What is the BEST job for a CA (Chartered Accountant), based on your experiences?
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Management Consultancy is without doubt the best role for a CA...\n\nIt is varied, high profile and very lucrative...
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Accounting is a sure bet (all companies will always look for journal keeper), but business (like stock exchange), being riskier, will often lead to much better and gratifying jobs than boring acocuntant-work-in-the-dark-of-everybody job.
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In terms of salary: depends. Whether you work on your own, and then, what you get is all yours...(and hourly fees can be rather ...interesting..). Or you enter a company, and you get a salary. Anyway, it's pretty good money... \n\nIn terms of hours: there is the busy season, when the financial statements are made, and there's the rest of the year, when you have to keep the day-to-day books and all... Quite a bit of work.\n\nAnyway, if you want to become a Chartered Certified Accountant, I'd strongly advise you to go for it. I'm about to do it myself, although I am aware of what it brings. I want a family myself, in a couple of years, but I think I will manage to mix the two.\n\nGood luck! :-)
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i believe business is better, business is a big realm and it always gives you the chance to go higher in the hierarchical system. accounting will most probably keep you as an accountant, senior accountant, or chief accounant.
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Here is a very interesting site that lists the top paying jobs for different education levels. So it can address many different angles of your question. \n\nhttp://www.resumagic.com/highestpayingjobs.html
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Any job can be best job, and any field can be best field. If you want stability than go for the local government jobs because they are more secure and have some standard. If you have more ambitions then join the corporate world. I mean private jobs. And the best job is to be self reliant , take some risk and do some business.Rest is hard work and luck.
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Indeed. Although the BSc(Hons) and the CA are not related, but are 2 distinct qualifications - with the CA being awarded in Scotland and ACA in England and Wales by the Institute of Chartered Accountants.
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There's always a bit of a down after the holidays as well as weather related issues.  Clouds always make people feel tired.\n\nI spent the first 3 years of my career as an accountant -- it's GREAT experience and really gives you insight into how a company works.  Use your experience to make something happen for you -- maybe think about getting a financial analysis role in a corporation.  That sometimes allows you to get into an operating unit within a corporation, which is where you can really make a great career for yourself.
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I went to school to be an Accountant.  I graduated 7 years ago.  I work in my field and I have ever since graduation.  One piece of advice I would give is that you literally have to manage your career, much the same way that a professional athelete would.  I keep a good recruiter (similar to an agent); when I find myself in a job that is not working out for myself or the employer, I start making plans to move on; I market myself quite heavily by building relationships with other people that work in my field.  I keep my resume and my skills current.  I have never settled for any job that does not somehow help me work towards my career goals.
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Does your school have a career center? If it does, you should stop in there, they probably have plenty of books to answer this question. \nYou could choose both. You could perform audits of the accounting system for companys. Its a pretty interesting career.\nAccountants have more job security and can stop learning and still find good jobs. Because of the nature of computers, they are always changing and so you must continue learning if you want to remain employed working with computers.
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I'm a CMA.  I can tell you that in the 10 years or so that I have been, its certainly gained more prestige in industry, to the point where quite a few jobs out there are looking for it.\n\nThat being said, getting your CPA and getting on with a public accounting firm (particularly big 4) is another notch up for sure.  If you put your time in at a public firm... say 5-7 years to get you to the manager level, you've got the golden key to a lot of high level corporate jobs.  If you're going to have anything to do with SEC reporting they particularly demand a CPA.  My understanding is that the price is pretty steep to get that golden key though... the burnout rate is pretty high.\n\nWhichever way you go, the future is certainly bright for accountants, at least as long as the whole Sarbanes-Oxley and hightened corporate governance and awareness is with us.\n\nGood luck.
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Yes.  In my experience a good CPA is worth it.
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I'm currently a staff auditor for a public accounting firm.  I chose audit because I believe that you learn more from audit than tax.  With tax you are in the same office each and every day and you do relatively the same thing day after day.\n\nI enjoy auditing because I have variety in my career.  I am not in the office all that often, maybe 1 week per month.  Sometimes more, sometimes less - depends on the client and the firm you work for.  I enjoy traveling to different areas and I get that opportunity.  I also like audit over tax because if you want to leave public accounting after a few years (with is pretty common in the profession) you have more career options than that from being a tax accountant.
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Im not sure of any good site... Maybe you could try http://www.connexions.gov.uk/ They should have a specialist consultant\n\nYou can definitely find a job based on you intrest,\n\nbesides Ive been told that if you do a job for the money and not because you enjoy it, you will earn less then doing a job you enjoy
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You might have trouble finding some work in Audit firms, unless you actually have audit experience.  Corporations would definitely hire someone with a CPA in most positions... except maybe positions that deal with some Canadian taxes or laws.  Otherwise, you shouldn't have any problem finding work.
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Well, unless you know someone who needs work done, I'd say you need to go to work for a CPA firm who performs outsourced work. Once you have a lot of experience and a good client base, MAYBE you'd be able to go out on your own and make good money at it. I guess you could advertise, but I know we like to hire firms who either have good referrals or who we have had good experiences with in the past.
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You don't have to be an accountant to work in an accounts department or accountancy firm. Lots of firms have "accounts clerks" who work with accountants. The work is probably more routine but if its calculations you want that might fit the bill.\n\nSomething else you could consider is a job analysing data, for example for a polling organisation or perhaps a council (traffic surveys etc). This would be more statistics-based.