CNED ANGLAIS BTS

Well...the new accountant is telling us about the different courses of study he (or she) took to become an

accountant. When he left school, after his bac, he went to his local IUT to study business studies for 2 years. This

choice was to enable him to get a general idea of the different areas of the subject to help decide what career

he wanted to aim for.

In his second year at college he chose bookkeeping and accountancy as his options and spent 6 weeks in an

accounting firm at the end of that year. During his work placement he helped with some of the simpler everyday

tasks such as client data typing and helping to prepare VAT or income tax returns.

He took and passed an entrance exam to higher business school and after the IUT went to study for a Master’s

at business school on a sandwich course, which meant that he studied part time in college and worked part time

in the company that was sponsoring him, and so was earning a small salary and gaining practical experience.

When working he continued some of the daily accounting tasks he had previously taken on during his work

placement for the IUT but also worked on bigger jobs such as reconciling bank accounts, overseeing bookkeeping

and the payroll and analysing company budgets.

During this time he had to write short reports for college on the different tasks he was working on in his sponsor

company. Then in his final year he chose to specialize in the consolidation of group accounts and wrote his endof-

study report on his experience in this area.

When he graduated, the sponsor company offered him a permanent contract as junior management accountant,

as they had trained him. He now deals with the everyday tasks, like any other accountant, helps with the quarterly

and annual income tax returns, which always represent a heavy workload for accounting firms and as he now

has a certain amount of experience he also supervises students who join the company on work placements or

as part of their sandwich course.

The new accountant is very happy in his work and has no regrets about having had to work so hard as a student

because he says it was well worth it.

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