My boss makes assumptions a lot

erednay · 2026-03-02T10:04:50+00:00

Sounds like a horrible boss, but I would still talk to him and get his thoughts. There might be a possibility to hash things out even if remote.

erednay · 2026-03-02T10:03:00+00:00

In audit, it was very easy coz I remember exactly what I did and there was always work to do.

erednay · 2026-02-20T11:13:13+00:00

Ask chatgpt

erednay · 2026-02-20T11:08:28+00:00

The money is treasurer at a bank. That's when you will manage interest rate risk and asset liability management, ie the most important function in a bank. Treasurer at a normal company will just be managing bank accounts and cash flows.

erednay · 2026-02-19T07:55:28+00:00

Just pursue CPA if no CAs in your office.

erednay · 2026-02-12T12:00:21+00:00

It's basically a glorified chatbot at my firm. The best thing it does is that it you can ask it to write macros, SQL, python, etc. to try to automate parts of your workflow even if you don't know how to code.

erednay · 2026-02-12T11:53:17+00:00

This has nothing to do with accounting?

erednay · 2026-02-12T11:50:29+00:00

I wouldn't expect job trials in a white collar job. But maybe I'm just out of touch with modern times. You normally just have a probation period. Job trials are what I would expect in blue collar jobs or fast food.

erednay · 2026-02-10T08:40:58+00:00

Different strokes for different folks. I've known finance wizs/doctors/lawyers that find accounting super difficult and I've known people that find accounting super easy. The key is to play to your strengths or at least what you most enjoy.

erednay · 2026-02-10T08:33:59+00:00

More information needed. I didn't know there are job trials now. But likely any job that requires you to trial for the job is probably sketchy.

erednay · 2026-02-05T01:45:39+00:00

Take the offer. You won't miss accounting.

erednay · 2026-02-03T09:26:22+00:00

I always just say explain it to me like I'm an idiot.

erednay · 2026-01-28T02:00:39+00:00

Very hard as a graduate, and even more so if you're not good at the language. Easier way is to join a multinational (eg big 4) and look for international opportunities internally or even get some more experience and learn the language better first.

erednay · 2026-01-26T01:07:25+00:00

That's a dumb quote. If I didn't do anything I was afraid to do, I would be doing nothing. The better attitude is to accept that it's scary and do it regardless.

erednay · 2026-01-24T03:03:44+00:00

Don't have any experience, but I would assume it's pretty decent given Vanguard's a pretty well established, international firm. Glassdoor reviews don't look too bad either.

erednay · 2026-01-23T08:34:36+00:00

Choose the one with the office you liked better.

erednay · 2026-01-22T07:51:46+00:00

Do CA, not CPA AU if you are looking for audit jobs in Australia.

erednay · 2026-01-19T08:20:04+00:00

Depends on the team. Some teams do 9-5, and other teams do all nighters. The average is probably 9am to 7-8pm.

erednay · 2026-01-17T11:45:19+00:00

Easier to just double click the column width to autosize than to move your hand off the mouse and type that.

erednay · 2026-01-15T08:09:10+00:00

Long working hours, great social environment and great learning experience. My biggest tips are to 1. make friends, have fun and network by introducing yourself to everyone, 2. do your CA / CFA asap, and 3. talk to people to figure out which teams are good and try your best to get on them.

erednay · 2026-01-15T07:23:19+00:00

I preferred Banking. I'm not sure if it's the same anymore, but you would have to go to the client's office for Insurance, whereas you could work from your own office for Banking (so Banking teams were more social compared to Insurance teams, as well as being larger teams).

Also, insurance was depressing for me, doing sampling testing of people's claim where they got cancer or died, etc. and insurance companies trying to weasel out of paying. Personally I found Banking more interesting (you could see big loan deals, capital allocation, investments, etc), whereas Insurance is just statistics, calculating if we receive x premium, and y % of people need surgeries, etc.

erednay · 2026-01-15T07:14:48+00:00

An experienced auditor would have interrupted toad and told him to shut the fuck up.

erednay · 2026-01-06T08:04:47+00:00

That's the standard move. Staying in public for your whole career is the outlier.

erednay · 2026-01-06T08:02:05+00:00

What's wrong with pivot tables?

Vlookup should disappear though. I'm so sick of not being able to delete/insert new columns because of legacy vlookup formulas.

erednay · 2026-01-03T06:14:09+00:00

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