I have worked as an accountant in a property company for two years and want to leave my job and go to an accounting firm. Does work experience help?

Accounting and accounting firm are two concepts. Accounting is more about accounting and accounting treatment. For example, an enterprise needs someone to record its business and calculate its assets and liabilities, income and expenses, costs and profits. This role is accounting. The threshold of accounting practice is very low, and now you don't need an accounting certificate. Self-study of basic knowledge is similar to having an old accountant in a unit for several years. Although the threshold is low, the upper limit of the accounting industry is very high. In addition to the basic bookkeeping function, it also involves more complex financial management fields, that is, how to manage the unit's money to maximize benefits, such as financing investment and financing decision-making, and the financial management knowledge used by accountants in their daily work generally needs to be at an intermediate level, from basic bookkeepers to senior financial personnel. More advanced accountants enter the decision-making level of the company, in fact, considering the strategic direction and macro-management coordination of the enterprise based on professional knowledge.

The most basic work of an accounting firm is auditing, and it also has the functions of consulting and tax planning. Ordinary accounting practitioners want to work in accounting firms, in addition to accounting and financial management knowledge, they also need audit and legal knowledge, and specific to the audit work of a certain industry, they also need professional knowledge of this industry. Many people say that auditing is higher than accounting, but I don't think so. In fact, the audit work is to examine the accounting and internal management of a unit from another angle, find problems and loopholes, and make suggestions.

Back to your question. If you want to develop into the accounting field, you basically have to pass the intermediate accountant, which is the foundation. At the same time, you can also pass the intermediate economist and auditor exams, which is the qualification threshold for entering the accounting field. If you want to work in an accounting firm and want to develop, you have to take the CPA exam. There will be six exams in accounting, auditing, financial management, economic law, tax law and strategic management, each of which is quite difficult. For interdisciplinary students, great determination and perseverance are needed. For students who already have jobs and families, they need to pay more hardships and the support of the whole family. Those extremely smart people around you will finish the exam in three or four years.

In addition, the work intensity of accounting firms is very strong, and business trips are commonplace. Married students can't take care of them at home.

But if you can pass this exam, you will really enter the audit door, so it will be more comfortable to work in the firm for a few years and then switch to internal audit or internal control.

In addition, you can finish the intermediate accountant when you take the accounting exam and the auditor when you take the audit exam. If you are good at English, you will take the acca, and the certificates in the field of basic auditing are all alive.

In short, the accounting threshold is low and the upper limit is high. It is easy to enter the business, but difficult to do well. Accounting firms need to pass the exam instructions in order to achieve further development. Of course, if you just want to muddle along, then these questions are not involved.