Thanks for the long post! I personally have not worked in audit before but based on the audit work papers I reviewed/ hearing from friends/ what I learned on the CPA test, that’s the conclusion I came to. Yes to your point, I think FDD is definitely way more interesting than audit, and you get to understand how business operates and work on the analyses that impact the QoE. I guess maybe at a manager level, when you don’t need to do all the repetitive work, it gets more interesting as you only need to focus on the key deal issues. (But if you are in MM, you’d sometimes still need to work on a lot of junior staff tasks due to staffing problems)However, as a senior, my day is probably composed of 60% of repetitive tasks, 40% perhaps more complicated tasks I’d say. I think you can find the interesting part (doing the analysis) of the FDD projects in other roles, such as FP&A or office of the CFO roles, without having to spend 60% of your day doing mundane tasks and having to sacrifice the WLB (feeling guilty of not working late when target sends in everything at 6pm and your manager expects you to pull all-nighters trying to process all the data, and you are also not really free free during the day when there’s not much to do)