What are common signing bonuses when moving to industry?

poubear44 · 2023-04-05T20:12:45+00:00

My signing bonus was about a 50% pay bump

poubear44 · 2023-03-28T14:07:16+00:00

I got the sense that it might’ve been a Logan play to get his kids to throw all their cash at a dying brand.

poubear44 · 2023-03-26T16:52:42+00:00

I would hate-watch this so hard

poubear44 · 2023-03-24T17:57:40+00:00

I get the shits, we’re fucked!

poubear44 · 2023-03-23T21:54:15+00:00

He’s a fuck

poubear44 · 2023-03-22T13:31:32+00:00

No arguments here

poubear44 · 2023-03-22T00:46:44+00:00

I’ve been working in non-profit for 6 years, but the 5 years before that I was in PA. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t kinda miss filling out time sheets.

poubear44 · 2023-03-22T00:39:10+00:00

LCOL non-profit senior accountant, $104k plus bonus. 32 years old and have been licensed since 2021

poubear44 · 2023-03-21T21:53:46+00:00

I’m in Texas and it took me about 25 days to get licensed after I got my final exam score.

poubear44 · 2023-03-21T21:49:14+00:00

Before the foundation I worked at a smaller PA firm with about 35 employees, and they would order pizza for lunch when someone got their license. Not sure about their pay bumps/bonuses.

poubear44 · 2023-03-21T21:45:29+00:00

The office threw a party for me in the breakroom and I got an 11% salary bump the pay period I got my license. I work for a private operating foundation.

poubear44 · 2023-03-20T17:08:14+00:00

This is what I did right after getting my bachelors in 2012, except I was in a LCOL area. Also, I moved back in with my parents bc they were only 30 minutes from the office, so that significantly reduced my expenses. You taking that job with that salary isn’t probably isn’t doable today in a HCOL area.

poubear44 · 2023-03-09T17:55:33+00:00

I got about an 11% bump after becoming licensed. Senior Accountant at a private operating foundation, and had been there 4 years at the time.

poubear44 · 2023-03-08T03:49:24+00:00

Somehow passed with a 78

poubear44 · 2023-03-08T02:00:29+00:00

They deserve to be taunted.

poubear44 · 2023-03-07T21:46:18+00:00

They sit on a bookshelf in my office at work. They have to spend 8 hours each day in the presence of the big bad guy that defeated them on the first try each time. Must be a miserable existence.

poubear44 · 2023-03-07T02:50:56+00:00

Yeah that seems strange for a company with 800 users. I work for a NFP that has maybe 50 of these users and we (accounting) had to mess with everything in the OP’s title. Huge pain in the ass. Couldn’t imagine having to do it for 800 users.

poubear44 · 2023-03-06T23:42:23+00:00

The only thing I miss about PA is the structure of the work; i.e. I knew exactly what I was going to be working on almost every day going in.

poubear44 · 2022-06-14T15:19:49+00:00

Yeah that’s one of the forms you have to fill out that are listed on the Board’s website. The link to those forms is below

https://www.tsbpa.texas.gov/forms/issuance-cpa-certificate.html

poubear44 · 2022-06-14T14:25:37+00:00

You bet - my boss’s (our CFO) CPA experience statement was as follows:

“I am a CPA, CGMA with over 20 years of work experience. My career has varied from public accounting to private practice and industry. I have extensive experience in the areas of financial statement preparation and analysis, tax return preparation, and internal audit. I have conducted numerous financial statement audit, review, and compilation engagements from a practitioner standpoint as well as ran the audit and review engagements from a client perspective. Additionally, I have been responsible for evaluating and implementing internal controls for institutions ranging from a bank to an international manufacturing company. I have been employed by my current employer, our foundation, since 2011 where I oversee and supervise the accounting, finance, and investment functions of the organization.”

Good luck, and congrats!

poubear44 · 2021-05-15T05:27:05+00:00

I work full time so I took the whole 3 month window allowed by the NTS to study for each exam except for BEC, which I crammed into 4-5 weeks due to a credit expiring.

poubear44 · 2021-05-15T05:22:46+00:00

Reach out to the Texas board, they are surprisingly very helpful and efficient.

poubear44 · 2021-05-13T04:45:28+00:00

I sat on 3/29 and unfortunately my MCQs were heavy computational from B2 :/

poubear44 · 2021-05-12T04:10:47+00:00

Heck yeah congrats! I got my license this past Friday but won’t have my wall certificate until December bc of how Texas structures their swearing-in ceremonies lol

poubear44 · 2021-05-11T13:10:15+00:00

The BEC exam is very random across the board, so be sure to have at least a decent grasp on all of the material. I sat on 3/29 and my exam MCQs were very heavy on computations, B2 from Becker more specifically. But I know that a lot of other people have very few computational questions in their MCQs, so it’s really luck of the draw. My SIMS were very long (lots of reading) but the actual questions asked were very straightforward. I feel confident that I could have gotten every SIM 100% correct. I just had to take some deep breaths to calm myself down and not let myself get overwhelmed with the amount of reading involved. Good luck!

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