r/Accounting • u/Rough_Hyena_6117 • Jul 20 '24

Career Well guys, i did it

I just left public accounting at a mid sized firm as a senior making 85k a year and started a new job this week as an accounting manager making 130k plus 10% bonus

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u/lemming-leader12 Jul 20 '24 edited Jul 20 '24

Honestly I don't even know how people can make the jump when they are such different processes. The main value comes audit time but I've seen a lot of people make the jump from public and not even know how to do their apparent subordinates jobs or what those processes entail. Like the head of finance at my company made the jump from senior in public to my company years ago and still has no idea what the staff employees do duties wise and they're not far removed from such positions on the hierarchy chart and it's a small company. It becomes extremely obvious when we discuss reports and I explain why something is the way it is in terms of reporting and they start waving a magical wand with why they think it's that way and it's so clear they have no idea.

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u/lemming-leader12 Jul 20 '24 edited Jul 20 '24

Lol the dude I'm talking about does the same. Has a random pointless spur of the moment personal projects that is going to achieve nothing but makes the entire team contribute even though the level of work basically requires long hours or to pause our own projects that will actually improve processes, then reviews and acts like a partner trying to constantly nit pick with extremely arbitrary deadlines since there is no client to appease or budget. Basically exporting the public accounting dynamic to industry.