Career Advice - October 2018
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Posted on Tuesday, October 16, 2018 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Profile 3: Quality Assurance professional, in industry Name: Jane McGee Age : 40s Employer: Several organisations serving national and global markets Audit is essentially a career in service. Often it directly provides a public service; sometimes it serves a more immediate group of stakeholders, but ultimately, in some shape or form, it delivers a whole suite of benefits and assurance to the ...
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Posted on Tuesday, October 16, 2018 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Profile 2: The Audit Senior (at a local firm moving to a Big Four firm) Name: Claire Harbourne Age: 20s Employer : Small firm, general practice, started as graduate trainee, making first career move to big four. Claire was just coming up to the end of her ACA training contract when we first met. I wanted to find out how she had made her initial career decision on graduating and how she had found ...
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Posted on Wednesday, October 3, 2018 by Simon Wright for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Many will remember the headlines in October 2001 – when the Enron scandal broke in the news. What followed was not only the bankruptcy of the company, a hefty prison sentence for CEO Jeffrey Skilling and other employees, but also the de-facto dissolution of Arthur Andersen – one of the Big Five. Cited as the biggest audit failure in history, the accountancy profession, which had always played a ...
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Posted on Wednesday, October 3, 2018 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Profile 1: The Big Four Audit Director Name: AG Age: 30s Employer: Single organisation, from graduate trainee, twenty years and counting… AG is your complete audit specialist. External audit is what she does, has always done and even after twenty years of honing her expertise, audit, remains, to this day, her professional passion. As a big four audit director, her technical abilities in audit and ...
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Posted on Wednesday, October 3, 2018 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Is there really any other profession as diverse as assurance and compliance audit? Even after working in, and with, the audit profession for over thirty years, I am still astonished at the sheer range of careers, roles, individuals and skills that our profession attracts. As president of my district society of chartered accountants, I currently have an unprecedented, privileged and highly ...