<p>Southpasadena,</p>
<p>If you have worked in those conditions, you know that about half the time you are in a conference room with other members of the team and about half the time you are by yourself. Also, whether you are in a room or not, the work is all designed such that you are working essentially alone on the computer for most of the time–but just trading a few fun comments back and forth to break the monotony of it.</p>
<p>The work with the client mostly consists of walkthroughs and summary reviews–or picking out audit samples to be used in the internal control testing;–hardly what I would call brainstorming–or a real working team.</p>
<p>Like I said, most accounting–unless you are in a financial planning position or a treasury job–tends to be fairly “solitary” until you make audit senior or audit manager–and even then it is mostly done without large-scale teamwork. This is quite a bit different than most other positions–such as program management, production, production planning, procurement, facilities, human resources, marketing, or even info system work, the last of which is solitary only when the program coding and preliminary testing is being done.</p>