Accounting for Students

Time flies so fast that I haven't even noticed how much I've grown in audit - experience-wise not physically, though yes, I too have fattened up myself in the span of 9 months that I have been working. Let me tell you what has happened in the last 9 months. At first, I was just a "footer and cross-referencer" of the face of financial statements and the notes to FS. Then I was assigned to worked on a couple of companies under one group, under the printing industry. I had to do a lot of things which I am not well acquainted with. I felt so lazy and uninspired to do my work. However, I was under the care of a very kind and helpful senior that my conscience started bugging and forced my lazy ass to work everyday. I was struggling during the first few months with my first real audit clients, putting emphasis on the "Planning Stage". I did not know what  kind of procedures to do and I am not really the type of person to keep on bugging my seniors on issues I...

I wasn't excited to go to work that Monday. I was there 30 minutes earlier than the time I was suppose to report. When I arrived the HR wasn't there yet. There was suppose to be someone who will start with me that day but he arrived late. His name is Kevin. The HR gave me an orientation about the company and all and Kevin arrived after the orientation. The HR was suppose to give a tour of the office but I said that I'll just wait for Kevin's orientation to finish and he can give as both a tour of the office, and so that's what happened. After that, we were left at the juniors' area where auditors face their laptops and I had no idea what they're doing. So we introduced ourselves and Sir Derek talked to us. There was also another new hire who started coming to office a week before us, her name is Ram for Ramona. Haha! Sorry Ram. Anyway, Ram was holding the very thick auditing manual and I wondered if she was reading it. I have always thought that I should ...

I'm writing this post now because I can't sleep and I'll start working tomorrow for BDO Alba Romeo and Co.. I have never thought of working for BDO. I haven't even heard of it till I passed the CPA exam. I have always wanted to work for Deloitte and Deloitte only. But it seems that I wasn't cut for their criteria because I was never the normal kind of Accountancy student anyway. All that I have posted here before were academic related. But since my last blog post, I'll start posting on how it really is when you become a CPA. I have always thought that life will just fall into places once I pass the board exam. My friends thought so too. Luckily for them they got accepted at the Big 4. I did apply for 6 big firms in the country. All invited me for an exam and interview except for SGV. I never wanted to work for SGV anyway because everybody wants it and I want to want a different thing. Yes, I experienced walking under the heat of the sun and the cold showers of ...