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.
Procrastination
Jane Elliott - Principal
Picture this: It’s Sunday night and you have a big project due tomorrow morning. As you watch the hands on the clock move steadily forward, you keep asking yourself, “Why, oh why, didn’t I start this darn thing a week ago!?!?” Then you realize you just ruined your last piece of poster board, and it’s too late to go out and get another one because everything’s closed.
Just thinking about that scene kind of makes your stomach knot up, doesn’t it?
Well, the same thing happens in the world of public accounting - our “projects” (our audits) have due dates too, and time can slip away from you before you know it. Procrastination is something we can all fall victim too, and staying organized is one way to fight that.
There’s an old adage out there that says that if you eat a live frog first thing in the morning, that’s probably the worst thing that you’ll have to do all day. Brian Tracy, who wrote Eat That Frog, sums it up by saying “If you have to eat a live frog, it doesn’t pay to sit and look at it for very long.”
So, get cracking! And carpe frog!
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