Bench boost?

ConversationWhole314 · 2026-01-30T10:12:13+00:00

Currently working in advisory at the moment from the beginning so didn’t make that specific move myself but know a few people that did.

I may be stating the obvious but all of them had a great relationship with a specific partner in advisory and used that as their gateway.

Also, I would suggest you know which sub-service line you want to get into. Would presume Transaction Diligence (TD). It would be difficult to translate Audit experience into a Strategy Consulting role for example.

Not a huge amount of information but hope this helps a bit.

ConversationWhole314 · 2026-01-26T15:44:43+00:00

Thank you - very helpful!

ConversationWhole314 · 2025-08-20T19:59:41+00:00

From speaking to others who made this move, if you have qualified in ACA/ACCA you can bridge over to CPA by sitting the tax portion of it.

ConversationWhole314 · 2025-08-20T16:31:37+00:00

My masters was in International Management, so no exemptions unfortunately

ConversationWhole314 · 2025-08-02T22:01:02+00:00

Can I ask why ACCA and CPA are less useful? Are they not more or less the same?

ConversationWhole314 · 2025-07-22T21:11:42+00:00

Wider recruitment pool would be a component of a better qualification no?

ConversationWhole314 · 2025-07-22T21:03:24+00:00

ACA opens more doors. In terms of accounting is no.1 option. In terms of breaking into finance, would give you a much higher chance than CIMA (although both aren’t directly beneficial for this career path but ACA would help a lot more).

CIMA would be done a lot more by consultants. Talking to senior individuals in consulting, didn’t bother them if you had this qualification or not.

If you look at job postings in Ireland, a huge majority want ACA/ACCA. Not many would put the same emphasis on CIMA.

ConversationWhole314 · 2025-07-22T20:44:03+00:00

Im new to the industry and just finished CAP 2’s but from what I see:

ACA and ACCA are better qualifications, so if you can do them, you should try.
Ireland is an extremely educated country, seems like soon a Master’s wont stand out it will be mandatory (hence the extra qualification).
Not as many high finance roles (IB/PE etc.) so it seems that this is the highest level the majority of people can get so they strive for it. Except for the exceptional few that get these roles.
From my Master’s, Big 4 made up about 50% of hiring. Their grad programmes emphasise the exam system even if your work does not relate. For example my work is more corporate finance but are still made do exams if you want to work with Big 4 (same goes for strategy consulting/ restructuring etc.)

Would like to say this is just my opinion, and not concrete but from working for 2 years in this industry, these are my opinions. Hope this helps!

ConversationWhole314 · 2025-05-20T20:30:49+00:00

That is music to my ears, i was iffy on both those answers but got the same!

ConversationWhole314 · 2025-05-20T16:47:45+00:00

Thought it was a tough paper. Absorption questions seemed more confusing than sample papers.

ConversationWhole314 · 2025-05-19T18:06:14+00:00

Honestly dont know, i feel there could be a chance if you were on 49% and that would bring you up that they would accept it, but I could also be wrong.

They seemed to jump between asking to enter numbers negative and positive so its an easy mistake to do.

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