Boring! That’s what a lot of people think about accountancy. If you reckon it’s all about maths, short back and sides haircuts and City gent pinstripe suits then you’re wrong. This booklet is about lively young people in Guernsey who have found that accountancy is an exciting and challenging career with massive potential. It certainly is not a profession for slow-movers. Accountancy reflects whatever is happening in the economy today.

Accountancy can be very rewarding providing a challenging and exciting career, as well as giving you a good income. Qualified accountants are people from many different backgrounds who are bright, ambitious and interested in business. At the start you’ll be studying and working alongside people of a similar age as part of a team. Once qualified there is a very wide scope of activities and careers you can pursue.

The Channel Islands have the highest proportion of trainee and qualified accountants per capita in the British Isles.