Brad is a first-year associate with accounting giant PriceWaterhouse Coopers. As an finance major at Penn State, Brad wasn’t originally drawn to the idea of an accounting firm until he was introduced to the advisory side of the business at a career fair. Find out how Brad’s team-oriented classes prepared him for his career!
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>> My name is Brad Matthews. I'm a first year associate at Price Waterhouse Cooper. I just graduated from Penn State in May, and I studied finance there in the College of Business. So I initially got staffed on a project within a leadership group within a company and we're basically tasked with simplifying an array of their responsibilities, and so day to day, I'm consistently on the phone with my manager and other members of the team within PWC, and so it's a lot of Excel work, we're constantly trying to review our deliverables that ultimately go to the client, and make sure that they're absolutely perfect. And just keeping them up to date. We're on the phone with our clients, we have conference calls, usually about every week, with a few people that are part of the client. The hours are not that bad. It's-- I'm usually in at about 8:15, out by 5:30 or so, but I mean, consulting, you're there until basically the work gets done. But-- and that can change, from project to project. Sometimes you're going to be in pressure situations where you need to get the work done that exact day, and sometimes those days can drag on a little bit. Other than that, pretty normal hours.
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