[lkh9596]

I am a student majoring in accounting at Rutgers (NJ state school)

I didn’t finish my undergrad program yet.

But I feel like I love tax more than audit.

So I am hoping to work at big 4 Tax services.

But my question is my school has Masters in Taxation and Masters in Financial Accounting.

And I like to know if you need Masters in Tax in order to work at Tax service.

or it doesn’t matter whether you have Taxation or Financial accounting to get an internship offer or full time job at Tax.

Anyone working at Big 4 Taxes can give me some advice or help?

I really appreciate your help.

[ORcpaHOPEFUL]

I didn't work for a Big 4… but I did two years at a really large regional firm on the West Coast (I won't say where.) In school I was allllll about tax and hated my audit class. I worked in tax for 10 months and was really unhappy. My firm offered the option to transfer into audit from tax and then decide which one you prefer after 6ish months. I always thought I was all tax and would HATE audit- but boy was I wrong, I was a true auditor! Honestly, you never know which one you like more until you literally work in it so I would say it's safer to go with the general financial accounting masters so you have an option.

However, from what I understood during recruiting in college- the Big 4 don't offer an option to go between tax and audit like my firm so you kind of need to decide before hand. If possible, try to get a busy season internship so you can see what it's REALLY like. Good luck! Oh and really do listen when they say to pass the exam ASAP! The longer you work the harder it gets (longer hours, more responsibility, etc etc.) 🙂

FAR: PASSED!! 64, 68, 79 on 2/27/13!
AUD: PASSED!! 73, 93 on 4/5/13!!!
BEC: PASSED!! 75 (phew) on 5/24/13!
REG: PASSED!!! 77 on 8/7/13 I AM DONE!!!!!

Experience: got it!
Ethics Exam: PASSED on first try (what a waste of money)

[jman6]

So going back to your question…

It does not matter what your Master degree is in. In fact it does not matter if you even have a Master degree as long as you are eligible to be certified in your state (meet all educational requirements).

BEC (11/17/12): 88
AUD (1/18/13): 76
REG (2/27/13): 88
FAR (4/15/13): 90

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