IT IS INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTANTS DAY. HERE IS MY ACCOUNTING STORY- Be inspired.

Today marks another day to remember the genesis of our profession “The Accountant” Everyone has their story on how they ended up here and others are still on this journey to attain the CPA tittle.

I remember that time after finishing my A level exams and filling in the PUJAB forms for the preferable courses that I wanted to do. I had always found mathematics as an easy subject and after several thoughts, I knew this would make a way for me into the Accounting profession. I immediately filled in BCOM as my first option knowing that I would specialise in Accounting.

At that same time, I made a consultation with one of my teachers who discouraged me from pursuing that course on grounds that they had their friend who had done the same course but hadn’t found a job for over 5 years.

Honestly, I was a bit discouraged but that didn’t make me give up. I enrolled for the BCOM course, gave it my best ,earned my self a first class, got my first job before I could even graduate and immediately used my first salary to enrol for the CPA course. The rest is history!

I was glad to finish the 2years of my CPA Journey, everyone who has been on this journey will agree with me that it takes effort and determination to finish this course. Several of my students keep asking me if CPA is hard to pass and my response is simple… The course is passable and wait a moment, if it was easy, everyone would be a CPA and it would lose meaning pursuing it. The fact that it is tough, adds more value to it and respect to all those that hold the “CPA Tittle” Above all it is passable and it gets to be easy if you do a great preparation for the exam and the good news is that your will be part of the lucky few if you persist to finish it.

Otherwise I have a small message for those still on this journey to becoming CPAs.

It doesn’t matter what you have heard about others saying you can’t pass that CPA course, CPA isn’t international, maybe you do ACCA, it doesn’t matter if others say you will not benefit from the CPA course, I hear the market for Accountants is already circulated. Ask them why nearly every day there more than one accountant position in the adverts?

What I want to tell you is that you will one time live your dream of becoming a certified public accountant and it doesn’t matter how many times you have failed a given paper. Just re strategize and go for it again.

Don’t give up along the way. Keep up strategizing on how you can pass your papers in the next sitting.

There is a lot you will add to your career once you become a CPA. I have been able to grow fast in my career because of his CPA qualification. Every level I finished, at least opened a door for me and once I completed the course, it took me just one year to attain a finance managerial position in an international organisation in just my mid-20s.

Your story might be different but what I believe for is that at one point in time, you will be proud and thank yourself for persisting and finishing your CPA course.

Like Abraham Lincoln puts it “I will prepare and someday my chance will come”, you too just prepare, one time the jobs will open up, promotions will show up and who knows you will run one of the successful and accounting and Audit firms in the future all because of CPA.

All the best to you and see you at the TOP.

Happy International Accountants Day

Samuel Ibanda is a CPA Tutor with Achievers Professional Trainers.

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