its only 3rd week of feb. a more month and the peak would be lighter?? dude, which firm are you in? can join?

so lemme put it straight, you're not even in the audit line and the 1 more month thing as represented by you earlier is just a hearsay from your part, a friend from sibu? sorry, if you were wondering why i was just assuming you are not in the audit line, its because of the lack of professional skeptism.

hi there.

yes, ALL big fours would require you to take up professional papers if you are applying for a professional position (advisory consultant, tax consultant, auditor). hope this clears. however, you are allowed to choose your own professional course such as ACCA, MICPA, ICAA, ICAEW or CPA Australia as long as the professional course is directly relates to your position. good luck.

unfortunately, you'd have to take up professional papers. usually, there will always be a clause in your employment contract which states that you agree to take up a professional course in close relation to your job function. if you are not interested in taking professional paper, just keep it to yourself and delay the registeration as much as you can. theoritically, you will have lower chance to get into a big4.

but these registerations of professional paper is usually only done once you are confirmed (3 months upon joining). so u can actually defer longer if u want to. although i dont see a point of doing so if you are already into the audit line, you may as well take up the paper or you wont go far (AM the highest?)


imo, i think you should just go straight to a Big 4. Many people argue that if you go into small medium firm u get to see the whole books where in big 4, you will only do section auditing. Not exactly true. Below's why.

On section auditing, to a certain extent i agree. As a 1st year or 1st 6 month joiner, we dont expect you to be able to do the entire audit on your own (unless the company is very dormant). U will however be entrusted to lead and complete the entire audit of a single standalone company once you have done 1 year. only in very rare circumstances that even 1 year, you arent given a job on your own (it means mgmt dont think u are capable enough).

on small medium firm practice: no offence to anyone who is attached to the category of firms, but from my observation, usually medium and small firms have very minimum focus on internal control. as our audit usually involve in alot of control testing, lack of experience in this phase is actually quite disadvantaging. hence, the story about "small medium firm, see the whole book earlier" is bollock imo. In anycase, small medium firm's client are usually much smaller and less complicated (most insurance and bank and construction cos , at least the major ones are audited by big 4). so how are you gonna substantiate the story that small medium firm can see more things?

i stand to be corrected.

u can apply now. if anything, applying now further shows u are forwrad thinking. a very important aspect of auditor despite our job is to deal with histroical figures.

i got my offer even before i commenced my final semester.

good luck guys!