[Anonymous]

It’s mid-Feb and I somehow have office time. Started getting busy in December and I was only able to take advantage of three days of firm shut down because of it. All the sudden the engagement manager tells me that we’re way ahead in the audit and, since most of my assigned FSLIs were reviewed and signed off, to head downtown for some G&A time at the office and wait until I get booked on one of the pending clients we’re bidding on. Last week I had a PIO and that’s about the extent of my labor other than the associated documentation and a few snapshots I’ve been needing to initiate. All I have on my schedule now is some PIOs and then a client in May. Going home at 5 and having Saturdays off is nice but sitting in an empty audit section in the office and surfing the web all day is boring. I’d honestly rather be booked at a client.

[Anonymous]

Can we trade lives? Haha

But seriously, take a breather and give yourself a day to relax. Maybe get in some CPE. Go home at 5, get a good night's sleep, and then maybe reach out to managers tomorrow to see if any projects need some help.

[fuzyfro89]

Strange, but it happens.

I remember at my prior firm, there would be a handful of staff who would come available in late Feb/early Mar after the accelerated filing date since there were less hours needed once the client had filed to clean up the audit and finish some afterwork.

I will say that it does stink to be one of the few unassigned people because you generally get picked up for random stuff that can be explained quickly and is usually pretty simple, but it's all part of the learning process. Tying out reports and footnotes, organizing files, referencing stuff, etc.

Enjoy the time off, reach out to a few people that you know (or even some that you don't) to offer some of your time.

[rp 12]

@CPA33: Sounds like you are in PwC. It happened to me as well. Sometimes schedules go un-noticed. I was unassigned for 3 weeks, and PwC send utilization reports by end of everyweek or 2. And this is sent to all partners, managers, and rest of the staff leveles as well. As CPAmule mentioned take a break relax or 5 days or so, and then reach out to you schedule coordinator and she/he can help you getting placed in an engagement.

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[Anonymous]

Back to normal. They updated retain today and I'm nice and booked with 55+ billable hour weeks until May1. Break was nice.

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