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Want an info on work culture in BIG 4?

Karunakar (Professional) (112 Points)

10 May 2007

The students of CA fraternity wonder at times as to how the BIG 4 work and what makes them great & what are the career opportunities in them? Well, i can surely help you in providing the insight and would love to do it. As i want that all the students should THINK BIG, DREAM BIG. Bye!!!

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Yashwanth Jain (70 Points)
Replied 10 May 2007

HI, PLEASE GIVE ME THE INSIGHT OF WORK EXPERIENCE IN BIG 4'S

THANK YOU,

YASHWANTH JAIN

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Karunakar (Professional) (112 Points)
Replied 10 May 2007

Well, Yashwant i would appreciate if you could provide me with your background as to what are you pursuing rigth now in CA. Also, what exactly would you like to know?

Doing Ca (63 Points)
Replied 10 May 2007

hi,
i m doin PE2 ..ll be appearing this may..could u pls tell me as how i can i prepare myself to get into any one of these firms and also pls tell me about the work culture

thnx in advance

Karunakar (Professional) (112 Points)
Replied 10 May 2007

I would like to wish u all the best for ur exams.

Well, the Big 4 emphasise on you as a person, how good are you at technicalities, how eager you are to learn, how can you handle the pressure.It all depends upon whether you are appluing post qualification or as a semi-qualified.

Rajiv (13 Points)
Replied 10 May 2007

karunakar sir what are the factors if applying post qualification but without experience? please reply ........ thank you in advance

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Devashish (31 Points)
Replied 10 May 2007

Hi! Could you please tell me that whether we need to go out of station too while our training in Big4? What are the work timings? What is the nature of work i.e. whether it is office work or field work?

Karunakar (Professional) (112 Points)
Replied 10 May 2007

Well, if you are qualified with no post qual exp., you will be assessed in terms of the type of personality, by the HR of Big 4, if you make it to that, you will be called for the technical interview, wherein, you are expected to know the Accounting Standards, AAS,Schedule VI,CARO, basically what we have been studying in the curriculum.

If you make it to this stage, then you will be absorbed at the executive level.

Karunakar (Professional) (112 Points)
Replied 10 May 2007

Without making it too complicated, i would say 'Yes', be prepared to explore the world. If you are being paid a good amount, be ready for these experiences.

Not all assignments require you to travel out of the city.But yes ,you will be required to do so.

Rajiv (13 Points)
Replied 10 May 2007

Karunakar Sir Thanks for the reply. Do they consider additional qualifications also for eg CA & CS or CA and CWA etc? please let me know ........ thank you in advance again.

Karunakar (Professional) (112 Points)
Replied 10 May 2007

Yes, they do consider additional qualifications.

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Gurav (13 Points)
Replied 10 May 2007

Sir, I have not had very good exposure during articleship only limited audits does this make a difference?

Karunakar (Professional) (112 Points)
Replied 10 May 2007

what is imp is that you should know well what you have done.There is always scope for learning and one keeps on larning till alive, so nothing to worry on that.

Shiv Prakash (164 Points)
Replied 10 May 2007

Mr. karunakar,
I want to know what type of interview questions are asked by BIG4's??
plz give me an idea and any answers that u might suggest.
I wanna know what tpoics are asked in questions as u said AAS,AS,CARO etc. but it all we know that thay ask it but what apecific type of AAS or AS or what exactly from caro or do they ask all of it?
thnx
shivprakash chaurasia
shivprakash_chaurashia @ yahoo.com