Accountants work in a variety of roles within professional
services, industry and the public sector.
The career paths can be many and varied but, as you rise up the
ladder to become a partner of an accounting firm or a financial
director of a major company, there is tendency to begin to
specialise in an area of accounting or within an industry sector.
However, at more junior levels it is a portable career as all
organisations require accountants of some description.
The average accountant now earns more than £100,000, with
salaries and bonuses boosted by a shortage of highly-skilled
professionals (Survey by Robert Half for the Institute of Chartered
Accountants for England and Wales) (ICAEW).
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