Future Career Aspirations in Accounting

This assignment is a reflection paper on the potential benefits of working at Ferrier Hodgson, a leading accounting firm. The author outlines their interest in forensic accounting and how a graduate program at Ferrier Hodgson would contribute to their career development. They emphasize the importance of communication and commercial skills for success in the program and beyond.

Running head: ACCOUNTANTS IN THE PROFESSION 1
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REFLECTION 2: FERRIER HODGSON
Following my listening to the explication regarding the accounting professional in Ferrier
Hodgson, I have subsequently developed an interest and would wish to work for the firm upon
my graduation from the campus.
Ferrier Hodgson is among the hugest companies that specialize in accounting and
industry. The firm provides a range of services including forensic accounting, corporate
recovery, forensic IT, management consulting and corporate advisory (Fogarty, Zimmerman &
Jonas, 2017). The benefit of working in this company is that Ferrier Hodgson provides a range of
graduate opportunities referred to as vacationer program. Here, graduates are able to gain the
first-hand understanding of difference of work via such programs. The program further avails the
graduate with the opportunity to learn as well as experience over and above the mainstream
accounting roles including audit or tax (Bailey, Nigrini, Fleming, Hermanson, Kranacher, Riley
Jr & Hopwood, 2017).
As a graduate participant particularly, I will be able engage in the structured program,
become exposed to challenging/complex work, have a meaningful/interesting work right from
the first day, and work closely with my senior accountant on active issues. The programs further
avail useful social functions or events, supportive as well as open culture for my skills’
improvement.
My future career shall focus on accounting area like forensic accounting as a student
studying accounting professional. Here, four core areas including dispute advisory, business
valuations, investigation and contract compliance will be of my particular interest. I will need to
offer advice as an accounting in this service on technical accounting matters such as application
of accounting standards, business (other assets) valuation, solvency opinions, asset holding

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reconstruction, financial records reconstruction and interpretation as well as tracing of
transactions. It will also help me investigate on accounting manipulation as well as financial
reporting misstatements/intellectual property misuse besides confidential info/ fraud/misconduct.
To undertake the above tasks, I will have to analyze and subsequently reconstruct the
accounting records alongside business info, determine accounting evidence for such fraudulent/
negligent or wrongful activities as well as undertake the preparation of solvency reports. The
company expects me as a graduate to have strong communication skills alongside commercial
skills. With these skills, I am sure I will be able to leave the company a skilled and
knowledgeable accountant who is fully ready to face the outside world and tackle the myriad of
accounting contemporary issues.
I will strive to be endowed with these skills required by the company in order to gain
maximum from the vacationer programs that Ferrier Hodgson avail for me. This is because in the
absence of these commercial skills and communication skills, I will be disadvantaged relative to
my fellow students in terms of getting much out of the program (Dang, He & Sun, 2017). I am
confident that the experience I will have gained from the vacationer program offered by Ferrier
Hodgson will help me not only shape my future career path but also develop me personally and
professionally (Raji, 2017).

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References
Bailey, C. D., Nigrini, M. J., Fleming, A. S., Hermanson, D. R., Kranacher, M. J., Riley Jr, R. A.,
... & Hopwood, W. S. (2017). Journal of Forensic Accounting Research A Publication of
the Forensic Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association.
Dang, L., He, D., & Sun, Y. (2017). Does mandatory IFRS convergence constrain rounding
manipulations in accounting? Evidence from Chinese firms. International Journal of
Managerial and Financial Accounting, 9(1), 1-18.
Fogarty, T. J., Zimmerman, A. B., & Jonas, G. A. (2017). Is Accounting an Applied Discipline?
An Institutional Theory Assessment of Its Labor Market.
Raji, L. M. (2017). Accounting Skill Needs of Business Education Graduates for Teaching
Financial Accounting in Secondary Schools in Bauchi State (Doctoral dissertation).