Thinking about pivoting from DCM to modeling and valuation at a big 4 accounting firm in their advisory arm.
what are the pros and cons from moving away from DCM to modeling/valuation?
Are the hours better? Is the work life balance any better?
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Don’t do that. You’ll be working on audit work, it’s super boring
Specify on the big 4 group? There’s a big difference between the valuations team and the transaction advisory team.
Group would be modeling and valuation group.
Don’t believe it would be transactional team
If it’s not a transactional team you will being doing a lot of modeling that is based around testing companies intangibles for impairment (basically audit)
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