BKD LLP Reviews

Pros

There are good people to work with

Cons

The pay rate is not market

Advice to Senior Management

increase pay

Pros

Good benefits, competitive pay, you learn.

Cons

Management is horrible. There is a lack of respect for employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Leave others manage the firm.

Pros

Very professional and incredible integrity

Cons

lots of travel and overtime

Pros

Large accounting firm providing diverse experience in public accounting

Cons

pay and benefits can be lacking at times

Advice to Senior Management

copious amounts of positive feedback when it is applicable.

Pros

Training
Good teamwork among staff
Generally good clients
Information sharing
Standardized processes
Annual AICPA week training
Becker materials provided for CPA

Cons

Under-appreciated by partners
Benefits lacking
Insufficient performance feedback
Greed of partners leads to small compensation adjustments
Terrible WIP/time entry system (excel based timesheets)
Work>Life balance
Lack of fun and employee satisfaction during office hours
Received less than 10 verbals "thank you for x" from management in four full years of service

Advice to Senior Management

Should you continue to show a lack of respect as well as underpay your good people, employee morale and retention will continue to dwindle. Go back to the 2007 & 2008 mentality rather than trying to operate like a big four firm. That model works for them, but they also pay their people for working long hours. It always appeared that employee satisfaction due to different management at E&Y and PWC were much better despite an increase in hours. I can now personally attest to that now that I am at E&Y.

Pros

Starting pay is great compared to other places if you are coming right out of college.

Cons

Pretty much everyone supervisor and above will screw you. You work to make the partners rich. Raises are as low as 1% and any chance BKD gets to screw you out of money they will. They will even go so low as to not pay you back for business related expenses. Heard horror stories of people getting stuck with $1200.00+ that BKD came up with stupid excuses to not pay back. Training sucked. I was never trained at all while I was there, it was just expected I would figure it out as I went along which is fine except I was a staff working alone.

Advice to Senior Management

Fire yourselves so new people can take over and run the place right. You all are worse than congress.

Pros

Plenty of training in technical areas.

Cons

Felt like management valued billing over providing quality client service.

Advice to Senior Management

Individuals without leadership skills or management ability are promoted to leadership roles.

Pros

Professionally run, well reputed and good overall brand name.

Cons

Limited scope, conservative compensation, somewhat traditional in their practices.

Advice to Senior Management

BKD Technologies needs to focus on long term growth, even if it means high costs in the short term.

Pros

You get a lot of experience in the field.You don't have to travel much. It's a job in a bad economy.

Cons

In my opinion, the firm focuses on partner profits at the expense of training its staff and providing the quality of services it is capable of providing. Also, the staff is not very diverse like a Big 4.

Pros

Great exposure. Given a lot of responsibility early in your career which really forces you to learn. Management is very approachable, at least in the south region. They pay for Becker CPA review. 4 weeks of PTO (let me know if you get to take it though). 10 holidays/yr.

Cons

i would say that you will work a lot - which can be a good thing if that's what you are looking for. Advancement is based on timing and politics from what I've seen and heard. Compensation is low compared to similar sized firms. Do your homework.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen AND respond to your employees concerns.