Professional Designations in Finance

In my last post, I compared the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designations.

A bit of an apples and oranges comparison.

This post will briefly discuss comparable financial designations. (more…)

Robert Half 2011 Employment Survey

Today I watched a webinar courtesy of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Entitled “2011 Accounting and Finance Hiring and Compensation Outlook“, it was presented by Robert Half Finance and Accounting, a financial recruitment company.

Although I have no affiliation with Robert Half, I find that they do an excellent job of surveying employment trends and factors and I greatly appreciate their efforts.

The presentation reviews accounting, banking, and finance employment outlooks in Canada.

Here are a few interesting points made and some thoughts of my own.  (more…)

Improved M&A Job Opportunities?

An interesting point from The Conglomerate on the potential for increased activity in mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

It might give some hope to law, finance, and accounting students reading this post.

A few very brief comments from my side: (more…)

An interesting discussion at The Conglomerate as to the readiness of law school graduates for the business world.

However this issue applies equally to graduates in many other fields. Medicine, dentistry, engineering, information technology; the list is extremely long. (more…)

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