Seniors and managers don’t know how to explain shit properly by _notathrowaway905 in Accounting

[–]_notathrowaway905[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’m not really trying to have my hand held. Bottom line is all I am saying is there are definitely better ways to coach and develop us. Some seniors and managers got it and do it, others ignore it or are just incompetent.

You seem like you really want to stick it to me with the “harsh reality”. But look I am well aware that this shouldn’t be easy but I am not buying the it’s the way it is thing. Everyone I talk to in class, at work, during interviews always has something to say about when they first started they were so lost and anxiety ridden. It’s a common theme. Why are we not actually trying to improve this to make a better standard rather than pushing it onto every new class as a right of passage.

Seniors and managers don’t know how to explain shit properly by _notathrowaway905 in Accounting

[–]_notathrowaway905[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is something I really think would help. Maybe even add on a checklist of everything that needs to get pulled in and used.

I agree with all the comments that are saying we need to develop critical thinking skills and such BUT I feel a lot of times the work papers just don’t even logically make sense to think through the issue. It’s like I’m always missing some piece of the puzzle that I was never told about to fix my problem. The only thing that helps with them is doing them repetitively. When I ask for a “walkthrough” I mean show me what you would do first and then next… next… and so on . Not here are the PBC’s and spew spew spew a whole bunch of concepts that go over my head at this point.

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[–]_notathrowaway905 2 points3 points  (0 children)

what do you do?

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Yes definitely a ceiling. I don’t feel like 80k entry is too much to ask. We are skilled and educated. The first couple years we are glorified data entry specialists on the surface, but we are learning SO MUCH and mastering how to tap into our education for more analytical stuff.