Advice – starting on monday

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  • #191240
    hneagle1
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    I’m starting at Deloitte this Monday! I’m excited, yet so so nervous to be starting right into busy season. I took off this past semester to just work on my CPA and just getting started working full-time this winter. I was wondering if anyone had any advice/tips to get off on the right foot during busy season. Thank you so much for your help and advice!!!

    FAR - 82 (8/30/14)
    AUD - 95 (10/7/14)
    REG - 82 (11/7/14)
    BEC - 85 (11/26/14) - PEACE OUT!
    Roger CPA, WTB, Becker, and Ninja Notes (with added prayer, tears, and hope!)

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  • #637397
    northernlights
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    Don't stress. Don't worry about asking too many questions. Don't worry that you aren't smart enough. Don't think that this is coming naturally to anyone else. Don't spend any hours your are not at the office thinking about the office or anything acct related.

    Do be nice to your admins (they will save your ass again and again over the tax season). Do write things down, particularly who asked you to do what, and who they said to go ask for help if you have questions. Do try to relax in your off hours, and be happy that you are done, and aren't trying to study anymore 🙂

    FAR: 55, 52, 66
    REG: 84*
    AUD: 54, 70, 73, 72, 79!!!
    BEC: 75*

    *expired

    #637398
    Anonymous
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    I also work in Big 4 but I started in September last year. It seems that you are a new hire based on you stating that you took off the fall to work on the CPA (congrats on passing it!). The person above me made some great points that you should take note of! But I also want to point out some stuff that you should also take note of that people won't put to you straight. I wouldn't necessarily tell people that I delayed my hiring to take the CPA. Yes this is your first job, but taking off to take the exam is generally frowned upon in my B4 firm in NYC. There are certain people (not myself obviously) that may resent that, people who have not finished but took the traditional rout of starting in September. Be careful with how you frame why you started later.

    Now on to more important things, you are slightly behind your peers as most have done a Q and/or interim by this point and will be a little more fluid with the audit/tax software and in general the environment of corporate america. Also, coming from a staff perspective, on the job training in B4 can really go either way, so as the previous poster said, take notes when you ask questions.

    If you interned, connect with your friends from your internship (fellow interns and former seniors/staff) and definitely network with your starting class. They will be an important support system for you during busy season, also they will be good to have if you have questions about your typical first year stuff (sample size calc, workpaper templates, etc).

    Your first two weeks will probably be training but the second you get your laptop and get booted up, reach out to the engagement senior and introduce yourself, tell them you're excited, ask what you will be working, ask for the understanding the entity work paper to familiarize yourself with your client and ask if there are things you can get while you're in the home office for them. You can even go the extra mile and ask if they need you to do anything! (Hint hint, ask for access to the EMS file, or if in AS2, as for the PY backup).

    Make contact with your counselor and your OBA also.

    In short, get excited, get ready, and bust you a** off because to show that you can compete with your peers!

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    StephAV
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    Just wanted to wish you the best! So exciting! Have a great first day! Good for you on passing the exam before starting work, that is awesome. Now you can just concentrate on work.

    FAR - 7/13 - 72, 11/13- 74, 2/14- 82!!! Best score ever (for me)!!!
    BEC - 1/14 - 75!!! Perfect score! First Pass! YAY!!!
    AUD - 8/14 - 80!!!
    REG - 5/14 - 72, 10/14 - 66, 1/15 - 78 - DONE FOREVER!!!
    I did 5 of the UNA and CPAExcel classes to earn units.

    #637400
    Anonymous
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    You passed all your exams in 3 months and are starting at a Big4. You'll do just fine. Have a fantastic first day and remember it's only work, it's not your life.

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