Originally Posted by Unregistered

Why are you kids so obsessed with the qualifications anyway? Your membership fee costs more than the extra pay you get from having one and I'll be honest, that almost never happens. Just focus on getting your technicals down and build domain knowledge in useful industries. I've been reviewing case study assignments from candidates who are audit associates and they're genuinely terrible quality-wise in the sense that there's no logic, there's inconsistencies and random boxes everywhere.

Let's be honest, with such complete lack of attention to detail, you won't be making partner in PA anyway so you'll do fine without any certs.