Accounting for Students

The year of 2018 was a year full of realizations, changes, and adjustments. In my last entry, I said that I shall do a better job next audit season. But that has changed and here's what happened.  Every year, or as often as I can, I take long vacations. But the vacation that has changed the direction of my life was when I took a backpacking trip in Southeast Asia for eleven (11) days. My friend and I entered Vietnam from Manila and exited Singapore to Manila. It was a long and dramatic trip but the details will be disclosed in another blog dedicated to travelling. I went back to work with mixed feelings and a little bit unsure of how I manage my life.  There were a two factors that made me feel that way, one I am financially unsecured. My current job will not be able to support the lifestyle I want. Two, I have no work motivation at all. I still did my job, a decent job, but I just couldn't feel like I was excited to do the job. I couldn't feel my heartbeat racing...

I believe there is a huge improvement in my audit skills and knowledge for the past year. I have also learnt to adapt with different kinds of people and find ways to adjust in order to smoothly proceed with the audit engagements. Learning to set aside personal issues and comfort and prioritize the course of the audit is probably the achievement I am most proud of this season. I have also chosen not to whine and clamour over things that have happened already and hope for the best moments to come instead of wallowing in the past. I also believe that my growth is 80% dependent on my own efforts and 20% dependent on the guidance of my superiors. I do not expect them to give me special preferences or attention, because I am not cute, adorable or kind. I am well aware that I prefer on working alone and take control over things but I am also willing to work with both difficult and easy people. The more challenging the engagement is, the more excited I am to work on it. But there are also ti...

I'm on my second season of audit already and it feels like I've been working for five years. Maybe it's because I only had two month of slacking in which I manage to take an out of country vacation for my birthday and an impromptu travel to the north and experience "surf break" at Elyu (La Union). You can check my travel blog, Travelling for Less, if you're interested to know about my travel adventures.   Actually, I have come to a realization that audit is not that bad. It's not great either, but it's not bad. My pay is "okay" which is one of the reasons I can't say this is a great job. However, I can actually plot my vacations and manage my time in order to provide the necessary output to gain my bosses' "vacation approval". I guess, unlike other low ranking auditors, I consider myself one of the lucky ones who managed to get hired by an awesome audit group.  I like my group, NHC group, under Miss NHC. You'll h...