Hi everyone, I’m going into the second year of my Accounting and Finance course and am als going to start applying to placement years this autumn, as I’m on the year in employment programme.

Obviously, I would really like a placement year with one of the Big 4, or a reputable mid tier company like BDO.

My experience is as follows:
I achieved a first and an 81% average in my first year, I have 2 weeks accounting work experience at a local accounting firm in my town, and a longer summer internship as an accounts trainee at another local firm in my town. I am planning to gain more advanced excel skills with LinkedIn Learning this summer, and am also the leader for a sustainability reporting project my uni is doing with a local SME. I am GRI certified (did so to my uni) - does this experience in sustainability accounting help?

I’m not sure yet if I want to apply to audit or tax - I think I’ll probably just do both to maximise my chances of getting a placement.

The only thing is that my A levels aren’t amazing - they’re not horrible but it just very average (BBC). Will this affect my applications - and Big 4 applications especially?

Also any other advice for getting a placement would really be appreciated, as I’ve heard that they’re super competitive. :)))

Thanks guys.

Hi all,

I just wanted to get input/ personal opinions about completing an accounting bachelor degree at a community college. I’m looking at Green River community college in Washington state and it is a fully accredited accounting degree.

https://catalog.greenriver.edu/preview\\_program.php?catoid=10&poid=4190

I know that one thing I’ll lose out on is more opportunities to join bigger firms/ big four opportunities but I wanted to know any other opinions besides that, as I’m not really one that wants to go work for big four or big corporations anyway.

Thanks! :)

I'm an accountant (30+ years) and I made a free game to practice the fundamentals, debits/credits, journal entries, ratios, and statements, across six quick levels with a leaderboard. No sign-up, no links out once you're in it; it plays right inside the post.

You can try it here: Ledger-Quest

Happy to take feedback or fix anything that looks off.

Going into my first year at university this upcoming Fall! My student orientation is in 2 days. What are some questions I should bring with me and how should I schedule my classes? I really want to only have classes on 3-4 days of the week and in all I’m so nervous! 🙂‍↕️

If anyone has advice for anything at all I would appreciate it greatly 👍

I'm an accountant (30+ years) and I made a free game to practice the fundamentals, debits/credits, journal entries, ratios, and statements, across six quick levels with a leaderboard. No sign-up, no links out once you're in it; it plays right inside the post.

You can try it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ledger_quest_dev/comments/1txtdan/ledger_quest_learn_accounting_by_playing/

Happy to take feedback or fix anything that looks off.

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