Three months' debate begins
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New training methods are planned to take effect for chartered accountants in Britain after 1990. The controversy as to how best to train these service providers has been touched off by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales with its report entitled, "Effective Education and Training for the 21st Century." A symposium at Robinson College, Cambridge, held in September 1986, discussed the current state of accountancy training methods in Britain. Symposium participants seemed to be in general agreement on two training issues: (1) that newly certified accountants were not as well trained as needed (especially considering their average starting salary of 15,000 pounds sterling), and (2) that educational and training methods had to be improved as a consequence. Among the issues discussed upon which agreement could not be reached were: whether accountancy training should be geared to developing people with a general business knowledge or a knowledge of accounting, whether practical experience should concentrate on the more technical aspects of accounting or the more general aspects of doing business, whether accountancy educational institutions should raise their entrance requirements, whether accountancy examinations should be administered earlier in the training to eliminate underqualified candidates prior to years of training, and whether the current training methods (known as front-end loading) benefited trainees or the profession as a whole.
Publication Name: Accountancy
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0001-4664
Year: 1986
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Accountants: the facts and the figures
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Accountants are most likely to be young, male, and adventurous according to research on 500 accountants conducted by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and Marketing and Opinion Research International. According to the research: 91% of accountants are male; 59% work in practice; 24% have worked in a foreign country; and two-thirds earn more than 25,000 pounds sterling a year and almost one quarter earn over 40,000 pounds sterling. Results also indicate that: 28% of accountants find jobs through friends; 79% are computer literate and have a personal computer at work; and 66% are unlikely to change jobs in the next two years.
Publication Name: Accountancy
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0001-4664
Year: 1989
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