[Languistic]

I’m considering making a switch and getting into internal audit. My question is, how do I get in? Most positions I see require some type of experience. Is my best bet to go the public route and get external auditing experience or do I get into a corporate accounting role and try to transfer over internally.

CA Candidate

FAR - 71, 75
REG - 80
BEC - 73, 79
AUD - 51, 73, 70, 77

Ethics - 90%

[Anonymous]

why the heck would you want to do something like that?

[Anonymous]

why the heck would you want to do something like that?

[MustPass1988]

In response to @annony- I'm in internal audit and love it. I've gotten to travel to Europe twice and have two more work trips to Europe this summer and fall. It's a great department to springboard from.

Yes, I would get some experience in public and then go into IA.

AUD: PASSED [81]; Expired, retaking August 23rd
BEC: PASSED [83]; Expired, retaking July 11th
REG: PASSED [83]
FAR: FAILED [64]; Retaking May 23rd

[MustPass1988]

In response to @annony- I'm in internal audit and love it. I've gotten to travel to Europe twice and have two more work trips to Europe this summer and fall. It's a great department to springboard from.

Yes, I would get some experience in public and then go into IA.

AUD: PASSED [81]; Expired, retaking August 23rd
BEC: PASSED [83]; Expired, retaking July 11th
REG: PASSED [83]
FAR: FAILED [64]; Retaking May 23rd

[Anonymous]

Languistic,

I can speak for the CPG (consumer products goods) industry. We recruit kids right out of college, and send them all over the world for two years. Having your CPA actually makes you overqualified for entry level IA. If you have no experience, then are you still in college? If yes, then I am sure companies recruit at your university. Nestle in SoCal and Clorox in Oakland are the big CPG companies in California. I brought my financial analyst from IA to sales finance, and he loved audit. Our CEO also started as an auditor 30+ years ago, but he also started out in public accounting.

If you can go public for two years then you can come into industry as a senior internal auditor, get your MBA eventually, then move to corporate accounting or finance.

[Anonymous]

Languistic,

I can speak for the CPG (consumer products goods) industry. We recruit kids right out of college, and send them all over the world for two years. Having your CPA actually makes you overqualified for entry level IA. If you have no experience, then are you still in college? If yes, then I am sure companies recruit at your university. Nestle in SoCal and Clorox in Oakland are the big CPG companies in California. I brought my financial analyst from IA to sales finance, and he loved audit. Our CEO also started as an auditor 30+ years ago, but he also started out in public accounting.

If you can go public for two years then you can come into industry as a senior internal auditor, get your MBA eventually, then move to corporate accounting or finance.

[Author]

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