Carl
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Found a potential job as a trainee accountant, Not trained in that area or anything, but fancy a crack at it. Just about to get stuck into a cover letter for it. Whats the verdict from those in that area? I studied it at a-level for a while but had to drop it due to demands from the other course I was doing, that was just the basic stuff though, balancing the books with the little in and out tables.
Do you find it hard? boring? is the training hard? big workload?
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deano87
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Apparently, good accountants don't like to hire people that have done it at Uni. They like to employ people, then train and nurture them to their way of working.
So you'd be doing it the right way to make a go/career of it.
Just whether you can hack using figures all day?!
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Brett
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Not to mention it means they can pay you shite pay for 5 or 6 years. I wouldn't bother personally, boring as hell.
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strick206
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trainee accountants dont get paid to badly really, i have seen 14k for a trainee a year local to me
i am in my final year at uni, it is very challenging all be it some parts are very boring
i cant see how a accounting firm wouldnt want to take a graduate on, because they will have some knowledge of the job
plus, once you graduate, you are far from finished training, ACCA, CIMA or ICAEW, and that gives plenty of chance for the accountancy firm to train you how they wish
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Colin
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Wouldnt be my choice of career!
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strick206
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quote:
Originally posted by Colin
Wouldnt be my choice of career!
different jobs suit different people 
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Robbo
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OK... first things first, lets be quite honest from the outset... unelss you luck into a good job, accountancy is BORING as shite... same thing mostly day in day out regardless of what you do... constant training, the money and respect only comes in when you bother to qualify so you can add up some years of studying as well... accoutnants tend to work long hours and are hardly well respecte dby people and its hardly a galmnaorous career
So why do peopel do it? Well, Im qualified AAT and ACCA and Ive recently turned 26 and I work for one fo the bigegst companie sin the country on roughly £32k + juciy benefits and ovetime... so its quite simple reallty... put in the effort an dit pays damn well but FFS dont for one seocnd beleive that its interesting, cos it really isnt
As for the uni vs QBE route... yes, QBE is better and tbh, sit a degree-qualifuied accoutnant down in any company in the UK next to someone whios been doing the job for afew years then sit back and laugh  That said, the degree one will probs be on sthe same money but the skills taught to uni graduates is IMO too advanced for the jobs that most walk into afterwards
IMO
I starte din practice with an alevel and gcse in accy in 99 on £9.5k... sinc ethen, as said, ive qualifdied AAT and ACCA and held down deveral very dull positions, qualified int he summr and when i move into my next role i would be hoping to nudge £40k with beenfits, esp if theres some peopel mgmt thrown in... fingers corssed anhoo
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BigSte
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yeah I would agree with Robbo, quite boring really but you would probably get that with any job.
Way I look at it, my job is pretty easy, nice atmosphere etc and get paid well (roughly £28k which is good for up North) and I'm only 22.
I would definitely say that the qualified by experience and having the professional quals is the best route but each to their own.
My reasoning for this is we have just taken on a girl same age as me after finishing her degree last year and she was on £10k less.
Be prepared for a lot of studying though mate if you're serious about making something out of it. I started on AAT straight from school, then staright onto ACCA. Only one more year to go tho now 
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Robbo
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Yep,. theres money there if your prepared to work for it but it can be a long boring slog
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Carl
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just spoken to my sister in law who is an accountant, she can put a good word in for me at the firm she works at in future, so i'm thinking of going for it at this place and seeing if i like it, then I can switch over, as she has heard that the firm that the job is at promise alot but don't really deliver.
What does the AAT entail then? and how long will I be at that?
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Robbo
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have a look ont he website, takes 3 years max
http://www.aat.org.uk
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Natalie
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I work in practice, started with AAT in 2000, qualified in that, now doing last level of ACCA, Im at home on study leave this week (yes I will be switching the computer off in a mo) 
I do like my job and really cant see myself going to work for industry, to me industry seems boring & same thing day in & day out, but everyone is different
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Matt L
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i started in a practice 6 months ago (doing the second year of aat atm) and it has its good times and bad times, it can be very boring but at times i enjoy it alot. good thing about where i work is theres only 3 of us atm so i do alot of different types of jobs. I think if i worked in a big place and did one thing day in and day out i wouldnt enjoy it as much.
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Robbo
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Originally posted by Natalie
to me industry seems boring & same thing day in & day out
This is perhaps more the case than in practice but there are generally far more opportunities in industry than practice... and essentially you are still doign the same thing but just for different people all the time
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