Accounting and Finance Foundations

Unit 1

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Accounting Careers

Chapter 2

Student Assignment

The Big Four2.3.9

You will work with other classmates in teams to engage in perhaps the most critical fact-finding mission of

your life, landing a job with one of the Big Four accounting firms. You need meaningful information about

potential employers. You need to make an important decision regarding your life and career! You need

to explore one of the Big Four accounting firms and decide as a team if you would want to work for that

company. The right decision could make you and others in your team very wealthy and happy. The wrong

decision could ruin your career. Your team will be assigned one of the Big Four accounting firms which are:

Deloitte & Touche, Ernst and Young, KPMG, and Price Waterhouse Coopers.

After completing your research, each team will convince the class that this is or is not the company to work

for, and this convincing will be done through a PowerPoint presentation.

Each team member will need to begin the process by researching different aspects of the company:

Evaluating the pros and cons about working for the company.

Analyzing and ranking the importance of the criteria used in the evaluation.

Designing and drawing a logo for the company.

Convincing the class that this is or is not the company for which to work.

Each team will research the following criteria (if applicable):

n    Salary

n    Company Culture

n    Career Advancement/Opportunities

n    Turnover

n    Satisfaction of the Employees

n    Hours

n    Locations

n    Diversity

n    Prestige

n    Company Overview

Each team member will be responsible for researching two of the above criteria.

Once the information has been collected, team members will need to organize the data in a table format in

MSWord. Team members can then start on the design of the logo for the company, and finally team mem-

bers can work on the PowerPoint presentation.

Before the team presents its findings to the class, the team will need to discuss and organize the presenta-

tion. All team members will need to participate.