Chartered Accountants are Ireland’s leading business professionals and work in all business sectors – from science and technology to agribusiness and finance. Many leading companies have a Chartered Accountant as their Financial Director or Chief Executive and the top 10 professional accounting firms are “Chartered” firms. If you're a school leaver in Ireland or Northern Ireland, check out our presentation to tell you more about the career. Got questions at the end? Find us on Facebook with any questions! www.facebook.com/CharteredAccountantsIreland

1. Chartered
Accountancy
Your Business
Career

3. Business is
Ireland’s
lifeblood,
chartered
accountancy is
at the heart of it
all.

4. Practice Business

5. What could you do as a chartered accountant?
Advise
businesses
and individuals
Where should
Facebook locate?
Report
for
decision-making
Should O2 launch their
“48” network?
Manage
businesses, solve
problems
How can EMI make
money with music
downloads?

6. Good reasons to
become a
chartered
accountant
6

7. Laurence
O’Brien
FCA
Ronan
Dunne
CEO
Deirdre
Somers
CEO
John
Herlihy
FCA
One | Work in any sector

8. Two | Get to the top

9. Three | Travel the world
3,500 members
in 92 countries
inc. 1,000 in Australia
International network
of over 700,000
professionals

10. Four | Be better paid
€49,500
Avg. Salary of a Newly-
qualified accountant
€87,500
Avg. salary of a Chartered
Accountant, Leinster
region
Receive a training wage, through training contract

11. Five | A Secure Job
98% employment
Area where there is
a skills shortage
Make a real
difference to your
workplace

12. Six | The chartered edge
78%
Of students qualify
in four years or
less (faster than
elsewhere)
70%
Average pass rate.
Higher than other
options
Be part of a network
of high-achievers
in Ireland and
worldwide

13. Chartered accountancy
may be for you if you
• Can analyse & interpret
figures
• Like using computers
• Have good communication
skills
• Are an ambitious person –
50% of all students are
female
• Like solving problems

14. Study with Chartered
Accountants Ireland
(exemptions and entry
pathway depend on prior
learning) under training
contract or flexible route in
Practice or Business
Study with Chartered
Accountants Ireland
(with exemptions if you
meet the criteria) under
training contract or flexible
route in Practice or Business
Option 1
Direct School
Leaver Pathway
Secure a training contract
in business or practice and
study for one year with
Accounting Technicians
Ireland
Continue to training
contract and progress study
with Chartered
Accountants Ireland
Secure an Accounting
Technician qualification
Complete a 3rd level
Degree
Study or perhaps work in
another industry
Option 2
Accounting Technicians
Pathway
Option 3
Third Level Pathway
Option 4
Becoming a Chartered
Accountant later
Study with Chartered
Accountants Ireland under
training contract or flexible
route in Practice or Business
(exemptions depend on the
degree and/or Masters)
Qualify as Chartered Accountant, then:
Work in Business, practice,
financial services, public
sector, education
Work Internationally Start Your Own Business
Optional Accountancy
Master after some degrees

15. Accounting Technicians
• Secure a qualification as an Accounting
Technician - apply to study directly with
Accounting Technicians Ireland.
• Studies normally take 2 years.
Once you have satisfactorily passed the
Accounting Technicians Ireland exams
you can accumulate the work
experience required to qualify and work
as an Accounting Technician, or apply
to study with Chartered Accountants
Ireland.
• How to apply? Apply directly to
Accounting Technicians Ireland
– Not CAO

16. Interested? What to do now?
One
Two
Three
Consider a business subject for your
Leaving Cert or A Levels
Research university degrees that will give
you exemption
Know that there are flexible routes too
(many students come from non-Business
courses)

17. Get to the top
Earn good money
Travel the world
Work in any industry
Get the Chartered edge
Have a secure job
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