Graduates will be able to perform the following professional roles and functions in the areas of employment here indicated:
1) Chartered accountant
(after completion of apprenticeship and success in the professional examination for registration in the professional association)
Functions
The Chartered Accountant:
- providing advice, representation and tax consultancy;
- providing business consultancy for firms;
- taking on an official role in insolvency proceedings;
- carrying out audits in commercial businesses and other public and private organisations;
- possibly working at a national and international level.
Career opportunities:
- Professional practice
- Public organisations
- Private firms
2) Administrative manager
Functions
The Administrative manager:
- managing the administrative department, handling the drafting of financial statements, relations with banks and other external contacts, updating the VAT registers.
- handling invoices of goods, evaluating company budgets, maintaining contacts with suppliers, responsible for tax returns and the general and industrial accounting, relations with the tax office and reporting.
- managing accounting administration, coordinating personnel within the department and handling relations with the banks.
- Coordinating the administration personnel and liaising between these staff and general management
- handling all the firms general accounting, drafting financial statements with the assistance of the department personnel, responsible for the keeping of accounts, relations with banks and the invoicing and preparation of the budget, managing accounting and accounting staff.
- In small and medium-sized firms, performing functions similar to those of the accounts manager and the adminstrative manager. On average the level of training will be higher than that of the head of accounts, and the job differs as the adminstrative manager may be responsible for coordination.
Career opportunities:
- Public organisations
- Private firms
- As quality consultant to organisations and firms.
3) Auditor (Financial statement control and certification)
Functions
The Auditor:
- Performing, as external auditor, the legal correctness of accounts and accounting documents, providing technical and legal advice, from both a civil and penal point of view; drawing up auditing reports for accounts and periodic and end-of-year financial statements;
- looking after the accounts and financial results;
- looking after review and organisation of accounting procedures and systems, giving tax advice;
- providing legal advice and assistance as regards business and financial consultancy for the creation of investment and financing plans.
Career opportunities:
- Public organisations
- Private firms (as financial director)
- As external consultant to public organisations and private firms.
4) Corporate Manager/Director
Functions
The Corporate Manager/Director:
- assisting corporate management in market analysis, with advanced qualitative and quantitative tools, and in strategic planning with advanced business planning methods and competition analysis.
- assisting corporate management in real and financial investments, handling relations with external financing sources
- handling corporate internationalisation, and identifying the most efficient modes of organisation.
- handling technological changes and corporate organisation.
- In the financial and administrative area, managing and coordinates internal administration or the fianacial operations of the firm or organisation, on the basis of directives from general management and the board members, working together with managers from others areas or departments.
Career opportunities:
- Small and medium-sized firms
- Small and medium-sized private firms (as financial director)
