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It's sort of in the middle of the road.  It's definitely a professional field but at the same time a certification is only like an entrance ticket, and you need so much more to pick the plum, unlike other upper professional jobs like MD or JD where a title is pretty much all you need.

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Another problem is dilution.  You have so many competing professional institutions and at the end the profession just gets watered down.  The profession would be a lot more respectable if CA (or CPA) is the only professional title for an accountant.

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I keep hearing about CGA, CMA , CA. So confusing. I wonder why there are three accounting titles in Canada.

From what I heard, CMA is the best right since they are doing managerial accounting?
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mimilim 發表於 2009/12/23 01:04

Your friend is retarded.

Which again goes back to my original comment.  If you filter out the bottom 2/3 of the "accountants", then the profession can probably be way up there.

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I keep hearing about CGA, CMA , CA. So confusing. I wonder why there are three accounting titles in Canada.

From what I heard, CMA is the best right since they are doing managerial accounting?
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mimilim 發表於 2009/12/23 01:04

And your "manager" friend's company's CFO is most likely a CA.

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It's very easy to tell whether a designation is more prestigious or not.  You just look at its members, and the time/intelligence/effort it takes to obtain the designation.

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If you want good pay, you don't want to become an accountant

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The fact is, many "rich" people I know, are accountant background.
Catpiano 發表於 2009/12/23 10:42

Typical logical fallacy

All rich people have accounting background
But not all accountants are rich

you don't need to be an accountant to have an accounting background
see how many rich people started off as an accountant

medical doctors probably all know accounting
because they need to deal with their own finances
but they don't need an accounting diploma