28 March 2011
For A Great Career Consider An Accountancy Apprenticeship
You may still hold the traditional view that accounting is to juggle with numbers. This is still true, but there are more accounts than this: If you are a good Communicator, have good English skills and can solve problems there would be a great future for you in accounting. It is a professional who can take you anywhere in the world, because the accountants are needed anywhere there is a business and the best place to start is here at home - with a learning of accounting.LEARNING ACCOUNTING? THAT MEANS?There are two main ingredients of accounting learning: a company and a course. Society must be ready to support you through your studies and courses must be executed by the AAT (Association of accounting technicians). Corporations and of course as that are not difficult to find: many organizations are more that happy to support you on your way towards a qualification AAT and courts are available at colleges in the or of BPP, Kaplan and other providers of professional education.Courses are structured to give you the theoretical knowledge and practical training and experience, and throughout the course you will be assessed on an ongoing basis... and getting paid too.AND AFTER LEARNING?You have more choice of accounting roles choose once that you have qualified and pretty much any type of business you want - in any sector of activity. Here are a few from the outset: public practice work for a firm of accountants. You could be dealing with the requirements of customers, in areas such as taxation, audit, forensic accounting, business recovery insolvency and finance business.Working in the public sector / not-for-profit, you may be used by charities or organizations of departments of the Government such as the NHS or the NAO (National Audit Office), and your role could include any of the following: accounting, billing, financial reportsbudgeting, payroll, billing and credit control... or even fundraising.In the private sector, you can choose to work for companies of any size, an operation of the single person in a high-street company, a Bank, a broker insurance or even a multinational in one of these roles : on the payroll, information management, analysis of risk or control production, budgeting, billing, and credit.AND IN THE FUTURE?That the initial qualification, that you earned during your learning of accounting could be your springboard to a career high-paying Accounting via the AAT - ACA Fast Track Charter. It would really be your shortcut to a prestigious career: for example, over 67% of all Accountants qualified working as CEO or the finance administration in the FTSE 100 are qualified ACA.