08-09-2003, 05:31 AM
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Dear Members
All I think about late sittings during articles is that it is unnecessary. It is only justifiable on final stages of some poorly planned audits. I have served as Manager Audit of a good audit firm. I always avoided late sittings. The working hours of our firm are still from 900 A.M to 500 P.M. They never sit late for more than half an hour.Believe me fellows.........I am not talking about heaven. The firm is not a small sized firm. In fact it is a firm that has very good business and a very long list of clients (It has about 80 - 85 clients for statutory audits only). All I think that it is the overall philosophy of manager and partner that make the students to sit late. We have at least 20 students qualified from our firm (only one branch) since last three years. I think thats because of the resonable working hours that we have here.
My personal opinion in this matter is "if cant finish it in 8 hours then you can never finish it". I think that all the audit firms should do some thing about it. It is rather inhuman to force a person to sit that late and not let him / her live a normal social life.
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I'm sure everyone would like to know the name of the firm you're referring and try to get into it. )
Dear Members
All I think about late sittings during articles is that it is unnecessary. It is only justifiable on final stages of some poorly planned audits. I have served as Manager Audit of a good audit firm. I always avoided late sittings. The working hours of our firm are still from 900 A.M to 500 P.M. They never sit late for more than half an hour.Believe me fellows.........I am not talking about heaven. The firm is not a small sized firm. In fact it is a firm that has very good business and a very long list of clients (It has about 80 - 85 clients for statutory audits only). All I think that it is the overall philosophy of manager and partner that make the students to sit late. We have at least 20 students qualified from our firm (only one branch) since last three years. I think thats because of the resonable working hours that we have here.
My personal opinion in this matter is "if cant finish it in 8 hours then you can never finish it". I think that all the audit firms should do some thing about it. It is rather inhuman to force a person to sit that late and not let him / her live a normal social life.
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I'm sure everyone would like to know the name of the firm you're referring and try to get into it. )
