I enjoy the worklife balance comparing to my financial audit counterparts . Our expectation is 50 hours during busy season and don ' t have to work on the weekend . But obviously with deadlines and other circumstances , most people will work more than that . The compensation and raises are also a little better than financial audit and tax at least at my firm since it ' s a highly specialized field . Based on your experiences , you also get to work with a lot of other competencies within the firm . From financial systemISO implementation , design business process controls , to SOX ITGC testing , there ' s a lot of directions you can go after a couple years in IT audit . Also , IT audit touches so many areas from accounting , finance to IT and risk management . When I ' m testing application controls , I get to leverage my accounting experience think about 3 way match , depreciation , AR aging type controls . When I ' m working with ERP systems , I get to understand the configurations , GUI , and governancebest practice around these systems . Lastly , there ' s a good market demand for IT audit professionals both in industry and public accounting firms . What I don ' t enjoy ? Well sometime it ' s hard to get client buyin . They don ' t really understand what you do and how you are helping them . Also , we are not true IT experts nor financial audit experts unless you really specialize in one system and learn the ins and outs about that system . I want to specialize in a system , SAP or Oracle , and really focus on the business and IT process behind them . From different accounting processes to various IT processes , I want to become an expert in that . Some people say exit opportunity is limited , but I mean , if you like what you do i . e . , testing businessIT processes and controls , doing risk assessments , design governanceprocesses , then wouldn ' t you want to do the same in the industry as well ? Going into industry is suppose to be a continuation of your career , not a 360 degree flip of what you already built on .