Career Advice - October 2008
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Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by Robert Bruce for CareerinAudit.com — No comments
There is a bit of an assumption that the same term means the same thing right around the accounting globe. But the more you look the more you discover that there are huge cultural differences. And these differences are not just stumbling blocks to any efforts at global harmonisation. They are also obstacles to the auditor making assumptions about the integrity of financial reporting across a ...
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Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by Sarah Perrin for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Whether male or female, your career success depends on proving yourself worthy for promotion. Those who perceive glass ceilings or positive discrimination may only be harming themselves. Careers in Audit’s survey on this topic produced an intriguing result: nine out of ten male audit and accountancy professionals surveyed felt they had been adversely affected by attempts to create a more ...
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Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by Robert Bruce for CareerinAudit.com — No comments
If a young auditor were looking around the globe and wondering where the best long-term prospects were to be found what should they be looking at? Of, course they would be looking at London, now the fabled global financial centre where fine wine, large remuneration packages, and even sunshine abounds. But that could be short-term. As a journalist I know that if everyone is writing articles ...
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Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
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 Design... You’re an auditor. Perhaps an accountant. You may be employed; you may be self employed. You could be between jobs or having a career break. Or you may be considering moving into, or out ...
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Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by Neil Baker for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
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. Thankfully, this is no longer the case. The internal auditors you meet nowadays are a more cheery bunch. Their pay and status are increasing in line with a ...
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Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by Robert Bruce for CareerinAudit.com — No comments
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 children blowing the candles out on their 5th birthday cakes recently will have been blissfully unaware that they shared a birthday with the biggest of the ...
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Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by Neil Baker for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
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 about people being an organisation’s most important assets, but so often it’s just empty words. That’s as true for finance professionals as it is for ...
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Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by Max Williamson for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Why do practices lose graduates? We look at how they can halt the outflow of talent. Graduates enter accountancy for many reasons. For some, it is a career that they have moved towards since choosing an accountancy related degree, while for others the move into the profession is a haphazard affair, triggered by a lack of any other uses for that degree in Classics. The popularity of accountancy ...
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Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by Max Williamson for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In the Region Focus series of articles we focus on different regions of the world and 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 covered Russia , Greece , France , Eastern Europe , the Cayman Islands , Spain and Australia . If you would like to know more about working ...
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Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Research by CareersinAudit.com shows a massive majority of accountants believe advancing years will do nothing to advance your career. A damning 79% of respondents said that age discrimination was an ugly professional reality, and 74% said they believed accountants had missed out on a promotion because of it. A whole batch of prejudices also raised their head, with gender (74%), disability (68%) ...