Where a accountant can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a accountant already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Accountants review and analyse financial statements, budgets, financial reports, and business plans in order to check for irregularities resulting from error or fraud, and provide their clients with financial advice in matters such as financial forecasting and risk analysis. They may audit financial data, resolve insolvency cases, prepare tax returns and provide other tax-related advice in reference to current legislation.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 72%
- Destinations
- 12each with a full record
- Within reach
- 10difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 57required or supplementary
Table 1 · Within reach
- bookkeeper 72% covered · difficulty 31.2
- financial controller 68% covered · difficulty 34.1
- accounting assistant 60% covered · difficulty 44.1
- accounting manager 58% covered · difficulty 52.4
- accounting analyst 57% covered · difficulty 46.3
- tax clerk 50% covered · difficulty 47.4
- financial fraud examiner 48% covered · difficulty 48.5
- post-production supervisor 44% covered · difficulty 53.5
- cost analyst 44% covered · difficulty 54.3
- tax inspector 40% covered · difficulty 54.7
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
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accountant is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a accountant already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.