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You've been qualified for some time now, and you're yet to build a specialty, what is happening? You don't even belong to any faculty in your professional body.
The Accounting Profession is rapidly dynamic.
A thread.
You've been qualified for some time now, and you're yet to build a specialty, what is happening? You don't even belong to any faculty in your professional body.
The Accounting Profession is rapidly dynamic.
A thread.
The Professional Accountant that will survive and remain relevant is one that is specialized. The one that has gone a step or more further to build a specialty in IT & Tech, Finance, Data, Oil & Gas/Energy, Taxation (Int’l Taxation), Health, Public Sector, etc.
Take Data for instance, I’d tell you a story.
A close friend and a fellow CA who’s been an Experienced Audit Associate at a firm for a while, recently decided to switch up and move into Banking, the role he applied for was Fraud Analyst,
A close friend and a fellow CA who’s been an Experienced Audit Associate at a firm for a while, recently decided to switch up and move into Banking, the role he applied for was Fraud Analyst,
but he underestimated the requirements of the job. Fraud Analysis & Forensic Assignments are entirely different from statutory audits in scope and methodology. In this instance, the guys at the bank needed a data analyst who is also a CA.
With the tons of financial data that flow through the bank, they needed someone that could take on tons of information, break them down into patterns, study the patterns and understand the likelihood of something specific.
Someone that can work with engineers and others to develop programs to read through mountains of financial data to find fraud, money laundering, or something of the sort. This is not your everyday Professional Accountant. And oh, my friend didn’t get the job, he wasn’t qualified.
So, if you’re yet to start building that specialty, now is the best time to do it. Identify the areas that interest you the most, join a faculty and take part in their activities. Identify that next professional training that will seal your specialty and start working towards
getting it. Network, read and research things outside your everyday job, to understand where your current industry is headed.
I had written a thread about my personal journey here, you could read it too https://twitter.com/Richmondokezie/status/1215232847151353856?s=20
I had written a thread about my personal journey here, you could read it too https://twitter.com/Richmondokezie/status/1215232847151353856?s=20
