Not many people love to work for accounting firms, even the accountants themselves. “It is boring”, they say (and you may think?). Wrong. At least according to a survey report released by Universum, a Stockholm-based research firm. The report shows that The Big Four (accounting firms)—KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, and Deloitte are still in the top 10 most dreamed employers, voted by not less than 160,000 college students around the globe.
If you are someone who love read tech news just like me, chances are you falsely think that accounting firms are not a kind of favored workplaces—they must be other types of business, such as social media companies like Facebook or even Twitter, as they often hyped around the news buzz.
“Universum skips all the hype and goes straight to college students to ask them where they would like to work”, a report at BusinessWeek Bloomberg (BW) reads. Among those often-hyped companies, only Google in the top five followed by accounting firms on the 2nd until 5th position. Here are the top ten (among 50 published at BusinessWeek Bloomberg):
