Key to Promotion

Know Your Stuff
We expect you to know the basics of accounting and tax, or your particular consulting specialty. Beyond that, we will teach you the BKD audit and tax approaches along with our quality controls, policies and procedures. At least twice a year, we'll discuss your career path, past performance, future goals and special interests.

Use Your Coach
The coach assigned to you is your objective advocate. Talk to your coach about your work-related problems or concerns. Your coach provides ongoing performance and career feedback, helps resolve problems and issues that may arise and answers a variety of work-related questions.

Specialize
The days of the generalist are gone. Now, you need to be a tax or audit advisor—a consultant with a service or industry niche. Your early assignments will expose you to a mix of engagements and introduce you to your office's niches, or you may be steered into an emerging niche where you will have opportunities to develop a new practice.

Master Marketing
Public accounting is as much about communication as about numbers. Beyond the mastery of technical skills and knowledge, you will need to learn how to identify and satisfy client needs.

We realize marketing approaches vary with the individual and contributions to marketing can be made in different ways. As you progress in the firm, you will take a more active role in marketing BKD solutions, including attending trade shows, writing articles, representing BKD in organizations, giving speeches and calling on prospects.

Become a Client Solution
Our mission is to be a solution for our clients. This kind of commitment from partners and staff translates to satisfied clients who buy our services, pay our bills and refer us to others. Our clients’ size is conducive to early interaction with management. You will quickly begin to proactively look for solutions to help clients reduce risk while operating more efficiently and save money.

Network
BKD is a large firm. Whether you join a large or small BKD office, you’re part of a network of approximately 2,000 professionals with common values and mission. We share training, clients, marketing and other resources and build teams among our practice units to cross-sell services. You and your clients will benefit as you become aware of the unique resources found in each BKD office.

Become a Team Player
A team of people can deliver so much more than individuals working alone. That’s why a service team representing a mix of skills and expertise supports every BKD client. The result is an enhanced set of resources channeled by our partners to deliver results. As you encounter client issues and problems, use your service team to help find solutions.