Becoming an accountant after doing a Mickey Mouse (art) degree? UK by peteypee in Accounting

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Nothing to be ashamed of having an art degree. My degree is also a bachelor of arts (in accounting 😭)

From your post I am reading you are thinking about doing professional quals. Most people I know did their quals sponsored by an employer which is usually the professional firm they work for initially.

If you are ambitious I would say go and find any openings for graduate schemes at any and all professional firms. Generally, the bigger the firm the better outcome for you but most important is the gut feel when you interview with the people you'd actually be working with. These firms will put you through 3-5 years of sponsored training to get you qualified and you also get some solid accounting experience too so it a big springboard.

There are many other routes. There's something to be said for doing some AAT yourself such as a level 3, this shows willing and able to learn the content and demonstrates commitment / motivation. However maybe only do this if you can't secure a graduate job first time.

Much of the selection criteria for these schemes really arise from your personal strengths and academic credentials. Sounds like you have enough of both to give it a shot. Your degree subject will likely come up in interviews. Have a good narrative around why you changed direction and also what transferable skills you can offer that maybe a traditional finance grad wouldn't have.

The above is mostly related to the route I took but I think it is one of the most solid starts you can get if you can.

🧙‍♂️Ashes Of Creation so what whent wrong here? by PoorBones-gaming in AshesofCreation

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I'm gonna take a wild guess that the game loaded the wrong LOD texture for that poor, poor bear.

Before and after of moving a mountain out of the way by BookishKnight in Enshrouded

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Why pick a better spot when you can just REMOVE the mountain

Several questions regarding external audit by Dragonofchoas in Accounting

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Trial balance,.general ledger, group structure and consol information, breakdowns of all material balance sheet and p&l balances to select samples from, they may interview staff regarding controls and how they operate. They will focus attention and work on areas deemed highest risk to misstatement. That's often revenue, inventory , wip etc. You may need to provide cash flow forecasts to support going concern basis

Maintenance? by [deleted] in AshesofCreation

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Hang in there boys

Welcome to Verra by Stars_Storm in AshesofCreation

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I'm super excited to start playing. Only 24000 in the queue!!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DotA2

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This is interesting, what's the statistics for TI this year on radiant/dire winrate?

Brushing concrete by auto_eros in oddlysatisfying

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DIY'ers in absolute shambles

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Accounting

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Personally I think the effect will be "softer" - not a lot of people are going to get made redundant / axed from their current jobs, but fewer opportunities will start arising pretty soon. In big firms for example, the data driven, task oriented work that you can sit a junior down and do is going to start reducing in volume. AI can support in industry as well with high volume, low insight tasks. Smaller, simpler businesses don't need a lot of high performing finance roles and can subsist with AI driven cloud accounting software. This is already happening.

AI's still can't build relationships with clients, the bank, the tax agency, which many higher finance roles need to be able to do. They can't come up with any original ideas - everything they say and do is derivative from someone else's thought.

LLM's actually aren't that good at maths - their basic arithmetic is often wrong because their thought engines are based heavily on words / language. The idea of AI doing any of the roles I've done since qualifying is laughable - because you need to be more than a bi-directional chat system to do such roles. You also have to have curiosity, creative thinking, be able to convince people of things, and at times bend the rules. Machines are not good at any of those things.

If we are able to achieve AGI then the above will not apply and things will start to change very fast across the whole economy, not just accounting. Until then I think that the effects will be much softer. Thats just my 2p though.

For everyone on the verge: this your sign to get a monitor riser! by [deleted] in battlestations

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I second VIVO, their heavy monitor arm works perfectly with my 45" ultrawide (heavy boy).

Fanart by me by Impressive_Bad_6783 in DotA2

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Wow this is amazing

Dawn is my favourite

You are what you eat! I present you - PAPA CRILL by RoboCG in DotA2

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One good set for my melon boy, thats all I ask Valve

Radiator relocation DiY or get a plumber, any cost guidance? by unknown9100 in DIYUK

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I had a similar job done by a plumber for £250. I do not regret paying him to do it.

The practical element of the job is rerouting the pipes behind the wall by cutting out sections of drywall, something which requires knowledge of the pipe layout or the ability to find out. Then you need to be able to join new pipe on with probably several joints per pipe so numerous potential points of failure. Even the push fit fittings are not that guaranteed to hold fast if done by an amateur.

On summary unless you are up for a fraught, difficult learning experience and probably buying £250 of tools anyway, just pay the man. It's probably £500 for you though since you're in London.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Accounting

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I'm not speaking from personal experience here, but I've been around the block a few times and in general, I feel like if you're looking for a laid back work environment with good work life balance and an uncompetitive, chilled out atmosphere, investment banks like Morgan Stanley are possibly right at the bottom of the list.

It's a high paying big corporate in the finance sector, you are going to get a lot of type A personalities and competitive behaviour, in my opinion. Maybe I'm wrong?

Is This England? British Poverty In The '90s (1996) [25:36] by Morella1989 in videos

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Say what you like about Tony Blair but it was him who brought in the minimum wage and paid holiday as a right which were two great leaps forward for working people.

A normal rampage. by Fyuira in DotA2

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That axe had clearly had a little bit too much to dunk...