<p>What sort of travel comes with being a Big 4 Accounting, and how often do you get to travel</p>
<p>I work for a big 4 firm (in Canada). Most of the people who have travelled already had their designation (CA, CPA). Don’t expect to do much travelling until you get your designation. Most people from my office go to Europe or Australia. Everybody that wants to travel, gets to travel. In my office anyway. </p>
<p>If you are talking about in state or province travel-it depends on the area and the client base. </p>
<p>Hope this helps. Accounting is a good field to get into if you want to travel, just don’t expect to do much your first couple of years.</p>
<p>Yea I wanna get my CPA as soon as possible, I’m here in the states</p>
<p>It depends on the clients you’re on. I have a friend who travels 80% of the year, and most of it is in a really crappy small town that just happens to be the headquarters of a huge client. She also requested to be travelling a lot though.</p>
<p>generally speaking, auditors tend to travel a lot more than tax professionals. if you are in audit, it is in your best interest to get the cpa exam out of the way before you even start working. studying for the exam just doesn’t mix well with working.</p>
<p>Would auditing for a Big 4 firm with a CPA get you a lot traveling time in big cities?</p>
<p>It’s not that glamorous. Expect Holiday Inns at small cities/towns. Big cities are covered with their own accounting firms. So you will not be travelling there. Small cities/towns close by will be your main market.</p>
<p>It’s not that glamorous EVEN with offices in big cities. Auditors usually have to drive far to the suburbs that are not as elegant as downtown.</p>
<p>by the way, you’d be making a huge mistake to confuse an audit with a vacation.</p>
<p>I spent a month in Akron, Ohio one week.</p>
<p>You should have changed your username for that one month from “VeryHappy” to “VeryUnhappy”</p>
<p>I have to agree a lot with what has been said. The travel is definitely NOT a vacation. If you are in audit and are traveling, expect to work 10+ hour days while you are out at the client. </p>
<p>I also want to note that there are particular areas of tax that can offer substantial travel, if for some reason that is what you want to do, such as International Tax.</p>
<p>If you are married, or are in any kind of long term relationship, you should think long and hard before requesting to be put in a position that requires a lot of travel. That is unless, you enjoy spending time away from your significant other ; )</p>
<p>How is the pay for people in auditing? Any jobs in the Accounting field that leads to extensive travelling and average-above average accommodations in actual hotels like Marriotts/Sheratons?</p>
<p>Question: what exactly is “international taxation”? I’m still unsure about what makes it different since all countries have different taxation rules.</p>
<p>Are there accounting jobs where you get to hop from mansion to mansion and sleep with insanely hot supermodels and use a jetpack for any reason?</p>
<p>“How is the pay for people in auditing? Any jobs in the Accounting field that leads to extensive travelling and average-above average accommodations in actual hotels like Marriotts/Sheratons?”</p>
<p>The salary starting off is pretty average and varies by city due to cost of living standards (Chicago is upper 50s), but sucks if you look at what it ends up being hourly. You can request to travel a lot for auditing, and I can guarantee you’ll travel a lot if you are involved with Transaction Services (due diligence before acquisitions are made, etc). They put you up in fine hotels…I stayed in a lot of Hilton and Sheraton hotels and I know Marriott is common too. You won’t be at a Super 8 or anything. </p>
<p>I will echo what a lot of people have said. Travel always sounded great when I was in school…and then I actually did it. It’s not glamorous, fun, or exciting. You get tired of eating out/ordering room service, and it’s very easy to gain a lot of weight. Living out of a hotel is not my idea of fun. The only plus side is accumulating lots of airline/hotel/car rental/amex points.</p>
<p>Hey thanks sigkapaccountant. I hate to bother you more but any advice for me? </p>
<p>I attended Purdue for Hotel/Hospitality Management and left after a year due to finances but left with a 2.0 GPA. Transferred to Johnson & Wales in Rhode Island since they gave me a decent aid package and had my major. However, I plan on going back to my home state, New Jersey, due to a more worse financial problem at home. Just applied to Rutgers for their business school to major in Accounting. I’ve been enjoying my Accounting classes I’ve taken and am taking right now. However, I want to stay in the hotel industry since most CFOs and CEOs have a degree in Finance, Accounting,etc. at like Starwood Hotels,etc. When should I take my CPA exam? I heard it has the lowest passing %. Anyway of being prepared for Transaction Services? How is the salary for it when starting? I will have around $80k in debt so starting salary kind of matters. I also love travelling and am a huge fan of getting airline/hotel/car rental points so yeah.</p>
<p>Most students don’t qualify to take the CPA exam until graduation, or at the earliest, the semester before graduation. The qualifications vary state by state. </p>
<p>Transaction Services is not easy to get a job in directly out of school. Most people start in audit and switch. </p>
<p>I’m unfamiliar with east coast starting salaries, this is something you could probably ask your school about. In fact, most of your questions are things you should discuss with a prof/career services. Lastly, GPA is very important in terms of getting into public accounting. You’ll need to be pulling at least a 3.0</p>