Sneak Peek Series - EHSAN Bhai - Chartered Accountant ..

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Thanks every so much EB for your valuable time and sharing all this knowledge with us .

I have two questions :

  • Supposing someone has a successful sales and marketing career .. at some point they want to change careers .. can they move into accountancy? what are the steps they can take to do so?

  • Also for someone who is a chartered accountant , what should be the best Career progression strategy that they should follow?

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In Allah we believe, rest we audit :barbie:

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Muqawee , are you an auditor too ? :omg:

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good Q CB
- lets suppose if a person has non accuontancy degree for eg BA and a person suddenly got an interest in accounting how should he she start his/her career? what should be the first step then?

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Yes, I’m. :slight_smile:

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Anyone can change their career and start accountancy, however I must caution that it will not be very rewarding if you have crossed into 40's and decided to change over to accountancy. I dont know about other countries but in UK there is an age bias within the profession.

There are many routes a quantified accountant can take, they can continue within the profession, or move into taxation, corporate takeovers, business turnarounds, restructuring, financial markets, banking, own business, insolvency, forensic accounting etc. The possibilities are numerous.

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Depends which qualification you want. If you want to go for ACCA or ACMA than you just join the relevant course and study for it. If you wish to do Chartered accountancy than you will need to obtain articles with a firm before starting the course.

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are accountants rich?

will i be rich?

from an accountants perspective, money or doing what you like?

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^ Ehsan Bhai is an accountant, not a najoomi. :snooty:

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LOL, stop hating me, just cuz imma girl :( syed saaab.

Q: do you think learning should be a lifelong process

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If you never pass this entry into your books, you will always remain rich.

Shopping DEBIT
Cash CREDIT

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:hehe:

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learning should be a life long process, agreed!

but if its regarding changing of careers then the age is important for that, as EB mentioned in one of his posts.

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From an accountants perspective doing what I like.

Will you be rich. :hmmm:

I will let you know in a few years time when I know what your future hubby does. :smiley:

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i dont even know what youre saying. :(

i want answerssssss.

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Wow, I didn’t even know Ehsan uncle was a CA. Nor did I know you had worked in KSA… for so long… for a prince n all!! :hayaa:

Q: What advise would you give to someone wanting to work in SA as a CA?

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having worked in Saudi for 20 years my advice would be that if you are young and just qualified not only as a CA but any other profession go to middle east if you want to but spend a max of 4 years there, accumulate some money and return back to base and continue with your chosen profession. The longer you stay out there the more difficult it is to adjust back into your own country especially job wise. stay more than 10 years in Middle East and you hit 40, you have got very little chance of getting a job back in UK. When I came back to UK in 2002 I faced three big difficulties:

I was over 50
I had been out of the country for 20 years
9/11 had just taken place and I was a muslim

These three factors combined meant there was no job for me so I started my own. Today we employ nearly 200 people and also interviewed one of our team mod for a job in my organisation once. At that time she didnt know me and I didnt know her either. :smiley:

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Shakuntala devi? :hmmm:

runs

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You frightened of Shakuntla devi, Thought you were brave. No one is afraid of her. :nahi:

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Aap zyada hee pangay nahi le raheen

http://www.paklinks.com/gs/images/smilies/mad.gif

Setting a bad exmaple :nahi: