Confession of a newly appointed Charted Accountant

First of all, I just would like to say...


Woooohooooooo.................!

I've made it!
I've made it!

Alhamdulillah


However, the process of obtaining the title was not an easy one. It was really TOUGH... I have invested a lot of time, money and tears to get this far.

Unlike any other accounting bodies, CIMA requires their passed finalist to actually submit a career resume and attend an optional face-to-face assessment before they can be selected as an associate member. Thus, I had to fork out GBP113 (equivalent to almost RM800) and come up with a 15 pages of career profile write-up before I was able to attend the assessement this morning.

Luckily I have a very supportive and loving boyfriend who had pushed and encouraged me to apply for the assessment. I didn't want to pay out so much just for an hour assessment and to be told that I was not qualified to become a member.... RUGI! However, I gave in and started to build up hope that maybe there is a chance...

So I began to bullshit my way to come up with a 15 pages write-up. It was horrible I tell you... as I was not really focusing on sentence structures and grammar. I was just trying to compile everything that I had done throughout my service with my previous companies. Thank God Mr Judge offered to edit the write-up for me. And that was how we ended up spending our nights @ Starbucks for the last few days, with me bullshitting my way through the pages and him trying to make my bullshits sound more presentable.

This morning, as I walked through the door of the CIMA office, I sensed that it was not going to be a smooth sailing day for me. First, I was asked to amend by career summary as I had over-counted the number of time spent for few of my attachments with my previous employers. I had double counted the time when I had held 2 work portfolios at once. Thus, I had to re-do the entire thing, canceling off the one that I had nicely prepared (siap color printed lagi OK).

During my assessment, the assessor gave me the impression that I was not going to make it this time around due to the fact that most of my experience had focused on financial accounting areas instead of management accounting. I had a tough time trying to convince him that I was a qualified candidate and I should be admitted as a member. I was really disappointed when he asked me to be prepared for a second assessor to bombard me with more questions as he was not confident that I should be admitted as a member. I left the interview room with tears in my eyes.... I really don't want to go through the whole process again!

When they called out my name 15 minutes later, I was ready to receive the bad news, as the mat salleh's face didn't look quite happy when he called out my name. However, imagine my surprise when he said, "I have some good news for you.. You've made it through and you are now an ACMA!". I really wanted to cry there and then, but I've managed to get a hold of myself and later cried in the car on my way back home.



So, I've made it here... What now?




binx: *jumping with joy*