In today’s post we’ll talk about how to tailor your CV for an accounting role. If you’re already an African Accounting Academy graduate, you’ll have taken our lesson on how to draft a professional CV. If you’re a current student, you’ll soon get to that lesson! So, how should you tailor your CV when you […]
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This week, we chatted with current Haystack student Rachel, to learn more about her career aspirations, why she joined the African Accounting Academy and her life outside of work! Haystack: Which university are you attending and what is your major? Rachel: My degree is from the Southern New Hampshire University, which I attended through the
Searching for a job is exhausting. It takes constant time and effort. How can you make sure the time and effort you expend is effective? Be organized Keep a list of the positions you’ve applied for, including details like: title, company, and the date applied. This will ensure you don’t apply for the same position
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You identify a job you’re interested in. You review the job description and you think you’re the perfect fit. You prepare a cover letter and update your CV and apply for the position. You get a call back from the recruiter or company and they ask you to come in for an interview. You ace
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Today we introduce you to Cedric. Cedric is about halfway through the African Accounting Academy course, and making great progress as we speak! This week, we talked to Cedric to learn more about his career aspirations and why he joined the African Accounting Academy. Haystack: Which university are you attending and what is your major?
In this post, we’ll talk about every business owner’s favourite account – revenues! All jokes aside, revenues are an extremely important line on your statement of profit or loss and are often first to be examined by readers of the financial statements. For that reason, it is extremely important revenues are recognized appropriately and in
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Over the next few weeks we’ll be posting a series of blogs on some more complex areas of accounting that you may be exposed to. Today, we’ll talk about common accruals and how you post them. Our students are very family with accruals, but for those non-students reading this post, remember, accrued liabilities are expenses
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LinkedIn is the largest professional network in the world, with over 610 million users in more than 200 countries. In many countries, nearly 50% of the population has a presence on LinkedIn. In South Africa, more than 6 million people use LinkedIn, which is about 12% of the population. In Kenya, this number is much
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Today we introduce you to Confiance. Confiance was one of the first students to join the new African Accounting Academy program and has now graduated! He scored 86% on our final assessment and we are very proud of him! This week, we chatted with him to learn more about his career aspirations and why he
Here in Rwanda the deadline for submitting and paying taxes for most companies is 31 March. For large companies, along with their tax filings, they must also submit their audited financial statements. This makes the first quarter of the year a very busy time for all accountants, whether you’re a bookkeeper, internal accountant, consultant, or
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