I have done both accounting and auditing, and I did accounting first and then auditing. I think I have a say in this issue. I'm sure many people think that auditing is a higher level than accounting, so it's no problem to suddenly go back to accounting after auditing or long-term auditing. But I can tell you that these people have never really experienced it, and I will tell you this conclusion from the theoretical level, but in fact, auditing and accounting are completely different, and if you do auditing for a long time and then transfer to accounting, it is really impossible to adapt to the accounting work, at least in the short term.

The simplest truth is that in the past, you needed an accounting qualification certificate to do accounting, but there was no requirement for an accounting qualification certificate in his conditions to be an audit certified public accountant. In other words, even if you haven't been an accountant and don't know any accounting knowledge, you can still take the CPA exam directly. An intern colleague came to my previous firm. He just didn't know anything about accounting, but he passed the CPA exam directly.

It can be said that most people think that accounting work is a bookkeeping work, but in fact accounting involves not only accounting, but also a series of work such as taxation, financial management and budgeting. And if you want to be a qualified financial person, you must have a complete understanding of the company and even the whole industry.

But the audit, although contact with many industries, but for all walks of life, only a superficial understanding, but not in-depth understanding. In addition, most of the audit is the accounting treatment and the accuracy of financial reports. For tax planning, financial management, etc., in fact, I don't know, or I can say that I don't have a deep understanding, but I just know the fur. When auditing, it is true that some formulas of financial management need to be involved in the manuscript, and sometimes it needs to be compared and analyzed with the financial budget, but it will not touch the actual financial management process and budget preparation process, or even tax planning, which will not be involved.

Auditing can be said to focus on theory, while accounting focuses on practice. It is often the case that auditors ask accountants of enterprises to do what they want, but accountants often feel unable to do so, at least in practical operation.

In real life, there are also many auditors who jump ship to enterprises to do financial work, but they may not be able to stand a series of rules and regulations of corporate finance in a few days, and then return to the firm to do auditing. Such examples can be said to be everywhere.

Therefore, in my opinion, if you want to develop in an enterprise, don't consider going to a firm for auditing, just stick to doing it in the enterprise, learn the financial management in the enterprise and the operation of the industry in which the company is located, and so on. Don't listen to others, first go to the office for a few years, and then return to the enterprise. This is a pure waste of time.

The reason why enterprises like to recruit firms to be the head of the finance department is not to let them be completely responsible for financial affairs, but to let them come and deal with external third parties, because their experience in the firm will definitely have contact with banks, securities and other third-party institutions. If the enterprise involves financing or IPO, then the people from the firm can really play a role, but the real handling of enterprise financial affairs must rely on the following financial managers or financial directors who are proficient in financial business.