Where do you search for an accountant qualification?
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try the open university or learn direct.
Are you looking to become an accountant, or find one to assist you?
I assume u want to become an accountant and am looking for info re how to.
Firstly, there are 3 accountancy qualification -
ACA - Association of chartered accountant
ACCA - Association of Certified Chartered Accountant
and CIMA - Chartered Institute of Management Accountant
In terms of market value ACA tops, then ACCA.
For ACA u need 3.5 yrs experience in an accountancy firm. Big firms like PWC, Deloitte, KPMG and Ernst and young (see accountancyage.com for the full list of top 50 accountacny firms in UK) take around 300 trainees each year.
They will hire guys from any backgroud - arts, literature, engineering, business, law. But u hav to show the interest.
So first u apply to these firms for trainee jobs (also called graduate jobs) and then they will take responsibility of your registration with ACA institute (it's ICAEW in uk and ICAI in ireland). These firms will take care of all ur registration process and apart from grad salary u'll get around 2.5months off for exams.
So, if u r a graduate, then take the top 50 accountancy firm list from www.accountancyage.com, and go to each firms' website and then fill out their graduate applicatin forms. BEST APPROACH
If u don't get selected apply to the institute directly, get the qualification of ur own. wait for a few years to qualify and then enter into the market.
More information:
WWW.ICAI.IE - aca in Ireland
WWW.ICAEW.CO.UK - aca in UK
WWW.ACCGLOBAL.COM - acca website
WWW.CIMAGLOBAL.COM - cima
also look into PWC, KPMG etc website where they describe their grad program and explain about aca and acca.
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