"When did accounting become a low-end profession?" This is one of the most discussed topics among finance professionals in the know-how. And the question was raised by a recent interview in Beijing, while being repeatedly broken wall, began to wonder if they are too bad a girl.
The reason most companies rejected her turned out to be that she was too old, unattached, and unstable. Then it was hard to get an invitation to an educational institution, I did not expect to let her wait a few hours, a variety of not to mention the late interview came to the interviewer, asked the most is not professional knowledge, work experience, but you single? When to get married, stable? Parents family situation. Can accept overtime, single rest whether to accept consideration, so that the subject can not help but begin to doubt, just now the interview is really financial? Should older women be discriminated against? Even feel unfair.
In the 30s, it is indeed a very awkward age to meet the subject of this situation does make people very sympathetic. But put aside the sympathy factor to say, any industry in your graduation a few years later if the relevant promotion, to find a job again when you can only go to compete with some fresh graduates of the young, which in itself is no advantage of the thing. And looking at the subject, it should be the case that you are still interviewing for some basic accounting posts after several years of work.
02Many people say that accounting has now become a low-end industry, in fact, still do not see the reality. Because the bottom base of accounting is now large, so the income of the average accounting practitioner is relatively low. Do not believe that you go to the recruitment website to see, in the north of Guangzhou and Shenzhen and other major cities intermediate accountant salary treatment is relatively high, part of the objective scale of the enterprise, give the financial manager, financial director's monthly salary even reached 100,000 +, 50,000 +, the certified public accountant, not to mention. Therefore, in order not to do low-end accounting, you have to adapt to the times, re-education, to improve themselves, to avoid engaging in repetitive and simple accounting work.
So for the question of whether accounting is a low-end profession, it also depends on oneself. Only simple accounting of the old accountant and a good financial management of the novice current can not be compared. So, accounting is a million dollars, the older the more popular, this old is not age and seniority, but experience. And this experience is your understanding of accounting work and the ability to learn quickly. Experience here includes both old accounting skills and financial management skills. If your job is to simply enter accounting entries, then there is too much substitutability. When you have more years of experience, the cost to the company will also be higher, so it is only a matter of time before you are laid off.
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Nowadays, if accounting and finance want to be more and more popular the older you get as in the past, you can't let yourself stay at the level of bookkeeping and tax preparation. Times in the development, the industry is constantly updated iteration, to be in the industry based, we need to learn to grow their own. For fresh graduates, education may be a knock on the door. But for social workers, professional certificates are the best proof. For example, the junior title certificate is one of them.
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Why can't you just apply for intermediate?
Why can't you apply directly for intermediate? Let's first take the Beijing intermediate accountant registration requirements to analyze. According to the document of Beijing Municipal Finance Bureau, "Beijing Finance Association [2019] No. 281? Notice on Matters Related to the 2019 Beijing Municipal Accounting Professional and Technical Intermediate and Senior Qualification Examination", the Beijing municipal intermediate accountant application requirements for 2019 are:
1.Obtain a college degree and engage in accounting work for 5 years;
2.Obtain a college degree and engage in accounting work for 4 years;
3.Obtain a double bachelor's degree or Graduated from graduate school and has been engaged in accounting work for 2 years;
4. Obtained a master's degree and has been engaged in accounting work for 1 year;
5. Obtained a doctoral degree.
The above qualifications or degrees refer to the qualifications (degrees) recognized by the state education administrative department. The relevant accounting work years, refers to the applicant to obtain the required academic qualifications before and after the total time engaged in accounting work, the cut-off date for the examination registration year by the end of the year (the end of 2019.) .
For those who have passed the national unified examination and obtained the intermediate qualification of economic, statistical and auditing professional and technical qualifications, and have the above basic conditions, they can apply for the intermediate qualification examination.
So, for accountants who do not meet these requirements, it is better to take a junior certificate first.
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What is the importance of the primary certificate
1) The primary certificate is the basic necessary certificate for financial practitioners
Currently the accounting industry is in excess of demand, only the accounting certificate, without any other professional certificates and no accounting-related experience, it is more difficult to find accounting jobs. The junior accounting title certificate is a good knock on the door of your career development. For those who intend to engage in financial work, accounting-related certificates are necessary certificates. Moreover, many companies now pay more and more attention to the financial people for their own professional ability to improve, especially for the freshly graduated college students. Many times the certificate can save your education and help you get priority admission.
For large enterprises or state-owned enterprises, institutions, academic qualifications and related certificates are particularly important; furthermore, the junior title certificate as the threshold certificate of the accounting industry, it is particularly important to get.
2) Policy support
In 2018, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security issued the Notice on the Implementation of Unemployment Insurance Support for Skill Enhancement "Youth Wing Action" (Human Resources and Social Security Department [2018] No. 36), deciding to implement the Unemployment Insurance Support for Skill Enhancement nationwide from 2018 onwards. "Youth Wing Action", the introduction of skills upgrading subsidy policy for enterprise employees who have holders of primary, intermediate and advanced vocational qualification certificates or vocational skill level certificates.
And the national "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" clearly states that by 2020, the number of accountants with primary qualifications will reach about 5 million, and the current shortage of primary qualifications is still very large, so there are both challenges and opportunities.
3) The knock on the door of the promotion and salary increase
After the abolition of the accounting license, the junior title certificate is not only the ticket to engage in accounting work, but also a stepping stone for the development of your career. Especially from the change in the number of primary applicants this year, we know that the future of the accounting industry more and more saturated with basic talents. Coupled with the increasing speed of change in the industry, with the widespread use of financial robots, grass-roots accountants can survive less and less space, if you still want to engage in accounting-related work, only the basic practitioner experience without a professional certificate, then the next elimination is you.