
Vanessa Teitelbaum
Senior Director, Professional Practice
Center for Audit Quality
Washington, DC USA
“How you make someone FEEL is critical to success.”
Center for Audit Quality
Washington, DC USA
“How you make someone FEEL is critical to success.”
Senior Director, Professional Practice
I help the auditing profession convene and collaborate to solve problems facing the profession
I may be in my office working on a project which often involves a good amount of writing. I work on comment letter responses to proposed SEC rules or PCAOB auditing standards. I often have large task force or committee meetings and those take time to prepare for - prepare the agenda, advanced materials, etc. For a project - a comment letter or publication - I will often solicit comments from the task force and use their input to make revisions. I also attend conferences and other events.
Here's the first step for high school students
You need to have an accounting degree - research schools that offer both liberal arts type classes as well as the accounting requirements you need. There are many courses - such as psychology and history - that are important to be well-rounded, but you also need to pass the CPA exam. Doing an internship is a great way to get a taste for the career. Talk to people in the field.
"Being a CPA will pigeon hole you into accounting, which you might not want in the future."