Why It May Be Good For A Business To Hire A Chartered Accountant.

| Sunday, May 8, 2011
By Dr Paul Buroughs


There are many reasons why it is best for your business to hire a chartered accountant. Perhaps the most important is linked to the key word, 'professionalism'. Every person who adds up money and 'accounts' for how it is earned, saved and spent is an accountant. Not everyone is a professional accountant.

Chartered accountants institutes started in Scotland about a hundred years ago. They were started to protect professional standards and ethics, and still do that in the countries where they have been instituted. Members have first completed academic degrees, before passing through the rigorous professional requirements of their professional institute. They will also have completed some time working in the lower echelons of a professional firm, learning at the coal face of accounting.

Acceptance is usually dependent on passing board examinations. These are set to high standards for good reasons. Any sensible professions will want maintain high professional standards in order to protect the standards and incomes of people already in the profession.

Acceptance into the Institute of accountants does not guarantee a lifelong passage to wealth and ease. Members must maintain a high degree of service excellence and ethical behaviour. Failure to maintain professional standards may result in disbarment and consequent of loss of face. When you hire an accountant for your business you can expect excellent accounting and that is what every business needs.

In the course of their rigorous training accountants have the prudence principle instilled in them. They are taught to be responsible and prudent when dealing with money, and especially people belonging to other people.

Because they are trained to be prudent accountants are not always successful business people. They may be so careful that they are averse to taking the sort of risks that a genuine entrepreneur may have to take in order to make money.

It is best to hire a chartered accountant for your business because quality professional advice will be useful. It may not be an indispensable ingredient for success, but it will certainly be a good defence against failure.




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