College

Meglamonia

I'm in 6 th year and don't do accountancy I was wondering would accounting in college be difficult seeing Im not doing it for the leaving cert?

ruadhan

I'm pretty sure you don't need to study accountacy for the leaving to do any accounting course. Of course it would help and make some of your first year easier but I think as well that what they do in university is different enough to the lc course. You should be grand if you have an interest and ability. The only thin I would wonder is how do you know you want to study accounting if you've never done it? Or maybe you did business or jc?

pathway33

The lecturers will start from scratch and while you will have a steeper learning curve than guys who did accounting for the leaving cert, it is very doable for a newbie to accounting.

In fact in some ways you will have an advantage over guys who did accounting for the leaving cert. Take the cash flow statement in the leaving cert which is based on the uk and irish financial reporting standard of the same name. Well some colleges, in fact maybe even all at this stage follow the international accounting standards which for cash flow statements would present a different format.

afaik if you become an accountant for a big company even based in ireland it is international accounting standards you will be using, not irish ones. I think smaller irish companies still have the option to run with the local standards

unknown13

The lecturers will start from scratch. The advantage of doing accountancy is that you will have done it previously and know if you like or not. The disadvantage is that you might not like and will have no choice but to drop out of the course unless you are doing a general business degree which you specialise in an area one or two years into the degree.

Meglamonia

Thanks a million for the replies lads!that's that cleared up anyway.