Mark Polino has an article titled The Roots of Microsoft Dynamics GP: Where Have All the Accountants Gone? on MS Dynamics World where he questions the growing number of people with a technology background, rather than an accountancy background, now involved with Microsoft Dynamics GP.
I have to admit to being one of these technology people; I started life as a developer before moving to support and finally into consultancy, implementation and training with some pre-sales thrown in on the side.
Mark is a CPA who now implements GP; I’m implementing GP and am thinking about getting myself a qualification from one of the accountancy bodies here in the UK. As time has passed I have collected a fair amount of knowledge and understanding of accountancy practices and think it would be beneficial if I expanded upon and certified this knowledge.
My current problem is that there are so many certification bodies in the UK that I am having problems choosing which one to go for! Do I go for the Association of Accounting Technicians, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants or the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants or one of the others?
If anyone reading would like to offer suggestions then please comment below.