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TAX PRACTICE PREP at E&Y |
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This'll do it . . . . |
| Date Posted: |
12/29/2005 |
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Greeting all! I recently receive an offer to join the tax practice at 4 of the big fours. I am leaning toward E & Y. If I decided upon E & Y how do I come in an make a big impact. I just receive my MBA. Should I purchase the book taxes for dummies? I really am clueless as to what type of work first year associate do? |
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First year tax associates, especially MBAs with no tax or research experience, are usually involved in the big deals, and score most of the best research and planning work because they are technically proficient and technologically capable. My advice would be to spend the time between now and your start date in the library reading as many hornbooks, treatises, and code sections as possible. Practice your memo writing skills by seeking out released law school tax class exam questions and preparing detailed answers to those. And if you have time, you should turn that research into a legal journal article of publishable quality. If you are accepted for publication prior to your start date, you'll practically be handed a senior manager job. And once you're a senior manager, your days of actual "work" are pretty much over. It's teh true fast-track . . . pretty much an early retirement plan.
Since you are considering a job about which you know nothing, I expect that you will blindly follow my advice to the letter. If you do, everything will be just fine. Trust me . . . .
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