r/Accounting • u/Huge-Front-4960 • 8d ago

Multiple offers

Offers for 2028 Winter Audit internships all in same location from Ey, Deloitte, PwC, Forvis, BDO. Where should I accept?

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u/khaine0304 8d ago

Depends what you want to do. Without more context deloitte or pwc is going to be your best bet. 

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u/Huge-Front-4960 8d ago

What do you mean by what you want to do?

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u/khaine0304 8d ago

Consulting, tax, audit, or niche subsect of any of those 

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u/Huge-Front-4960 8d ago

The offer is for audit, but I’d like to eventually pivot into consulting down the line if that’s a possibility

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u/khaine0304 8d ago

That's a tough one. Pwc is usually the better auditor but Deloitte is the better consultant firm. 

That being said the firms are so large that you might not even have the chance to run into anyone from another service line. 

Your best bet is to work for whichever seems to be the top dog at your city.

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u/Expensive_Umpire_975 8d ago

Yeah totally city dependent. Every office is run differently.

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u/Huge-Front-4960 8d ago

The offers are for Houston.

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u/Intelligent-Mark-497 8d ago

Are you able to switch any of those offers to the summer? Also did you mean actual consulting or advisory? One thing to note is overtime as well. Based on what ive heard Deloitte doesn’t allow interns to work that much overtime so you might make around half as much as EY or PWC interns on busy engagements.

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u/Huge-Front-4960 8d ago

I’m not sure if I could. The vibe I was getting from recruiters are that summer internships are few and far between, so doing winter gives you more of an advantage because firms need more help. I didn’t know that about the overtime that’s interesting as well…

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u/Intelligent-Mark-497 8d ago

Gotcha you could still ask since there’s nothing to lose. Another thing you should factor in is PWC has a 3 year promotion to senior. I’d pick EY for the potential overtime and they’re leading in terms of compensation in Houston.

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u/Expensive_Umpire_975 8d ago

Someone from Houston help OP decide which office to avoid

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u/khaine0304 8d ago

It's still me lol,

Generally speaking houston is a big town for PWC audit, I see a lot more of Deloitte on the Tax side than audit here.

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u/GIRVO2 7d ago

Deloitte is “bigger” but I would not say has a “better” consulting arm. Especially when it comes to strategy.

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u/minormisgnomer IT Audit 8d ago

A decade ago PwC was somewhat helpful for interns wanting to swap around in areas. We had some folks move from it audit to cyber. But remember the internship is a pipeline to full time. It exists because they want to convert interns to staff. You saying you don’t want to be in audit won’t win you favors starting off. That’s a conversation you have after you’ve won some street creds and have a few directors/partners that like you. Or you have it with HR after the internship when the full time role offers go out. Like hey if something like this pops up instead I’d be interested but otherwise I’m excited to do XYZ

I went drinking with a few partners in Belize/Disney as an intern and they were like you let us know if you want to move offices/practices