Accountancy

Traditionally seen as one of the least exciting but safest career areas accountants now find that the world is their oyster -- their skills being required in all businesses from the City to charities, schools to hospitals. The slow-moving, pen and ink ledgers have gone, and the only connection with the past is that accountancy for those who are successful remains a very well paid profession.

It has also become a lot more fun, as accountants find their skills required across a wider range of organisations than ever before.

This allows more opportunity to specialise -- for instance it would be possible to concentrate solely on the requirements of the health service, whether for a GP fundholding practice of an opted out hospital or a regional authority.

Accountancy disciplines are required there as much as in the most competitive of corporate tigers.

That leaves an enviable range of options from working for a professional partnership to climbing the corporate ladder, to working in the public sector to self-employment.

This book will explain all of them.