More Client Experience

Tony Osude, who runs learning development for the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, believes working in mid-sized firm will give you more experience dealing with clients than you'll get a Big Four firms.

If you went to one of the mid-tier firms, one of the beauties about being there is you might not be paid as much necessarily, but you have much more hands on experience. You can expect to actually meet your clients in the flesh and have much more dealings with your clients and also, importantly, if you want to stay in practice and recognition is important to you, there's a greater chance of being recognized and career tracked.

Mid-tier better for hands-on experience says ACCA [Accountancy Age]