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My Experiences and Advice
 My Experiences and Advice ... one? What are your qualifications? What are the ups and downs of the profession?Newest Review: ... in many other walks of life, including the school playground, the snob value of the qualification has petered out somewhat. But I still get a cheap thrill from announcing that I am Chartered and I am fiercely proud of my qualification - I worked damned hard for it. Once qualified, the doors to the world open to you. I spent a number of years auditing ? a task I find dull and boring, but it ... more ... did give me a good, sound business knowledge of many different types of industry. It was also my ticket to living and working abroad. Many of the top firms offer placements to their various offices around the world. In my case, this lead to other op...more |
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My Experiences and Advice: There's no Accounting for Women :) (578 words)
by Mosaic - written on 05.08.03 (Very useful, 71 readings)
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As the description for this category asks for personal experience of working as a Chartered Accountant I have no intention of going through the ways and means of becoming one. If you fancy it, there are plenty of places to find out what you need to know, either on the web or by other means. Why did I decide to become one? I used to be asked this in interviews and my stock answer was that Accountancy is the first word you come to in a careers book. After all these years, I have not come up with a better answer. Why Chartered? It was simply the best. Chartered Accountants were the crème de la crème - why settle for anything less? Of course, these days, ...
Chartered Territory (1461 words)
by charlieuk - written on 28.06.02 (Very useful, 238 readings)
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INTRODUCTION I finally have the answer to that common interview question, 'What is the hardest thing you have ever done?' 'Chartered accountancy exams, hands down' is usually my response. At school I passed GCSE and A level exams without too much fuss, and managed to come out of a three year degree course in finance fairly comfortably whilst mixing the maximum amount of pleasure into my student years. At 21 I needed a career path that would allow progression and earn a bucketful in the process. Qualify as an accountant I thought, it can't be too difficult. Oh how wrong I was. I was actually quite proud of the fact that I had ...
