Reflection on Financial Accounting Course and Career Pathways

19 September 2018
: __________

REFLECTION 1
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Application of professional knowledge and skills in the workplace..........................................2
Career pathways.........................................................................................................................3
Variety of professional roles......................................................................................................4
Strengths and weaknesses in relation to Chartered Accountant Course....................................5
Case Study..................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................7

REFLECTION 2
Introduction
Self-reflection is defined as a process of careful evaluation of one’s own thoughts, beliefs,
and behaviour (Brown, Dillard & Hopper, 2015). In terms of the studying subjects like
financial accounting, it would help me in assessing my already existing skills and the scope
for improvement in the same. I believe reflection based writing is an important exercise,
because it will let me develop the new skills and review the effectiveness of the same. Thus,
the three chief benefits of reflection can be listed as follows.
 Strengthening Emotional Intelligence
 Acting With Integrity
 Being More Confident
The profession of accountancy is all pervasive and ever changing. The profession has
become a major subject of scrutiny in these days, because of the involvement of the range of
stakeholders and resources globally (Schön, 2017). In addition, scrutiny has been placed on
the behaviour of the accounting firms, the usefulness of the accounting information produced
and the overall professional development.
This report is the reflection about the learnings I have gained during the financial
accounting course and the effect of the same on my emotional wellness and personality. The
report would cover the SWOT matrix in terms of the learning of the course.
Application of professional knowledge and skills in the workplace
The course has enabled me to understand the basics of the accounting. With the help
of the knowledge gained, I can say that manual accounting process refers to the set of the
processes used to keep the record by hand instead of using the computer-automated systems
for the same. According to me, there are a number of factors, which contribute towards the
effectiveness of the manual processed accounting records and the overall management of the
entities. These factors are explained as follows.
The first factor that is crucial for the efficient preparation of the manual accounting
processed records is the coordination and the communication between the team members of
an enterprise. This is useful not just to carry the routine tasks, but also to the tasks that are
incident to the accounting department such as drafting of the emails, letters, and preparation
of reports, interpretations, and communications internally and externally. I feel, the