Worst public accounting firm - Assurance Senior Manager BDO Employee Review

1.0
May 15, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Good in training for business development skillsets.

Cons

- Partners to not know how to audit. Every test is an inefficient test of details. - Very office-centric type engagement economics. There is no visibility to other offices in the South Florida area. - No room to grow. For example, there has been no partner promotion in over 10 years, and they a good amount of seniors who should be manager, and are not. - Leadership only looks out for themselves, and has no plans on growing the practice. - They do not grow organically, only through acquisitions. The recent acquisition was handled poorly, as seen through the resignations from the acquired firm. - National office looks down on the South Florida practice, as the partners clearly do not stay up to date with the latest auditing/accounting literature. - Partners would rather over test than perform an educated audit test that can show efficiencies and effectiveness in achieving the audit objective. - Partners are critical about everyone else, except their own performance. They take no accountability.

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 5, 2026
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Pros

There actually are great people, but you play manager roulette.

Cons

BDO is notorious for promoting people who just never leave. The middle of the road, not great, not awful, people get promoted over and over again. There have been changes every 3 seconds since the ESOP. Terrible communication around change (non-existent). My manager's favorite term was "We are building the plane as we fly it". After 4 years, I was hoping to have more plane built. It was never built.

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