ELI5: What’s the difference between advisory and consulting?
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ELI5: What’s the difference between advisory and consulting?
Have a question on AI. If AI is so good at what it does… what would be the point of a Big 4? Can’t any small firm take this AI and be just as specialized efficient as a Big 4? Couldn’t it create an explosion of entrepreneurship? More competition ?
How do you spend your bonuses if its north of 10k?
Has anyone taken a mental health/stress leave and are they paid? I am suffering but can’t afford not having a paycheck.
A friend who wants to enter accounting was going to get a master's. I think they just need an associate or accounting hours to supplement bachelor's degree. Thoughts?
How late is too late to be sending emails to the team? Sometimes I'm working later into the evening and send out emails so I don't forget. I'm sending these emails to the team's work emails and I've made it clear I don't expect responses until the next day. But sometimes people still complain. Just turn off your notifications when you leave work. What's the big deal?
Advisory advises the client of a solution, consulting consults the client through the process
Assignment understood perfectly, thank you!!
Advisory is for plebs
“Consulting” often refers to management/strategy consulting which concerns the big strategic problems facing business, like which markets to enter or how to position itself long term. Advisory practices of professional services firms are usually more discrete and focused on more specific questions like implementation or technical advice. However, there’s overlap especially since PwC (Strategy&), Deloitte (Monitor), and EY (Parthenon) have acquired their own strategy consulting practices.
For PWC this is kind of a nonsensical distinction anymore. Advisory is a bucket of services that were typically not tax or audit. Consulting is a bucket of services that can include accounting or tax services but not your standard audit or return compliance procedures. Advisory is included in the bucket of services that are consulting. So ultimately it doesn’t really matter for PWC because even within advisory you have different pay scales depending on what you are advising on. Thank u
Advisory is consulting on accounting.