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i need advice please

  • 14-01-2008 11:11pm
    #1
    estar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭


    hi

    i need advice regarding my career and what to do

    1. did BA
    2. did post grad diploma
    3. worked in IT for 3 years
    4. started CIMA
    5. got job as systems accountant in financial services
    6. decided to get qualified properly and changed to a role in a plc
    doing regulatory accounting and some systems work
    - not really going well. my problem is that i have never really
    produced a set of accounts from trial balance. i can work things out
    and solve problems, but dont really know how the basics work.

    should i leave this job after a year and go back to IT - or is it
    possible for me to operate as a proper accountant doing month ends
    and financial reporting.

    im heading into do an IFRS diploma but i dont know that many
    debits and credits - i know the basics but havent really got much
    experience in posting journals. im scared to talk my way into a
    job with month ends and posting journals and be revealed as
    someone that doenst know very much.

    has anyone faced this problem of transitioning from business analyst
    to proper accountant - accountants seem to feel that you have to
    have been an accountant in the womb to be any good at it.

    id say id be 40 before i got proper work in the job im in.

    and im going to fail my final exam on thursday -results are out.
    and the pass rate is only 52% of all people that sit it pass.

    just feeling very down about the whole thing.


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