Off the Ledger
Your days as a college student are almost numbered. The working world is calling. As you get ready to embark on your career, you have to be thinking, “What am I going to do when I graduate?” “Is a job in public accounting right for me?”
Where do you want to go?
You have so many options. Big firm or small? How do you decide? Where can you go to get the real, honest look at a career in public accounting? What is it REALLY like to be an intern? What will my life be like as a staff accountant?
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At Porter Keadle Moore, LLP (PKM) we’re here to help. We’ve created this blog site just for you! To help you find answers to these and other questions about working in a public accounting firm. Real interns and brand new staff accountants chronicle their experiences with our firm. Read what they have to say. Ask questions, share your opinions and we’ll respond.
An Ad man and An Accountant Walk into a Bar
Phil Moore - Managing Partner
Today, I read a blog posting called “Dysfunctionality and the Winning Ad Agency Team” written by Bart Cleveland, partner and creative director at McKee Wallwork Cleveland, a small advertising agency in New Mexico. What could Bart and I possibly have in common? After all, Bart and his coworkers live in a right-brained world of words and visuals; I head an accounting firm that lives and breathes number and facts. Despite our stereotypical differences, if you look beyond the obvious, just a little bit deeper, many aspects of our firms seem quite similar.
Reading Bart’s blog about the “buzz” in his office gave me a feeling of warmth, similar to the feeling I often get in my own office, as PKM comes to life each morning. Since I’m an early riser, my hours of quiet transform, later in the morning, into a hubbub of activities as people get reacquainted and ready to begin their days. This activity, this coming to life, is palpable and so invigorating. Even after all these years, I’m amazed and proud of the PKM relationships, formed over hallway conversations and cups of coffee, through which our employees transition from coworkers into friends.
Bart also talks about winning teams, which I too feel we have at PKM. With dozens of unique personalities and skill sets blending into a single functional unit we are ready to tackle whatever the world has in store for us. Both firms have “a clear single-minded goal” to provide an exceptional service to clients through an atmosphere filled with the “sound of laughter of a winning team.”
Like Bart, PKM employees are “selected for more than their technical skill.” “Personality is as important as technical acumen.” In an earlier blog, posted on September 11, 2006, I talk about this as a key component of the PKM culture. I couldn’t have written it better myself! To me, Bart’s blog also describes PKM in a nutshell.
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