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My life is a living hell!

Dr. Detroit

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No time to rant, too fvckin busy working................. I think we may postpone the filing till the 16th. That just means 1-extra day of prolonged hell!


Oh how I despise the PCAOB, SOX 404, and my Partner who kept me at work till 1am Satruday night!

Anyone else working in Finance feeling my pain?

















 

Orsorum

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I'm going to work for a big 4 as an intern this summer.. but I'''mmm not dooinnng audddittt. :D
 

DaTT

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My GF works in finance......she's always miserable with work.
 

frankie38

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SOX has been berry berry good to me! cmon Sarbanes Oxley is transferring wealth from corporate america to te BIG 4 and professional services like mine.

The best part is that is not over, its just getting started!
 

Dr. Detroit

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Yeah, Sarbanes Oxley 404 Certification........

Very good to the partner group, I'm sure our revenues in the Big4 4 will be a landmark year. But the staff is overworked and burdened by this process to no end.

Bonus payouts have helped with the job satisfaction but burnout is still occuring.


And for the tax guys laughing....... I had tax staff on my job testing controls, reviewing the risk & control matrix, and completeing all the tax steps in my database!




 

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Originally posted by: Fmr12B
Yeah, Sarbanes Oxley 404 Certification........

Very good to the partner group, I'm sure our revenues in the Big4 4 will be a landmark year. But the staff is overworked and burdened by this process to no end.

Bonus payouts have helped with the job satisfaction but burnout is still occuring.


And for the tax guys laughing....... I had tax staff on my job testing controls, reviewing the risk & control matrix, and completeing all the tax steps in my database!

Haha, dammit! I'll get my turn in an audit rotation all the same. But still, that's a few years away.
 

KLin

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I blame Enron for SOX like the San Quentin inmates blame Richard Allen Davis for the 3 strikes law :p.
 

Dr. Detroit

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Oh SNAP!

It's 11:40 pm and I've been here since 9am....... No fvckin end in site!


I hope the printers can handle all our 10K comments or were gonna be filing on the 16th!









 

thegimp03

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wow, this is what i'm looking forward to, though i did an internship last summer and worked 3 weeks on 404 work...it was great, nobody knew how to do anything. im starting full time at a big 4 in august

bye bye life. :/
 

saltedeggman

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Originally posted by: thegimp03
wow, this is what i'm looking forward to, though i did an internship last summer and worked 3 weeks on 404 work...it was great, nobody knew how to do anything. im starting full time at a big 4 in august

bye bye life. :/

thats nice, congrats
 

Dr. Detroit

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Originally posted by: thegimp03
wow, this is what i'm looking forward to, though i did an internship last summer and worked 3 weeks on 404 work...it was great, nobody knew how to do anything. im starting full time at a big 4 in august

bye bye life. :/

You got that right!

Bye Bye life!

Been doing this almost 5yrs, it's my 5th busy season. Whats Amazing is that at 12:15am I have my Manager, Partner and two staff right alongside me plugging away.



 

saltedeggman

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Originally posted by: Fmr12B
Originally posted by: thegimp03
wow, this is what i'm looking forward to, though i did an internship last summer and worked 3 weeks on 404 work...it was great, nobody knew how to do anything. im starting full time at a big 4 in august

bye bye life. :/

You got that right!

Bye Bye life!

Been doing this almost 5yrs, it's my 5th busy season. Whats Amazing is that at 12:15am I have my Manager, Partner and two staff right alongside me plugging away.


well it will pay off eventually...
 

Dr. Detroit

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Originally posted by: saltedeggman


well it will pay off eventually...


Not so sure the payoff is worth it, I have given up a good chunk of my life for this and I have a family so its hard. Then again building a career thats highly valued by others within 5yrs assuring me that wherever I go I'll be a shoe in for a good job is pretty satisfying. Its a much more well respected profession outside othe pulbic accounting arena, those who work it hate it. Those who don;t value the hell outta us!



 

saltedeggman

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Originally posted by: Fmr12B
Originally posted by: saltedeggman


well it will pay off eventually...


Not so sure the payoff is worth it, I have given up a good chunk of my life for this and I have a family so its hard. Then again building a career thats highly valued by others within 5yrs assuring me that wherever I go I'll be a shoe in for a good job is pretty satisfying. Its a much more well respected profession outside othe pulbic accounting arena, those who work it hate it. Those who don;t value the hell outta us!


life full of trade-offs, be grateful, my friend