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  • A Global Career in Accountancy

    Globalisation has meant that accountants and auditors now do their work in many different markets around the world, with employers increasingly looking to recruit for audit jobs overseas
  • Recession-Proof Your Career!

    Given how quickly the economic situation can change, it’s vital to have yourself in the correct position if you want to maintain career momentum in the down-turn.
  • Are you Working for the Best Firm?

    Are you working in the firm most likely to deliver career fulfilment? Sarah Perrin considers the relative merits and opportunities in the big, the medium and the small.
  • Ethics vs Career Success

    For all accountants, perhaps particularly external and internal auditors, having an ethical approach to your work is vital. Meet the ethical standards expected of you, and you should inspire others and gain your career rewards.
  • Auditors as Ethical Arbiters

    Those in an auditor job, whether they serve in an internal or external capacity, are charged with ensuring that companies operate to high ethical standards.
  • Prejudi-shhh…

    Although one would assume, or at least hope, that discrimination had been largely forced out of the relatively refined worlds of finance and professional services, CareersinAudit.com received what can only be described as very disappointing responses to a survey on the subject.
  • How your CV will grab a reader's attention

    With just sixty seconds to make an impact, how can you ensure your CV will grab a reader’s attention? Try showing them you’re not like every other professional auditor, writes Neil Baker
  • The Pitfalls & Temptations Facing 3,000 New Accountants

    Many organisations are offering high salaries and exotic travel to lure newly-qualified chartered accountants, but job-seekers need to look beyond short-term gain to whether the role will enhance their career longer-term.
  • Prove Yourself Worthy for Promotion

    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.
  • Changing Perceptions of Auditors.

    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 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.
  • 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.
  • Staying Power

    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.
  • Age Discrimination Rife in Accountancy

    A survey by CareersinAudit.com shows a massive majority of accountants believe advancing years will do nothing to advance your career.