to give an honest opinion...for your background, what do you want to do..? audit big for is not that glamourous in my opinion.. and u have to start from the very junior level.

Just want to shorten the experience accumulating phase with a big firm and getchartered quickly, then might shift to other Co. Seen auditing services too competitive, so prepared get underpaid much already but won't continue for long in this line. How about tax, forensic or anti money-laundering?

audit and tax abt the samefresh grad gets 2k, 1 year later 2.4, another yr later 2.8~2.9, then usually 3.3~3.5, then ~~ then if you still survive the days and you are good at the trade, your career will soar. My info was abt 1, 2 years old, when i was looking for a job. (pray for the better, but it could be worse) PS: now even in the big fours, promotion is not automatic but merit-based; bonus is seldom over 2 months for most juniors for the past few years. Good thing is due to long hours worked, there are fridge benefits and claimable expenses. The exposure in big fours is far better than most accountancy firms, however. To be an auditor or follow the accountancy line, big fours are good companies to start with. You may also consider risk management, special audit (including IT audit, forensic etc.)

Thank you! I am a PR and taking a conversion program from engineering to masterof professional accounting; graduating this year end and applying for CPA Aus' thereafter. Do you have any contacts of PRC nationals in big 4? Want to know more about the firms before applying...

请问 “平江摄政”， 你怎么从engineer转成professional acounting得阿？可以直接申请master degree? 需要考GMAT么？不需要account得bachelor背景么？ 除了上master,还有什么方法可以转行？

go to DB to try your luckheard from a frd that DB(Deutsche Bank) give a very high pay. for a trainee dealer able to get $5000 per month. F..... good!!!!!

--->I enrolled MPA course during my fourth year in NUS which specifically cater to non-accounting bachelors for converting to a/c background. SMU starts to offer this program from 2006.

再问是不是必须自费？只要有degree,掏钱都能上么？ thanks. 另，这样找工作好找么

we are recruitinggood for people of different background to try lah (try your luck, i mean) but in my case... you know the reasons why i am open to other options, right~

I'm working with SCB nowIf u r interested in joining our bank you can drop me an email. I can try to get the recruitment information for you from our intranet. Please provide more details on what kind of position you are looking at because I'm from implementation side, not really understand what happens in Corporate Finance section :S My email: Seah.Huei-Ching@sg.standardchartered.com

? another consumer banking comrade?what r u doing there in SCB?

--->I enrolled MPA course during my fourth year in NUS which specifically cater to non-accounting bachelors for converting to a/c background. SMU starts to offer this program from 2006.

i think B4 should be glad to employ chinese graduates hereprovided you have relevant degree ... which is quite rare they are actually sending singaporeans to china (shanghai) for projects, like 3 month to 6 month, mainly audit.

to give an honest opinion...for your background, what do you want to do..? audit big for is not that glamourous in my opinion.. and u have to start from the very junior level.