12-03-2003, 09:57 PM
Hi
In my opinion, three of the most important things to consider in a firm are
1) whether the firm provides good exposure during the articleship period of a trainee. By getting good exposure we generally mean that a trainee should look to get experience of audits and other types of assignements in as diverse types of industries and companies as possible, be they public or private, listed or unlisted, manufacturing or service industry, banks or other financial institutions etc.
2) whether the firm provides the students with ample exam preparation leaves. Some firms are really miserly with respect to allowing study leaves to their students, while some are known to be quite student-friendly. Just remember that one's main objective is to pass the CA exams, and audit exposure comes after that, ie. if you have got all the exposure in the world but havent cleared your exams, it wont count for much.
3) the period which has to be spent before the firm gives you registration. The situation used to be pretty bad, and firms used to give registrations to their trainees areound 6-8 months after joining, but nowadays what i am hearing is that things have improved considerably since those bad old days.
Cant help much about the hostel situation in lahore. I used to have a few female collegues who came from other cities like quetta and some from even lahore and islamabad who used to reside in hostels here in karachi during their articleship periods. Will ask em about the hostel situation over here if u are interested.
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Arrrgh... it sure's gonna be mighty rough sailin' today ... mates!
In my opinion, three of the most important things to consider in a firm are
1) whether the firm provides good exposure during the articleship period of a trainee. By getting good exposure we generally mean that a trainee should look to get experience of audits and other types of assignements in as diverse types of industries and companies as possible, be they public or private, listed or unlisted, manufacturing or service industry, banks or other financial institutions etc.
2) whether the firm provides the students with ample exam preparation leaves. Some firms are really miserly with respect to allowing study leaves to their students, while some are known to be quite student-friendly. Just remember that one's main objective is to pass the CA exams, and audit exposure comes after that, ie. if you have got all the exposure in the world but havent cleared your exams, it wont count for much.
3) the period which has to be spent before the firm gives you registration. The situation used to be pretty bad, and firms used to give registrations to their trainees areound 6-8 months after joining, but nowadays what i am hearing is that things have improved considerably since those bad old days.
Cant help much about the hostel situation in lahore. I used to have a few female collegues who came from other cities like quetta and some from even lahore and islamabad who used to reside in hostels here in karachi during their articleship periods. Will ask em about the hostel situation over here if u are interested.
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Arrrgh... it sure's gonna be mighty rough sailin' today ... mates!
