Developing a Career in Accounting: A Personal Analysis Report

This report delves into personal and professional development within the accounting field, highlighting its importance in finance. It analyzes potential career paths, specifically focusing on becoming an external auditor after completing a Master's in Accounting and joining a Certified Public Accounting (CPA) firm. The report identifies key strengths and skills necessary for this career path, such as leadership, problem-solving, multitasking, and consistency. It also addresses the challenges that may arise, including work pressure, deadlines, and the potential for inaccuracy, and suggests methods to overcome them. The report concludes that personal and professional development is crucial for individuals to recognize and leverage their strengths and capabilities in the accounting profession. The references include books and journals that support the analysis.

PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT

Table of Contents
 Professional field – accounting
 Analysing my career paths
 Strengths and skills linked to career path
 Challenges and how to overcome them
 Conclusion
 References

INTRODUCTION
 Personal and professional
development is a tool which can
help people to access their skills and
capabilities.

PROFESSIONAL FIELD - ACCOUNTING
• The field of accounting can be considered
as one of the key points of the finance
systems.
• Accounting is basically a system of
recording and maintaining financial
transactions.
• This tool helps in analysing and verifying
the flow of transactions.

ANALYSING MY CAREER PATHS
Complete
Master’s in
accounting
Join a Certified
public
accounting
(CPA) firm
Become an
external auditor

STRENGTHS AND SKILLS LINKED TO
CAREER PATH
Leadership Problem
solving
Multi tasking Consistency

Challenges
work
pressure
Deadlines
Inaccuracy
CHALLENGES AND HOW TO OVERCOME
THEM

CONCLUSION
• Thus, it can be concluded that the personal and professional
development can be useful for a lot of persons.
• It helps people in identifying their strengths and capabilities.
• The career path that is led from accounting field is the job of
auditor.

REFERENCES
 Books and journals
 Di Fabio, C., 2020. The use of Public Interest Arguments in the
European Accounting Field. Accounting in Europe. 17(3). pp.334-366.
 Gati, I. and Kulcsár, V., 2021. Making better career decisions: From
challenges to opportunities. Journal of Vocational Behavior. 126.
p.103545.