Poor? I am rich. You speak for yourself, poor Gen Y auditor wanna be.

You just see everything from one side of the picture do you?

I have worked for Big 4 audit firm, shared service, MNC and SMEs. I know two sides of the coin.

You speak of client responsibility and lack of competence as if this task is so easy. As auditors is like football fans watching their favourite football team getting thrash by the rival, and after the match, you guys start thrash talking the manager and the squad, want to sack the manager, sell the ineffective players when you are not even on the field.

Have you ever have to run a finance team of 10 to 20 people? Its not easy. One day you'll see especially when you move to commercial. Hah, I hope you will experience it, you try to speak smart alec style but you'll get the karma. Locally listed companies are especially messy. When staff resign, it takes months to retrain a new staff, lost opportunity and the knowlesge is lost. That is why listed companies like to hire auditors because they think these people have full set experience. Have you ever joined a listed company and find yourself having to play catch up, do one year of bank reconciliation that was left behind by the previous staff. You have no help, nobody know how to do the work, just the bank statements, soft copy and the GL. In some circumstances, staff that work more than 20 years, leave the firm grudgingly, then refuse to pass down the knowledge to fellow colleagues. Then nobody there knows how to use the accounting software, it can be IFCa and even as big as SAP. Then your boss hire you, without telling you of the consequences, you wonder what crap you got yourself into.

It is not easy to keep a team of finance staff happy. Maybe past years, a company do well, pay bonus and increment, then one year the boss makes a wrong investment decision, the company start to make losses, the old staff leave, start hiring new green staff that not familiar with the industry and not know the background. Different industries got different accounting treatment. These knowledge are lost forever. It could be hedging techniques, commission calculation or even records of where the land titles or legal disputes were kept. Its all lost. Then you come in to clear the mess. Imagine what situation you are in, when the auditors come in, you're new, bombard you with questions, and you feel hopeless to help.

You may want to say that only i been through this situation, trust me almost every auditor who moves to commercial have experienced this. Even when I move in MNC with shared services, they got this headache as well. Sometimes when they want to migrate the work from factory to shared services, you'll face a lot of resistance. Lack of cooperation from factory finance staff because they want to protect their jobs.

You speak of client responsibility to prepare schedules as if it is so easy but you wait lah, perhaps karma will come to you when you intend to join commercial finance.

The pwc auditors think they are the top tier, crem de la crem, so they think they entitled to ask any question. Schedule also have to do for them, no idea what they learn. That is why when commercial hire them,, they hire them to do corporate work.

Depends...if you do for our blady china man listed companies, could be quite boring.

Some may even be consol job.

Consol job very boring la. Have to chase subsi and assoc co for accounts. Bosses no appreciate you, hire you for sake of consol only. No future in conso job.

Then corporate job like raising equity or financing for your co also quite boring. Usually is those china man co who want to get access to these funds because their co no money. At first they give you good pay rise, after that your salary cannot increase, no increment.

Better go work for merchant bankers or RAM.