Audit Semi Senior Review

Spend a lot of my days working on information prepared by the client and trying to vouch it back to third party information. Spend a lot of time also trying to understand prior year work so that it makes sense to me before i can go about recreating the work done in prior years.

I have learnt many skills since joining BDO, most of which are client facing skills and how to act in a professional environment. I have before more adept at excel skills and I am much more fluid working with excel and am able to do much more complicated things than before

I think it is okay overall. Some of the work can be quite tedious and repetitive sometimes and sometimes the hours can be long in busy season but we are also given plenty of time to revise for exams which is a big benefit of the programme that I am on

The programme is run though the ICAEW which is a very standard and set programme so there is not a lot of room for variability overall. It seems well structures and run well. whenever there are issues it is easy enough to sort out from the training providors end and they are hapy to help

Our employer themselves does not give us so much support with regards to exams but that mainly comes from the training provider BPP. Our exam fees are covered by BDO which I guess is very good support from them but on an actual work based situation they do not do too much.

Our employer themselves does not give us so much support with regards to exams but that mainly comes from the training provider BPP. Our exam fees are covered by BDO which I guess is very good support from them but on an actual work based situation they do not do too much. BPP do a lot to help and often give us catchup emails

I feel that this is really dependent upon the exam being sat at the time. For example, the accounting exam that we sat at the start of the qualification was extremely useful as it comes up almost every day at work and helps to understand work more, but law barely comes up

There is a football teams that plays sometimes and recently there has been a mixed hockey team that has been set up which allows us to play against other companies and at the end of the season there is a big 7 a side tournament to play in which seems fun.

Yes

Overall it is a good place to work, there is good job progression and the work is not too daunting which when you are studying for exams is quite a good thing. The seniors and managers are all very nice and kind and are willing to listen to our opinions

I would recommend to just be yourself although that sounds very corny. The interviewers are very good at their job and make you feel very comfortable and they are able to distinguish good candidates who are just nervous and those who are not as strong or suited to BDO really.