Originally Posted by Unregistered

Your audit managers and partners are right, once you go commercial you will be ‘stuck’ and ‘pigeonholed’ in a back office and cost centre roles with very limited progression and measly 3% increment every year. One could be stuck as senior accountant for 5 to 10 or even donkey years who knows. But in audit, you are guaranteed career progression to at least SM level and if you defy all odds and stay on to persevere you will become equity partner one day unless you screwed up.