What is a typical day like? How numerical is accountancy in audit?

Days can vary quite a lot, as we're looking at various companies so we're generally situated on the client site, which could be anywhere in the country really. We will do the same type of work on different jobs. We're generally allocated a few accounts of the companies, for example cash, and we'll then carry out procedures that are the same for every cash account that we'll look at, regardless of job.

Accountancy is quite numerical as we're usually working with numbers, but as we document all of our work done there is quite a lot of writing involved too. I wouldn't rely too heavily on having done maths before as it's not an advanced level that's required for the basics and when you join you go to college and you're taught the more advanced parts of accounting as you go.

Hope this helps!