What would be looked on more favorably by banks?

A) 3 years audit experience with big 4

B) 2 years audit experience with big 4 followed by 1 year as management accountant in Fortune 500

Interested to get monkeys take on this. I think at least with the management accounting you could spin budget setting as some form of predictive modelling (tenuous I know).

What would people say would be the more attractive to potential employers out of the two?

Does option B say you couldnt hack three years or does the varied experience make up for it? Also is it easier tomove Big 4 to Banking or Industry to banking?

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LAbasedFinance
UFOinsider2 years of work + 1 year doing something else + MBA -> Associate > better idea than jump to analyst IMO.

Not a lot of places are going to start you as an associate after b-school if all you've done is accounting/audit and no modeling.

Good call
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