Finance Qualifications!

[wiggal]

Hey all!

I'm 21 years old and currently work in accounts at the head office of a big company. I dont have any qualifications in accounts or finance.

My partner is an IT contractor and also one of 3 directors of a company they have created for IT infrastructure hosting disaster recovery. the company is doing well and picking up business and contracts well. My partner has said that at the rate they are going, within a year he will be able to leave contracting and work full time for the company (he is technical director) and be on a full time wage. Along with this, he has said that he feels that I would be the perfect person to come and work and run the finances for the company.

However, I do not have any qualifications, and I'm looking to find the best way to get them! They will obviously be needed if I am to be in any position to deal with the accounts of a company!

I dont want to go through my current work as they are pretty strict and I will then be tied to them for a few years afer completing my course.

Just looking for any advice really on the best way to go about getting qualifcations, like college courses or part time courses that will start me off!

Many thanks!

Wiggal :)

[Hymie]

You do not need any further qualifications for this position � you are already the best qualified person, as the partner of one of the directors.

[Skyline D]

You don't NEED any qualifications to do the job. Unless you feel you want to get them for your own knowledge base don't bother. If you do feel you need to know more then do as little or as much as you wish. Night classes, college courses, etc, though anything especially formal is probably going to need co-operation from your present employers.

The new firm will certainly have professional accountants who will be able to help with anything overly technical on the financial site over and above normal book-keeping and debt collection.

Reading between the lines here (perhaps wrongly) it looks like he thinks you'd be perfect but perhaps the other directors need some convincing and you want to show some degree of financial competence? It can sometimes be an awkward situation where three unrelated people set up in business and the finances are run by the wife / partner of one of them.