Q: Big4 - Yearly salary increment

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Red flags on a manager which made my senior life hard

1) they have no experience or power in booking manpower - come on isn't that your job? do it well if not your entire audit team suffers for your lack of competence

2) they only sit in office or wfh to review work, die die refuse to go client place

3) too focused on their personal KPI and time cost, so they book less staff

4) tell engagement x they busy focusing on engagement y, and tell engagement y they focusing on engagement x. end up manager is just slacking

Regarding #1 - they can submit a form to request for staff. They can ask and ask, over and over, but it doesn’t guarantee you will get. There’s nothing they can do because they are not in charge of manpower allocation or recruitment. What do you want me to do? Spend my own money to hire a part timer to help you ah?

Managers are just human shields with no real power.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Red flags on a manager which made my senior life hard

1) they have no experience or power in booking manpower - come on isn't that your job? do it well if not your entire audit team suffers for your lack of competence

2) they only sit in office or wfh to review work, die die refuse to go client place

3) too focused on their personal KPI and time cost, so they book less staff

4) tell engagement x they busy focusing on engagement y, and tell engagement y they focusing on engagement x. end up manager is just slacking

For #2, I cannot speak for every manager. Some of us do go to clients place. I rotate among my portfolio.

Reasons for not wanting to go may include
a) not eligible to claim taxi after promoting to manager. Hence avoid unnecessary trips.
b) unable to teleport from east to west when you have multiple commitments
c) need to be in office to attend other meetings.
d) deliberately playing a good cop bad cop manager so your team will tell client it’s the manager insist on something so client empathises and supports them more.
e) expectation of juniors for managers to treat lunch or buy drinks when they come clients place.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Red flags on a manager which made my senior life hard

1) they have no experience or power in booking manpower - come on isn't that your job? do it well if not your entire audit team suffers for your lack of competence

2) they only sit in office or wfh to review work, die die refuse to go client place

3) too focused on their personal KPI and time cost, so they book less staff

4) tell engagement x they busy focusing on engagement y, and tell engagement y they focusing on engagement x. end up manager is just slacking

#3 - depends on the big boss. Time cost is not a big deal for my department. My bosses are fine maintaining margins. Some new managers scared to approach big boss to ask to lower margins. It’s not true that margin is a manager KPI but some M1s have that misconception. Other bosses prioritise quality and service over budget. Just need to be reasonable.

Also some managers spoil market by hogging staff even when there’s not much to do just in case something comes in and they cannot get more people last minute.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

For #2, I cannot speak for every manager. Some of us do go to clients place. I rotate among my portfolio.

Reasons for not wanting to go may include
a) not eligible to claim taxi after promoting to manager. Hence avoid unnecessary trips.
b) unable to teleport from east to west when you have multiple commitments
c) need to be in office to attend other meetings.
d) deliberately playing a good cop bad cop manager so your team will tell client it’s the manager insist on something so client empathises and supports them more.
e) expectation of juniors for managers to treat lunch or buy drinks when they come clients place.

hi manager, u are just a piece of sh1t

Originally Posted by Unregistered

#3 - depends on the big boss. Time cost is not a big deal for my department. My bosses are fine maintaining margins. Some new managers scared to approach big boss to ask to lower margins. It’s not true that margin is a manager KPI but some M1s have that misconception. Other bosses prioritise quality and service over budget. Just need to be reasonable.

Also some managers spoil market by hogging staff even when there’s not much to do just in case something comes in and they cannot get more people last minute.

shut up lah

talk so much

Originally Posted by Unregistered

First time hearing this. Never seen anyone who didn’t take study leave before. If you fail, it’s your money you’re risking, especially for EY no pass, no money. You help out on the engagement, the engagement meets the deadline and closes. Will your bonus be higher because of the extra hard work you put in during your leave? No. And if you fail, your manager will xian qi you and say why you so cui? the engagement belongs to the firm. only the qualification belongs to you. You need to weigh the pros and cons. And for the manager who’s not even willing to cover for those few days, he or she can f k off.

How many days do people normally take excluding weekends?

Most audit seniors doesn't want to do construction audit is because the client could not furnish Work-In-Progress Schedule?

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Construction audit is not difficult provided that client able to do WIP Schedule well.

If the client screw up, then the WIP is unauditable.