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Question for anyone who is a Book keeper/Accountant

  • 10-02-2020 7:38pm
    #1
    gradmedgirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 ✭


    Hey!

    I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice. I'm taking a gap year from college (currently studying a stem degree at uni) - I wanted to do a book keeping course (not so much to become an accountant or anything but just a general bookkeeper)

    Can someone please answer 2 questions who is a current bookeeper:

    1) What sort of content do you learn in a formal course? Is it just Excel, Quickbooks and revenue law? Could you be precise on what a course teaches you - as I just wanna know exactly if its worth spending 1,000eu on a 8 week course in IBAT

    2) Is there usually progession, such as then moving into accountancy tech positions?

    I'd love if someone working as a book keeper could answer, as I'd love to know how I can pick up this trade skill during my gap year!

    Best,

    Aura

    2) I


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  • #2
    Jim2007
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 10,613 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jim2007


    Answers to your questions:

    1 - How are we supposed to know what you will learn on some random course you picked from a college? On a quick of the college, I see an 8 week course that does not teach Excel nor Quickbooks and only tax law in so far as it relates to payroll. Read the course content!

    2 - Is there progression from an 8 week bookkeeper course, unlikely. But like every other area, if you are bright, put in five or six years hard study you come out the other side as a qualified accountant.

    Having gone through the whole thing and having spent years working in technology related areas I can tell you it requires as much effort as obtaining a master’s degree, but much more exacting as clients don’t pay you to get it almost right, so the failure rate is higher.

    What exactly are you trying to achieve with this on a gap year from college?


  • #3
    gradmedgirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 ✭gradmedgirl


    Jim2007 wrote: »
    Answers to your questions:

    1 - How are we supposed to know what you will learn on some random course you picked from a college? On a quick of the college, I see an 8 week course that does not teach Excel nor Quickbooks and only tax law in so far as it relates to payroll. Read the course content!

    2 - Is there progression from an 8 week bookkeeper course, unlikely. But like every other area, if you are bright, put in five or six years hard study you come out the other side as a qualified accountant.

    Having gone through the whole thing and having spent years working in technology related areas I can tell you it requires as much effort as obtaining a master’s degree, but much more exacting as clients don’t pay you to get it almost right, so the failure rate is higher.

    What exactly are you trying to achieve with this on a gap year from college?

    Hey thanks for the reply.

    I ended up doing an evening book keeper course in one of my local colleges!

    Honestly it was just to keep me busy - not planning on going towards a career in it in anyway, just wanted to learn something new!

    Gap year was actually to focus on some other exams I am taking, so this was just an added benefit


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