Why choose accountancy as a career?
What will you be when you lose the student label? Intellectual, emotionally intelligent, creative, expert, influential, secure, ambitious, curious, determined, innovative, inspiring? The last thing you want to be is an accountant, right? Actually, all these characteristics are core competencies for trainees and Partners alike at PwC, Our people are all those things to degrees and more. One thing is certainly true, the global demand for qualified finance professionals has never been higher, and their work more varied. Even during times of economic downturn good accountants are a valuable commodity to all types of business. You may be forgiven for thinking it’s a bit unfair you have to start your career voyage worrying whether the force 10 economic storm that seems to be abating may yet resurge, But if you’ve ambitions for a career at the sharp end of the business world then steering the accountancy course could mean you navigate to your destination successfully in spite of the economic
