A Binghamton business school graduate chose accounting for its job security and his math skills, then landed at Protivity, a consulting firm doing internal audit work. Internal audit focuses on the processes behind financial statements, not just verifying the numbers like external auditors do.
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I went to Binghamton University in upstate New York. They have a fantastic business school, like 99% job placement rate if you graduate with an accounting degree. So, at that time, there were so many kids that, you know, I went to high school with who were older than me graduating from college. Can't get a job. Can't get a job. Can't get a job. My mom was like, make sure you get a job when you graduate from college. I went to Binghamton. I was an accounting and finance major. And it was like, hey, this is the path that I'm on just because, you know, I want to make sure that if I'm going to go to a 4-year school, I'm going to graduate with a job. I was always good at math. Like, I was good at— I took accounting classes in high school. Wanted to do something more creative though, for sure. And started my career at a company called Protivity. It was a mid-sized consulting firm really doing internal audit consulting type work. Learned so much. Internal audit, you know, a lot of people that aren't in the audit game don't understand, like, internal audit is far more process-oriented than external audit. External audit is much more aligned with accounting in terms of like tying out the financial statements, right? And actually thinking about the financial statements themselves, where internal audit is What is the process of compiling the financial statement data and all of those financial operations decisions that lead into it?
