In public you get to exposures to many different areas and many different clients. For example, you might need to understand the basics of what 5-different people do at a given client (understand cash, AR, OPEX, Revenue, Equity, etc, etc), now multiple this by the number of clients you have. For myself, my primary client is a public tech company, so I have them for year end and quarterly work and between quarters I do audits of growing private tech companies. Its kind of the best of both worlds, experience on a public engagement and experience on private engagements. Both have their own unique challenges which keeps things interesting.
On the other hand, BOTH HAVE THEIR OWN UNIQUE CHALLENGES WHICH KEEPS THINGS MADDENING!!! Haha. Due to the nature of the work and the timelines, public accountants tend to work longer hours than their private counterparts, however this usually isn't a year-round thing (although there are occasions during “non-busy season” where the hours get turned up and thats never fun).
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