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Accountancy career

  • 16-07-2009 12:33pm
    #1
    Kee1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭


    Hi all,
    I am looking for some advice please. I am currently working as an engineer. After 5 years in this role, I am looking at a complete change of career. I am very interested in becoming an accountant. I am currently looking at applying for the ICAI's Elevation Programme.
    At the moment I am doing all my research about accountancy before I leap into the study.

    Apart from the long path of study ahead of me, I guess I am looking for your opinion on:
    • Does anybody recommend the ICAI's elevation programme?
    • Will I find it pretty tough getting a trainee accountant role in the near future? To fully qualify as a chartered acc, i need 3 years work experience in a firm.
    • Am I too old at the age of 27 to starting down this path?
    All answers much appreciated. :)
    Thanks.


Comments

  • #2
    smcgiff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    Kee1 wrote: »
    Am I too old at the age of 27 to starting down this path?


    Definitely not. If you can afford to be a student/trainee then go for it!


  • #3
    prinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    Kee1 wrote: »
    Does anybody recommendthe ICAI's elevation programme?

    You'd really have to have gone through the programme tbh and because it's new....
    Kee1 wrote: »
    Will I find it pretty tough getting a trainee accountant role in the near future? To fully qualify as a chartered acc, i need 3 years work experience in a firm.

    Pretty tough but not impossible. AFAIK under the Elevation Programme you can do your work experience in whatever industry your in, as long as you have a CA training manager. Doesn't have to be in a firm.
    Kee1 wrote: »
    Am I too old at the age of 27 to starting down this path?

    Not at all. However if you go down the accountancy firm trainee route you should be prepared for a huge decrease in pay and / or living standards tbh.


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