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Big 4 Audit is relatively unaffected by the credit crisis... It's the advisory wings that are seriously in the fetal position. Remember that audits are recurring and mandatory.

Size does not = pay (D) Candidates who aren't retarded enough to confuse a company with a professional body

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_auditors is a starting point Big 4 work on corporations. Hence working for them gives you corporate exposure. The experience is widely valued and, whilst everything in life is a pyramid scheme, the possibilities from starting within the big4 are relatively...

Not sure how you expect me to 'verify' whether you will subjectively find work hard but.. Given that you still can't seem to tell the difference between professional associations and companies I'll take a stab and say yes. Its hard. You shouldn't go in this field.

CA is a formal grad diploma in addition to a professional association. Obtaining the qualification involves verbal assessments, written exams, etc. CPA is not technically a grad diploma. To be cpa qualified you sit multi-choice exams I think . My understanding is both are compatible with...

Many jobs ask for CA/CPA qualified but many specify only CA qualified candidates. Incidentally CA is a harder course. I assume by Big4 you mean CA as the Big4 only use CA staff.

Smaller companies tend to be faster They're also less likely to adhere to ICAA's rules/date restrictions (they're all meant to reserve specific days for interviews, ensure all offers are made by a certain date, etc. etc.) In any case most companies would have started reviewing...

^ PwC ? :P

business assurance is IT related... (controls of accounting/business IT systems)

Business advisory = only applicable to tiny clients You're not going to 'do a bit of everything' for Macquarie Bank, for instance Again, consider whether you want a mid-tier career or a corporate career, they're vastly different things

they can take cadets in areas such as insolvency which fall under the advisory umbrella really though if you want to move into advisory doing so as a grad with audit/tax experience is practically a sure thing

< $300? If you plan on getting the job spend at least $500 on a suit that will last you more than one interview. 2-3 good suits should last you at least 2 years. A cheap suit won't. You do want the job, after all?

the tax and legal = big 4 = don't think law. think doing tax returns on a grander/more prestigious scale. If you hate accounting you won't like tax and legal either. Chances are however that you have nfi what accounting involves on a high level and shouldn't worry about it as no matter...

Can't be bothered structuring my answers anymore... here's everything: Co-op = provided by uni, study + work placements with participating companies, earn a study grant (bit over 10k i think?), get to do some short placements at 2 companies (UTS) or 3 companies (UNSW). Both UTS and UNSW co-ops...

I've found economics to be the faculty that cuts the most corners. I conclude this from the foundational subjects, both of which teach nothing in tutorials since they are taken up by people presenting their assessments. Not to mention the macroeconomics mid session, which was obviously...

Do people get cut across the tiers, or just the newbs? I knew banks were cut-throat but damn - some of these places sound like crap.

Who else is going?

Mark - extra curricular are weighted very strongly... as in you can have even relatively mediocre grades but if you have a great background then you stand a good chance. As a general rule if you've been accepted for a first-round interview then HR have deemed your application to be 'good...

I'd say it'd depend on the culture of the company you are applying for. I can think of a few boys-clubs that would love somebody with a resume like that on board... more on the boutique side of things though...

Leoyh in my experience thus far if I'm further out I simply leave earlier. I've never had anybody be anything but supportive in my endeavors of getting to university on time.. Mark for audit, which involves next to no bookkeeping, and (fund custodians aside) not too much photocopying, the...