"Accountants there are some of the most dysfunctional people I’ve ever known."
Hey, they survived when several of the other big firms did not due to bad financial statements and undetected major fraud.
I resemble that remark in more ways than one... and I even worked for them when they were Ernst & Ernst and Ernst & Whinney prior to the merger with Arthur Young. That was a lifetime ago.... I learned more with my first year with Ernst & Ernst than I did in four years of college.
They required a 3.5 GPA on a 4.0 scale just to have an interview. I think the “A” level courses means the required courses for the major.
While I learned more in my first year with E&E than four years of college, it would have been absolutely impossible to accomplish without the coursework.
That being said, we had some employees who graduated with close to a 4.0 who had no common sense and they didn’t last very long. Book sense helps, but more important is your ability to think on your feet.
Vernon S&L
Independent American S&L
RepublicBank Texas
The Keating Five . . .Charles Keating
Time Warner AOL
Only luck and politics kept them alive.