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10.5.2019

Week 13 – Catching up the the EAI team!

Joey Halligan| EAI Team | US Secondee Blog | Financial Services | EisnerAmper Ireland

Joey Halligan

Last week we said goodbye to our Mumbai colleagues who have finished their secondment period. As the Mumbai staff have left and the EisnerAmper busy season is over, a number of new staff members have been assigned to the audit who we met last Friday. We are looking forward to working with the new team.

On Friday night, we met up with Cormac and Zoe from the Dublin office, who were in New York to meet with EisnerAmper LLP tax colleagues and clients. We had a great evening catching up and managed to grab a group photo at 230th and 5th with the Empire State building in the background.

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2.5.2019

Week 12 – Sunday Brunch

Shaun Boyle | Sunday Brunch | US Secondee Blog | Financial Services | EisnerAmper Ireland

Shaun Boyle

Myself and Joseph are back in the New York Offices tidying up workpapers while we wait for the remaining information to be provided by the client. We have arranged to be back at the client headquarters in Westwood Massachusetts starting the week of 13 May. We are hoping that we will be able to complete the remaining 2017 testing within two weeks. We will shortly be starting the 2018 audit once the 2017 audit is close to being finalised.

Last weekend a colleague of ours from EAI visited us. We enjoyed another sunny Saturday in Central Park playing football. We made our way out to Queens on Sunday to enjoy brunch at the legendary Sugar Freak. In the evening we treated ourselves to Labretto’s stone baked pizzas before settling in for the night.

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2.5.2019

Week 12 – EAI Visitors

Aidan Lundy | EAI Visitors | US Secondee Blog | Financial Services | EisnerAmper Ireland

Aidan Lundy

As Audit busy season comes to a close this week here in the US, we met with the additional staff who will be assigned to our teams. We will be training up these new team members on the engagement and familiarizing them with the audit file itself.

We had some visitors from EisnerAmper Ireland over the weekend. We had a great time showing them around the city which included a trip to the One World Trade Centre, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. We are also looking forward to meeting with Cormac Doyle, Gavin Lee and Zoe Maloney who will be in New York this week for meetings.

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24.4.2019

Week 11 – Lets go Yankees!

Joey Halligan | Lets Go Yankees | US Secondee Blog | Financial Services | EisnerAmper Ireland

Joey Halligan

Shaun and I have been spending more time in the New York and New Jersey offices over the last couple of weeks as we are awaiting information from the client before we return to their offices to complete the remainder of our fieldwork. This has given us a chance to spend more time with the managers on the job to fine tune our audit workpapers and ensure the audit is progressing as smoothly as possible.

On Saturday, we went to the Yankees Stadium to see the New York Yankees play the Kansas City Royals after being kindly provided with tickets by Charly Weinstein, CEO of EisnerAmper LLP. We got to see plenty of home runs as the Yankees won 9-2 and we even managed to get ourselves on the Jumbotron.

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24.4.2019

Week 11 – Easter Weekend

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Ruairi Feehan

Our team is working diligently and we are making our way through the audit step by step.

Easter weekend has been one of the most enjoyable I’ve experienced since my arrival in NYC 11 weeks ago.  One of our former colleague’s from EisnerAmper Ireland, Aoife O’ Leary, her husband, and a friend of ours, visited NYC for the weekend.  We enjoyed a brunch on Easter Sunday which gave us the opportunity to catch up.  The weather was beautiful over the weekend and along with my colleagues Aidan, Joey, and a friend, we made it onto the big screen at Yankee Stadium (which you can see in Joey’s blog), all in all, it was the perfect weekend!

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18.4.2019

Week 10 – Masters Sunday

Aidan Lundy | Masters Sunday | US Secondee Blog | Financial Services | EisnerAmper Ireland

Aidan Lundy

Ruairi and I are still working full time in the client’s offices and will be for the foreseeable future. I’m progressing through my sections and have been assigned some additional areas of the audit. As audit busy season winds-down here in the US, we are hoping some additional staff will be assigned to our teams to help with the large amount of fieldwork that is to be completed.

Having worked on Saturday morning, Ruairi, Joey, Shaun and myself went to the batting cages at Chelsea Piers. We had a great day out and then on Sunday enjoyed watching the greatest golfer of all time win the Masters.

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18.4.2019

Week 10 – A Trip to Chelsea Pier

Shaun Boyle | A Trip to Chelsea Pier | US Secondee Blog | Financial Services | EisnerAmper Ireland

Shaun Boyle

Myself and Joseph were back in New York this week, splitting our time between the New York office and the New Jersey office. We will be heading back to the client site in Westwood Massachusetts next week to continue our work.

Now that the baseball season is getting into full swing, Joey, Aidan, Ruairi and myself went to Chelsea Pier to practice our batting. We then met a colleague from the New York office and had a few drinks for her birthday.

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17.4.2019

Week 9 – A Trip to Boston

Ruairi Feehan | A Trip to Boston | US Secondee Blog | Financial Services | EisnerAmper Ireland

Ruairi Feehan

Our client engagement has been really busy over the last couple of weeks. In this time period, we have moved from the planning stage of the engagement to fieldwork and I have been assigned members of staff to assist me. I’m delegating work to the more junior members of the team and providing assistance to them when required. I’m working from the client’s site which means there is interaction with the client on a daily basis.

Over the weekend, the secondment team paid a visit to Boston for some much needed R&R. The weather was beautiful over the weekend which added to the trip. We did a bus tour of the city which included a very knowledgeable tour guide who explained the history of the city, including the famous Boston Tea Party protest in 1773. Boston is a beautiful city and I definitely plan to return again!

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17.4.2019

Week 9 – A Weekend in Boston!

Joey Halligan | A Weekend in Boston | US Secondee Blog | Financial Services | EisnerAmper Ireland

Joey Halligan

Shaun and I are back in New York for the week which gives us a chance to catch up with some of our New York colleagues. As EisnerAmper’s busy season is now winding down, an additional manager has been allocated to our engagement team and we are looking forward to meeting them at the end of the week.

Last weekend we decided to take a trip to Boston where we stayed in ‘Southie’ a well known Irish neighbourhood in South Boston. On Saturday night we visited Landsdowne Street which is where Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, is located. We went to the Bleacher Bar which is actually underneath the bleacher seats in the stadium and you can see the full outfield through the windows.

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2.4.2019

Week 8 – A Trip to Ellis Island

Shaun Boyle | A Trip to Ellis Island | US Secondee Blog | Financial Services | EisnerAmper Ireland

Shaun Boyle

Joseph Halligan, a fellow Secondee, and I are still working in Massachusetts at the client’s headquarters. We are in the testing phase of the audit. We will probably be here until the end of April and then back in the New York office to complete the audits.

I had some family visiting from both Ireland and Philadelphia during the weekend so I was able to fit in some tourist attractions with them. The sun was shining on Saturday so we made a trip out to Ellis Island. They have a database of everyone who arrived between 1915 and 1960. We were able to find records of both my grandparents who emigrated to America from Ireland in the 1950s.

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2.4.2019

Week 8 – Yankees in the Bronx!

Yankees in the Bronx | US Secondee Blog | Financial Services | EisnerAmper Ireland

Aidan Lundy

Myself and Ruairi are now working full time in the client’s offices. This week I worked on the Reconciliation and Sampling documents for my sections of the audit. After being signed-off by the Senior Manager on the engagement, I began making my selections for testing which were later issued to the client.

Myself, Ruairi and Joey (my fellow Secondees) journeyed into the Bronx on Saturday where we went to a Yankees game. Unfortunately, the Yankees lost but we still had a great day out.

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28.3.2019

Week 7 – Central Park Views

Joey Halligan | Secondee Blog | audit testing | EisnerAmper Ireland

Joey Halligan

We are now into our fourth week at the client’s site in Massachusetts and our audit testing is beginning to pick up pace. Shaun and I are supervising a team of 3 other staff members. We are hoping to have most of our audit testing completed in the next 2 weeks to allow us to wrap up this portion of the audit back in New York.

On Saturday, we took advantage of our first weekend of warm weather in New York and made a trip to Central Park to unwind and throw around an American football. It’s safe to say our technique could improve but it was a great day with a nice view of the city.

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