reply.

I wonder if that would be a good choice. Like, what would be the expectation of me?

How different would the environment of advisory be than assurance?

Don't wanna end up in some blazing shit after getting out of the frying pan

Yeah, you have 14 days annual leaves to take. No accumulation though, you have to utilize it before year end, especially before stock take period which is 30 Dec - 1st Jan

You are entitled to annual leave even in your first year.. How many days of annual leave you get depends on when you join the firm..
I joined in mid september... so I got like 4.5 days of AL... it's pro rated..

Big 4 are quite generous when it comes to benefits especially when compared if all the other firms.

Do have to take note though that.. having annual leave doesn't mean your annual leave will be approved for sure.. it really depends on the timing of your annual leave

Not quite but I am very concern in regards to the future as SPA.
Couldn't find out much about them besides from pwc website and CH's

I think a reasonable guess would suggest that if such system exist, it would be hard for the firm to keep track with every staff's actual leaves for the year. I doesn't work that way. For myself, I joined early in the year and hence I got 14 days from the start

there are no such term "holiday" for auditor 

all the best in coming year(s)!

Quit earlier this year.. Now having an interview in kpmg next week... Jz went to pwc spore for interview yest... Hope I can get the spore one instead

Hey guys. I recently got a job offer from EY (Ernst & Young), and I accepted it. The quoted salary is RM2700 + RM250 FlexiAllowance. The position is Associate - Performance Improvement under Advisory. The intake is in Jan 2014.

However, I have got another friend who got offered exactly the same position as mine, but starting Mar 2014 (one batch later). Both of us graduated from the same university (in Australia). But my friend's quoted salary is RM3000 + RM250 FlexiAllowance, exactly RM300 higher than mine.

May someone explain why the salary difference? I just wanna clear my doubts as I accepted the offer, I can no longer counter-offer or ask for a higher salary right?

And the weird thing is, I graduated in Aug 2013, got First Class honours as my average, while my friend got the offer while she is still completing her degree, and the result is not finalised yet.

   

Sorry I just checked again it is FlexiCare Allowance. Yes it is automatically given to all employees at EY (Ernst & Young).

it's a general allowance...
PwC have specific allowance for specific categories..
EY just introduced a general one lol
mileage and parking can claim lah if go to client's site

guys, I have an interview with KPMG tmr... it stated assessment, group presentation and then interview..

any idea what the assessment will be? and how bout the group presentation also..

btw ppl, I got confirmation to go PWC spore already.. received a call yest...but now that I got it, I got a lil freak out thou.. I mean suddenly goin spore and work all on my own..yea, didn't know im a sissy guy myself too...

so yea, jz gonna do my best in KPMG msia tmr and see and then ill decide..

thanks, and pls do give me some rough idea on the KPMG assessment and group presentation yea..