[zoctoman]

So I’ve been working in public accounting for almost a year. I worked a tax season at a big company, got axed after the deadline and then joined a wonderful family friendly firm as an auditor. I just realized a couple weeks ago that I finally felt like a legitimate accountant.

I had felt somewhat like an impostor starting out my career, not knowing anything I was doing and fighting against the hard technicalities in software/client documents/procedures etc..

But a couple weeks ago I was finally assigned my “own” audit. Basically, I peformed 95% of a smaller audit all by myself. I was being overseen, but I comfortably worked through the whole audit with minimal questions and then drafted my first complete set of financial statements. I even got to do the whole 990 to boot!

Upon wrapping up with this engagement, I had this feeling I’ve never experienced before…….I was an accountant(auditor)! It was extremely rewarding and apparently people were impressed as other coworkers came up to me and said “I heard you did the whole audit!, great job!”

I was just wondering if anyone else had a moment like mine…..Of course the next day I got completely stumped working on debt…..but at least I know a true accountant will be figuring it out, not some impostor!!

Audit(11/5/13) - 89
Reg(5/16/14) - 86
FAR(7/18/14) - 82
BEC(11/14) - 85

[Anonymous]

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[taxgeek83]

Still waiting on that feeling! 😉

Right after I got my license (and it was announced to the entire department, yay….), someone called me with an accounting question. I work in tax. Sooooo…I immediately drew a blank. It was pretty embarrassing. I don't mind being wrong or not knowing something, but with those three letters, it feels like there's a lot more pressure to basically be awesome at everything.

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