At the company I work for they pay renewal fees every year to be accredited by the likes of CHAS, Achilles etc which shows they have strong health and saftey policies in place etc and so they are approved by bigger companies.
Other than the proffesional bodies that you become a member of through completing the courses, what other things can you do to make you more 'approved'?
There is one, which I forget the name of now, you pay £50 a month to be a member and get to call yourself an accountant, as it is designed to represent people who have a wide knowledge and have been doing the job for a long time but haven't necessarily taken the formal exam route to get there. If only I could remember what they were called....!
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Jenny
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well, for my work in banking I have to be credit checked and criminal record / security checked for everyposition that I take up. The agencies always do that for me so no idea who you need to apply to directly.
Top of my CV I normally have :
British Citizen with full rights to work within European Community Fully credit checked for work in finance Fully security checked for work in Banking Full clean driving licence
Those and professional bodies aside I don't think that there's any great demand for any additional approvals although people like the BCS are always trying to tell me that I need a European Computer driving licence (ECDL)! Yer right. They've just made that up so that they can charge a fee.
Actually, thinking about that, you now need to pay an approval fee to talk to me. Please send a cheque, postal order to the following address... lol.
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Shaun
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ISO (International Oragnisation for Standards) For example ISO14001, which is an environmental standard that if you are accredited for, show other businesses (world wide) that you have procedures and policies in place relating to your companies controls over it's impact on the environment.
In most cases you do not need to do a course (although they are usually available). You do need to demonstrate that you have policies, procedures and systems in place to ensure you adhere to the guidelines that get you accredited and there is usually some kind of audit.
They are a bit like the professional standards that you have abide by if you are a member of a bookkeeping or accounting body
These are rough descriptions.
HTH Bill
Beat me by a minute Shaun
-- Edited by Wella on Thursday 17th of March 2011 02:37:21 PM
isn't that the IFA.... Institute of financial accountants that is rather than independant fincial adviser... So many organisations so few three letter accronyms.
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Shaun
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You can join the IFA through prior learning, but that isn't who I was thinking of, I'm sure it's got a C in it somewhere. It's going to bug me now until I can find it...
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Jenny
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Now that CIMA has announced that they are leave the CCAB because "Robin Vaughan, executive director, governance and professional standards, at CIMA, said: CIMAs agenda is to develop and support the role of financially qualified business leaders who work in organisations around the world. Therefore the CCAB, with its emphasis on audit, has diminishing relevance for the institute"
Does this mean that CIMA members will be considered in the same way as the other non-CCAB bodies? Or perhaps the stranglehold the CCAB bodies has with Agencies/Employers will finally end? (Or as one accountant, I know put in an e-mail stating she only considered a Qualified Accountant as someone whose professional body is one of the CCAB bodies - how can an Accountant be considered qualified one minute, and not the next, simply because they no longer belong to a particular organisation - or is this all contradictory.)
