Monthly Career Clinic Articles
These are all career clinic articles added to the system in date order.
Each month we will be focusing on a different region of the world and will provide tips for auditors thinking about working in these areas. If you have a particular region you would like us to investigate, please let us know here. We have so far...
Carol McLachlan, theaccountantscoach, is a qualified accountant, NLP Practitioner and professionally qualified coach. Her 18 year career at Ernst and Young as an Auditor and Director of Resources has equipped her with a real understanding of the...
May 2008: Tips for Auditors in their 20s & 30s
As Time Goes By Beginning of a series of features about what opportunities are available to accountants throughout their careers, Liz Fisher focuses on those in their 20s. You are in your 20s and newly qualified as an accountant. Congratulations! But...
It is highly unlikely in today’s environment that any multinational would appoint a head of finance who hadn’t proved their worth in an international environment. Far from being a busman's holiday, appointments abroad demonstrates mobility, flexibility...
Mar 2008: Recession-Proof Your Career!
Max Williamson's top tips for auditors. It’s not just the pundits who are expecting a recession this year. Research from CareersinAudit.com reveals that 41% of British accountants believe the down-turn will kick in some time in 2008. Many of those will...
Nov 2007: Your Career by Design
Your Career by Design by Carol McLachlan Carol McLachlan, theaccountantscoach, shares her unique mix of experience from the worlds of Big 4 audit and personal development. Say goodbye to career by default. It's time to embrace your Career by...
Oct 2007: Neil Baker argues why your employer should love you more....
As an enormously valuable finance professional, does your employer treat you with the love and care that you deserve? The sad answer is quite likely to be… no. But the good news is they might soon have to change. We’ve all heard the rhetoric...
Make sure you make the internet work for you, not against you, in your jobhunting, says Sarah Perrin It’s impossible for most people to imagine life without the internet. How did we cope without it? Whether communicating with colleagues on the other...
Aug 2007: Five years on, Robert Bruce questions the value of Sarbanes-Oxley...
The greatest audit scandal of our generation may well be receding swiftly into the past. But every so often an anniversary comes along to remind us of what happened and to remind us of the lessons which we may, or may not, have learned. Small...
July 2007: Neil Baker discusses how perceptions of internal auditors are changing
Internal auditing used to have a rather dreary reputation. It was a career cul-de-sac to be avoided at all costs, staffed by clipboard-wielding pedants, blessed with 20-20 hindsight, obsessed with telling people what they had done wrong....
