Help!should i change my firm(articleship)?

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Rhea

Student CA Final

633 Points Posted on 15 September 2012

Hi :) Soo let me start with my stupid story.I have been working as an article with this firm for over 2 weeks but I haven't officially registered with the institute yet.In these two weeks,I have mainly done- 1. Accounting work on tally and prepared financial statements on Excel. 2. Some Income Tax and TDS return related work. 3. Some corporate law related work,mainly ROC returns and prepared some deeds. You all know that september is known as the month of audits,but I haven't been sent to any audits yet.I did a little auditing work for a very small private limited company and a little vouching,that's about it.The firm is a CA Firm + Outsourcing Company and I feel like there major focus is on the work related to latter.They have outsourced employees so I guess they do the auditing work or something.I have tried to enquire about their spectrum of services but obviously they said they provide all kind of services including auditing.They always answer things ambiguously.I have asked my friends working with other firms how their articleship experience is,and they say they're not that satisfied cause they're only made to do audit work and don't get exposure in other fields.And here I am,who's barely getting any audit work.I'm feeling confused.What do you think I should do?

Replies (5)

Back in the Game

1273 Points Posted on 15 September 2012

The Grass always looks green from the other side.u ve to sort it out urself.

CA Ashish Pathak

Employed at Cipla Ltd.

2779 Points Posted on 15 September 2012

Rhea, your apprehensions as a newly joined article assistant are obvious. But see its just the start and i must say that you have already handled quite lot of different variety of works in just two weeks which is really appreciable. Yes, audit is also an important thing to learn but you can't so expect yourself to be given an audit assignment in the start. Have patience... may be you will get such assignments too after bit of experience. Better ask other senior articles about the kind of work they are engaged in and are they satisfied with the kind of exposure they are getting and then decide. Good Luck.