Careers insights

Performance reviews are a part of being a trainee accountant and are important to ensure you develop into a skilled professional. One of our trainees takes a look at how best to handle the performance review.

A big decision that any aspiring CA faces is deciding where to complete their three year training contract. There are so many options, making it a difficult and sometimes overwhelming decision. Here are some considerations to take into account when making your decision:

The new intake of trainee accountants who started in February 2016 have just completed the first few months of their audit training contract.

Why did the auditor cross the road? Because they looked in the file and that’s what they did last year.  

In the corporate jungle we generally have three kinds of animals. First, there is the kind that fits in well. They come to work, do their work (and a little bit more) and usually end up getting the benefits in the form of promotion opportunities or remuneration increases.

If you’re praying for rain, make sure that you prepare your fields to receive it.  This statement is what I feel got me through the last leg of the CA (SA) gauntlet and to where I am today.  I feel very privileged to be standing here at the finish line with more gained than I could ever have imagined, and certainly not worse for wear.

Once you get to the end of your high school life, one of the most important decisions that you need to make is what to do once school is over. For the lucky few, it is all planned out and they know exactly what they want to do or what they want to become. For the majority however, it is a much more difficult decision.

Training in Public Practice (TIPP) with a medium sized firm as an alternative to the "Big 4" When deciding where you should work and who you should sign your training contract with, a number of factors need to be considered:

For some students the anticipation of an upcoming examination can be agonising, causing worry, fear and sleeplessness the night before. There are numerous ways to prepare for an auditing exam because every student is different, and each one will approach exams in a different way.