[2012passtheCPA]

Hi All! For those of you who have worked as auditors in public accounting, how much traveling did you do (1 week per month)? When you did travel, on average how far away from “home” did you travel?

[WICPA06]

It all depends on what client you get assigned to. I would also guess you will be traveling more than 1 week a month, especially during busy season.

My girlfriend is a auditor in a big 4 and has been on the client site for 5 weeks in a row now. The client is about 1.5-2 hours away.

She has co-workers that travel half way across the country for certain clients. There really isn't an easy answer. It all depends on what client(s) you get assigned to.

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[Anonymous]

As @WICPA06 said, it isn't an easy answer.

Really depends on office and client.

[Anonymous]

I'm an auditor for a mid/regional size firm in California, so we have clients in town and as far as 5-6 hours away. If you work for a mid to large size firm, there is a good chance they will have some out of town jobs, so busy season you can expect to be gone a good chunk of time. My worst “audit year” had me stay 120 days plus out of town, but I'm expecting to cut down to 60 days this year. Mind you this is spread out across the whole year.

[Keely]

I'm at a small firm, and we only travel out of town four or five times a year, the farthest being about four hours away. It's only for several days at a time, not weeks. +++ of being at a small firm.

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[TheBsEr]

I work for a big 4 and we mostly work either downtown in the office or at client site in the suburbs (about an hr of commute). I heard there use to be more traveling out of state but since the recession hit, a lot of the engagements are cutting down on that.

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[Whatdidyou]

We only really travel for trainings. Most clients are within a 30 minute commute from our office. Only a couple out of town engagements in our office – which odds are you won't get assigned to.

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[MustPass1988]

I worked for a midsize public accounting firm until a few months ago and I traveled all the time. I only had one in town client…if I'm remembering correctly I was out of the office 17 or 18 weeks in 2012. Most of those were M-F clients and a handful were M-Th. During busy season, I was out of the office 8 weeks in a row. It was crazy…yeah, you can probably guess why I left… 🙂

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[Anonymous]

It mostly depends on the client. I'm in the Bay and my commute has been 2 hours each way the past few weeks. Good thing I roll off Friday 😀

The client before was only 40 minutes away, but we were pushing 72 hours a week O_O

I'm tired.

[junpark]

I also work for a small regional firm. Personally, I do not travel much, but there are people from our company that has been assigned to traveling engagements. If they are big, they travel weeks at a time. If it's not as big but still requires traveling, maybe a week tops.

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