<p>Say you were to get a job at a Big4 firm out of Undergrad school, you get your CPA, and work for a few years.
after that, what paths are there to follow? Obviously one is just to keep doing what you've been doing but what else is there?
thanks</p>
<p>You have many options:
- Stay where you are to try to make partner
- Move to another firm
- Start your own practice
- Go to law school
- Go work for the government
- Get a managerial job with another corporation.
- Do consulting or go into consulting.</p>
<p>What ever you want. Quit and go back to school for veterinary medicine. I’m prospecting clown schools right now! ;)</p>
<p>thanks taxguy, and tortfeasor those work too lol</p>
<p>Typically if you start at Big 4, people either continue on the partner track at the Big 4, otherwise they exit to industry with one of the firm’s clients, or they go to a smaller CPA firm and go on to partnership there.</p>
<p>For tax people, I talked to one or two that wanted to go to eventually go to Law School to become a tax attorney and 1 person told me (under the table of course) that she wants to leave accounting and go get an MBA and try her hand at banking.</p>
<p>So there’s lots to do. Good luck</p>
<p>yeah it seems as though there’s lots of different things you can branch off into. would it be a good idea to double major in accounting and finance, would that open more doors?</p>