[Anonymous]

How many days are you away from home per week?

[krokofilen]

Apart from my 4 weeks in connection to taking the CPA exam (extraordinary item for 2014), I do some teaching for internal courses at foreign locations for 2-3 weeks every year. Other than that, 1-2 weeks for client related travel at foreign locations.

Big 4 Audit Manager from Europe here to pass the CPA in the U.S. of A in 2014! Niiice!

AUD - 95 / Jul 15 / 130h over 4 weeks
FAR - 86 / Aug 14 / 240h over 4 weeks
(11 week break)

REG - 81 / Nov 14 / 200h over 4 weeks
BEC - 87 / Nov 17 / 30 h over 2.5 days

[MrMustPass]

during summer (walkthrough and gathering evidences), i will be away from home for 4 out of 5 days/week. it would depend on your client and engagement team.

BEC - 77
FAR - 69, 70, 76
REG - Waiting
AUD - Jan 2015

Just Do It.

[Anonymous]

Your mileage will definitely vary depending on what industries you'll be working in.

I work primarily in financial services (hedge funds, private equity etc.) which requires very small amounts of travel away from the office. Aside from trainings, i've only been to various locations outside of the office 3 times since I started 9 months ago. This obviously is very different than someone who works in commercial services or even in the banking section of financial services.

[Anonymous]

depends on who your client is etc. I travel 3 months of the year and 9 months I am local… also depends on the office you work in

[Anonymous]

Depends on your clients. I was on one major insurance client year-round and only traveled for annual trainings. For typical work weeks, I was always home.

[wannabeCPA123]

It depends on what clients you have.

I have one client that is close to home.

and I have 2 other clients that are 50 miles away.

I usually get off work at around 6-7pm unless there is something really important going on.

So… When I have to go to my long-distance clients, I have to get up at 6am, and because of trafffic I usually don't get home until 8 or 9pm. Then I get about an hour to relex. Then I got to sleep at around 11pm and wake up again at 530-600am and do it all over again. I usually don't work weekends until busy season, so it's not that bad to be honest.

FAR 78
REG 87
BEC 78
AUD 78
Passed all exams on first try! Good luck to everyone!

[wannabeCPA123]

It depends on what clients you have.

I have one client that is close to home.

and I have 2 other clients that are 50 miles away.

I usually get off work at around 6-7pm unless there is something really important going on.

So… When I have to go to my long-distance clients, I have to get up at 6am, and because of trafffic I usually don't get home until 8 or 9pm. Then I get about an hour to relex. Then I got to sleep at around 11pm and wake up again at 530-600am and do it all over again. I usually don't work weekends until busy season, so it's not that bad to be honest.

FAR 78
REG 87
BEC 78
AUD 78
Passed all exams on first try! Good luck to everyone!

[Mayo]

I'd say less something like 2-3 weeks out of the year is a lot for me. Take into consideration that 1-2 weeks of that is usually some kind of training related travel.

Mayo, BBA, Macc

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