ELI5: What’s the difference between advisory and consulting?
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Senior Associate 1
Advisory advises the client of a solution, consulting consults the client through the process
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works at RSM
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Assignment understood perfectly, thank you!!
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Investment Banking Analyst 1
Advisory is for plebs
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PwC 1
“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.
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PwC 3
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.
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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.