lol what transferable skills u talking about? vouching? analytical review? issue review points? manage your senior and junior? wait now managers do field work cos no manpower.

you leave audit without any commercial knowledge, dont know accounting system, only know how to pick samples and check FS, wait nowadays audit quality so cui i think they got problem reviewing FS, yet alone do. there is a reason no locals want to do, its because no life. Next thing u know u are in your mid 30s with nothing but a decent pay check and you are but a shell. u forgot what hobbies are like. U think commercial want to hire u become FM? so expensive but no skills. U cant leave audit because u are too expensive and u continue this life until you are in your mid 40s and realize u missed out on your kids birthday, parents funeral.

u lost your life to grow your salary to 8-9k? worth it? and u stagnate unless u become partner. u cant leave. your skills are too generic and nothing specialized. u spend your day trying to book staff when no one joins and all your competent seniors quit, assuming there are any.

u look around you and realize there are no singaporeans, only malaysians who speak in broken chinese and you have to OT as much as them because they are motivated with 3:1 while your exchange rate is 1:1 at best. you end up marrying a malaysian girl and develop their weird chinese speaking accent.
big pay doesnt pay your enough for the amount of hours u work. just count. aren't all accountants/ auditors good with numbers? must I get a mcdonald employee to do it for u

What branding does big 4 provide? just leave as senior if branding is so important. whether u leave as manager or senior, u have your branding. and once u are a senior, your knowledge level is as good as your managers if u know what i mean.

your skills deteriorate once u are manager because u lost touch of how to use excel as you spend your days reviewing working paper only. when you leave for commercial, u realize u cannot cope because you havent been using excel for so long, your accountants and senior accountants look down and dont respect u for being just a people manager, but never help with work

big 4 doesnt pay your enough for the amount of hours u work. just count. aren't all accountants/ auditors good with numbers? must I get a mcdonald employee to do it for u

Theres a reason why seniors do senior level work and juniors do junior level work
The speed of comprehension, technical competency, speed of testing and documentation all plays apart. This will determine how late u sleep at night.

There is no difference between peak and off peak now. Its whole year peak unless u are bad. When u lack manpower, thats whole year peak for u.

Client have 1 year of cooking of the books to do their financials and auditor have less than a month to audit them

My dear student, have u tried not sleeping for days on end? have u tried doing nothing for an entire week but work and sleep? your weekends are burnt doing catch up, you take MC to catch up on back log. Try doing that for months? Are u ready to throw your life away for your branding? Branding to what? commercial? industry is invaded by malaysians by now, low balled to the sky.