Graduate accounting positions (2 Viewers)

[huangker]

The more I look at it, the more it seems to me that if you are doing a Com/Law degree and you are looking to get a job from the commerce side of your degree, the extra two years you do is more branding than anything else.

 

[Meads]

That's what I think anyway- unless you got the job as a lateral recruit (ie. degree/specialisation in a particular field such as Engineering). I also think in the long run, it's your post-grad qualifications which make the difference. But then this topic (I think) is talking more short-term initial salaries upon graduation from uni.

Totally agree.

And yes the points I was making on salary was only in regards to the initial 12 months as a grad.

There is no doubt that after that the way your salary moves will differ greatly to everyone else.

 

[Conspirocy]

all you guys talk about is pay...how boring


here is a question, what do you think you would do if you were getting paid the least out of everyone on an equal level. how would you go about changing that.

personally i think that if u are always talking about pay, eventually its going to bite you in the ass. there are more things to a job than pay, dont u take pride in your work. ive always seen money as a side effect of being successful, maybe its not important to me.

this was a thread started to offer tips to someone starting their job, talking about pay is pretty useless. --> i mean there are other things going on in organisations: how to deal with people, what to do/not to do (maybe continuing talking about pay is a thing not to do), how to get the good jobs, how to get more experiance etc im sure there is more

i dunno...im not attacking anyone, just how i feel

end rant

 

[seremify007]

TBH, pay is an important aspect of ANY job. Nonetheless though, if this was purely about pay, then we'd hit the whole IB vs. Big4 debate again.

 

[turtleface]

I WANT MORE PAY!!!!
Pay is the sole driver of me as well as every IB aspirant.

I mean really, everyone going for IB is driven by money and money only. Why else would you apply for IB?

Size of remuneration is the sole "Pro" of IB and the other factors are just "Cons" e.g. long work hours, boring work, no self fufillment from your job. No purpose in life etc.

Accounting also suffers from the above, just not as bad as IB does. Obviously arbitrage theory dictates that the pay will be lower to compensate for the lower hours, lower boringness and slightly higher self fulfillment from an (allegedly) more noble activity in Auditing.

 

[velox]

I WANT MORE PAY!!!!
Pay is the sole driver of me as well as every IB aspirant.

I mean really, everyone going for IB is driven by money and money only. Why else would you apply for IB?

Size of remuneration is the sole "Pro" of IB and the other factors are just "Cons" e.g. long work hours, boring work, no self fufillment from your job. No purpose in life etc.

Accounting also suffers from the above, just not as bad as IB does. Obviously arbitrage theory dictates that the pay will be lower to compensate for the lower hours, lower boringness and slightly higher self fulfillment from an (allegedly) more noble activity in Auditing.

Couldn't have put it more succintly. Although there is that 'buzz' in trading. All the other departments are just ...

 

[ND]

Accounting also suffers from the above, just not as bad as IB does. Obviously arbitrage theory dictates that the pay will be lower to compensate for the lower hours, lower boringness and slightly higher self fulfillment from an (allegedly) more noble activity in Auditing.

What exactly does arbitrage have to do with any of this?

edit: Just realized that you said that accounting is less boring than IB. :rofl:

 

[lizbon]

i don't want to say this but from a general perspective (outside looking in) all officework is the same, it's all boring to an extent. From dept to dept, the supposed skills you need are easily learned in a few months on the job.

 

[seremify007]

Accounting also suffers from the above, just not as bad as IB does. Obviously arbitrage theory dictates that the pay will be lower to compensate for the lower hours, lower boringness and slightly higher self fulfillment from an (allegedly) more noble activity in Auditing.

LOL i nearly forgot that auditors were doing a noble deed to society!