Employment at MSL - Audit Staff I MSL CPAs Employee Review

Friendly People Potential for growth Flexible Hours

Not the most up to date technology

All of the staff and most of the managers are very down to earth people who do care about staff success and will help you navigate the mind field that is public accounting.

MSL is a great opportunity to get into public accounting if you have no other options. The firm mostly has government or healthcare clients (which they won't tell you in the interview) so if that isn't something you are interested in don't even bother. The PTO (3 weeks) is laughable when you compare it to other accounting firms or to all the necessary weekend work not limited to the traditional busy season. Be prepared to be compensated 10-20% less than your peers at other firms. Pretty sure MSL is also the only accounting firm in 2022 to not cover the costs of the CPA exam or study materials. Everyone who has left the firm for other public accounting opportunities does not regret their decision one bit. If you don't have any other options, it can be used as a leaping board to other firms but I would not plan on sticking around for long or you will be putting your career behind your peers. There are also no fringe benefits because they were cut out of the budget due to Covid even though they had "record profits" in 2020 and 2021. Staff had to pull teeth to get a firm sponsored happy hour that had a strict spending limit.