Is accountancy really boring?

Accountancy is extremely boring. So stay as far as possible from any Big Four recruitment schemes or you'll be sorry for the rest of your life. Just to be on the safe side, don't apply to the finance departments of any large companies either.

Why do you say this??? You were saying you wanted to work for KPMG??????

You should not have any problems at all.

Depends on what you compare it to.
Getting a job with GS or BCG is far harder.

Your sarcasm detector is a little rusty. I am saying this because I want everybody else to stay as far away from accounting as possible so that it will be easier for me to get a job there.

Sure.
However the quality of the applicants is pretty shocking.

Sure.
However the quality of the applicants is pretty shocking.

I actually quite like it. Not all of it, but does that have to be? People seem to forget that there are more firms than just the big four. Generally, the bigger the firm, the bigger the work-pressuer.

Also, the bigger the firm, the higher the salary.

Accountancy jobs, especially at the big 4, are really glamourised for people who want to join. Sometimes it can be some of the most soul destroying work you could imagine. And when they say they work you hard, you are worked very hard indeed. Boring? Mostly.

Boring it may be, but alot of people just work there for 3 years, get the ACA qualification then leave. That is why they hire sooo many graduates.

Many people just think big four = boring and are ignorant to realise that the ACA qualification is highly-regarded and can lead to many other opportunities.

Not only that, but ACA gives someone alot of job security.

Accountancy is extremely boring. So stay as far as possible from any Big Four recruitment schemes or you'll be sorry for the rest of your life. Just to be on the safe side, don't apply to the finance departments of any large companies either.

If you think it's so boring, why are you asking questions about how many people secure a graduate position from their internship?

Sarcasm only works when what you're saying isn't true.

Well either way, the less people that apply to accounting graduate schemes, the better for me.

TBH, I really doubt that the number of people discouraged from applying due to posts they read on TSR will have any great effect on the applicantlace ratio...

A valid point indeed but I must make every effort to discourage as many people as possible from applying to accountancy jobs. You have to start from somewhere.