So this week I have been put on an audit job. It was pretty surprising when my manager told me this on Monday, because normally they don't put us on audits until the second work term. And here I am, one month into this, and being put on an audit. (I hope that's a good sign!)
Despite the fact that my group won the audit contest a few months back, and I managed an A in the audit course, the audit theory doesn't make too much sense to me. It just seems so tedious and redundant and obvious to me that I don't get what the point is.
Regardless, the past two days have been interesting. And I find the picture quite amusing......
Little old me....who has had less than six months of classes in accounting/management and spent one month working on files......is sitting there chatting with the financial administrator and VP of the client company......questioning their work and telling them they're wrong!
Me: Why is this amount off by $X?
VP: Oh...it was probably just an input error.
Me: Oh....(wtf...how do you mis-type $5130.73 for $5793.18?!?!....the keys aren't even close!)
And this is the reason I'm half glad that I never got into a big4 firms. Chatting with the client at this point in time is just completely out of the question with the bigger firms. In fact, with big4, you'd never even get to do a file from beginning to end. And so far, I think I've already done like ten all on my own. (Yes...only HALF glad....although I should be thankful because I know I've been a lot luckier than other people this year.)
Back to the client again tomorrow. If all goes as planned, we should finish the field work by the end of tomorrow. I'm sure the client has had enough of us already.
For some reason these two days have really taken a toll on me. I'm already extremely tired by lunch time, and these two nights I can barely stay awake.
Time to hit the pillow......
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