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Hi Everyone!

First of all, Happy New Year! May this year be a successful year for all of you trying to pass the CPA. I recently found out that I passed my last part so now I can move onto planning my weddings. So, my question is what month will the best for an accountant? A little background, im a first year and i started last fall. So far, im assigned to only one big public client and speaking w other second years, they said that i will most likely be assigned for this same client for awhile. Have you of you gone through the same? what criteria did you use to pick what month will be the less burden to the team? any help on this would be greatly appreciated!!!

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[Anonymous]

My thought was more that I wanted a date that I'd be free to celebrate the anniversary of throughout my career, so something outside of standard busy times for accountants. So, with that in mind, my thoughts would be to avoid the very end of the year (if you were in private, could be a lot of year-closing stuff), so probably skip Nov or Dec. Besides, those months are busy with holidays anyway. 🙂 Jan-Apr are out if you stay in public accounting. End of quarters/beginning of next quarter won't be the best for future celebrations, so I'd avoid the last couple weeks and first month of each.

All that being said…my initially thought would've been that mid-summer would be great; now I work at a non-profit with a June 30 FYE, so June 1 – Aug 30 or so is vacation blackout. I'm glad we haven't gotten married yet, cause if I'd gone through all that thought to avoid an anniversary at a no-vacation time and then ended up messing it up, I would've been somewhat disappointed. Flip side is, since we're not married, we celebrate our dating anniversary…which is in tax season. So it's a good thing I'm not in public anymore, but if I ever go back, I'm in trouble. 😀

Depending on how long you plan to take off for your wedding, you might make your best educated guess, discuss with fiance, etc., then talk to your manager with a couple options and say “I want to make sure that my time off doesn't hurt the team, would one of these be better?” or something like that.

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