[sancasuki]

Or they asked you to do other kinds of grunt work, such as scanning 200 pages. Like you felt that you were being treated like a secretary rather than an accountant.

[sancasuki]

Well in public, you aren't dealing with a dead-end job. In a lot private industry jobs there is no chance of promotion unless someone dies, quits, or retires. Or maybe that's just small companies. My supervisor from Chicago obviously thought he was too good to mail anything himself. I felt like they were trying to turn me into the AP lady that sat next to me. Thanks, but no thanks.

[Anonymous]

As staff or even a Senior, you are pretty much expendable. Regardless if you are a first year or even fifth year employee, you can consider all your time at the firm to be TRAINING and should be thankful to have the opportunity to dig your nose around in their client's files.

I've worked in many competitive firms, and if you have work to do and are getting paid for it, be thankful.

When you do have actual accounting work, be sure to ask the right questions, show confidence in your ability, and be friendly at all times. That way you will become a trusted and accountable person. In public accounting especially, your personal values should be put on the back burner. That's whats considered being a professional.

[MOAC]

sorry but accountants shouldn't be doing grunt work. That's not why they went to school for 4-6 years plus the CPA. It's perfectly fine to scan in the documents, even hundreds of it if you're on the engagement team/working on that assignment but if that's your one of your main job or you are the one who's scanning in then I am sorry you're at the wrong place. As an accountant you have to see what goes into your resume and I can't picture, “scanned 300 documents everyday” on my resume or anyone's else resume. It's not about getting paid only it's about learning and developing as well.

FAR May 2012 81 (lost credit, didn't sit for other sections.)
FAR 86 Aug 2015
AUD 85 Nov 2015
BEC 84 Dec 2015
REG 78 Mar 2016

Passed ALL sections in first attempt!!

[Missy]

So their supervisor/boss should do it themselves because a less senior position has a degree and passed a tough exam? I'm always floored at the sense of entitlement someone has when they pass the exam. You still have to start at the very bottom you're no better than the janitor or less than the president. So glad I'm not hiring any new CPA's.

Licensed Massachusetts Non Reporting CPA since 2012
Finance/Admin/HR Manager

[Son]

@circadian malfunction – well, your boss obviously WAS too good for this task. You were his direct report and had availability. Why would a person who has more experience than you and whose time is more expensive do grunt work in this case?

Agree completely on the development part; if it's a dead end job, get out. But if your issue is entitlement, it will seriously impede your career anywhere you work.

AUD - passed
REG - passed
BEC - passed
FAR - passed

[ScarletKnightCPA]

Well yes, you have a degree and a CPA, but so does everyone else. The days of a CPA or college degree holder being too good for a job are over, there is not enough slack or admin assistant employees without degrees to complete that kind of work at companies anymore. Just the way the new economy is with companies leaning up and cutting the fat.

Far: 76 (Wiley Test Bank)
Aud: 77 (Wiley Test Bank)
Reg: 61, 76 (Wiley book, Wiley Test Bank)
Bec: 86 (Wiley Test Bank)

MBA in progress

[Author]

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