Narrowing the GAAP

Welcome to Narrowing the GAAP – your ultimate guide to the Big 4 accounting firms (i.e. Deloitte, Ernst and Young, KPMG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers) and the life of an accounting professional.

While we hope everyone takes something away from this blog, we started it with two particular audiences in mind: the doe-eyed college students who are thinking of accounting as a career and the Big 4 staff who are trying to make sense of the Big 4 corporate culture.

College students should use this blog to develop a good idea of the life they can expect as an employee at a Big 4 firm, and make an informed decision about whether that lifestyle is for them or not. If you do decide to take the plunge, read up on everything on this site about recruiting. We have been through this process and were successful at getting offers from the Big 4. We have also been on the other end of the recruiting and interviewing process, and have stared down people like you from across the table. You should maximize your chances of an offer by reading and digesting these materials, and then set up your game plan.

Big 4 staff should use this blog to increase their overall productivity and to learn about various ways they can deal with the stress that comes with working for a Big 4. You are not alone in working till midnight on your birthday, or dealing with the passive aggressive manager who seems to unload everything on you the first chance he gets. We were there too, and we survived. Learn from our experiences!

We were motivated to create this blog because we didn’t have these resources and information available to us. The articles here are a result of long discussions with several Big 4 employees, at all levels. We try to be as comprehensive as possible in our writings, so as to provide the reader the best picture possible. However, if you are a Big 4 professional reading this, and feel like you may have something to add to this blog or something you disagree with, we would love to hear from you! We want to share as many different experiences with the audience as possible and we promise to keep all identifying information confidential.

And finally, we would like to thank you, the reader, for all of your feedback and support.

Regards,

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