I need your valuable advice please please

Hi Gowda,

A CA is valued by your knowledge and not by your age.You are right,age is not matter. The earlier you complete CA ,the earlier you start earning and gain experience.Pls start studying from now on and give your best,surely you will get the best.

Dear Gowda, there is no reason why you should feel guilty or worried. After all, you are only 25 years old. I can show you live examples of people I have come across who have started their careers as late as 30 or 32 years, and today have become economically more independent and secure than people who have started their career at age 22 or even earlier. Sometimes it happens that a person might chose a career for himself/herself, and a bit later in life realises that what he/she has chosen whas not where his/her interest lies, and then they have gone ahead to start afresh an alternate career. No effort in this life goes waste. If you have put in so many years with a CA learning the profession, rest assured you will be able to use this well in your studies and your career ahead. I can also show you live examples of people who have wasted prime years of their twenties and then became serious and started with a single aim determination of excelling in the field they chose. I have several friends like these two examples who are doing better than I am doing in life, despite the late start. And if a friend or a relative ridicules you on your choice of giving another 3 years to study, then they are not your well wishers, and in life, create meaningful relationships only with people to whom either you are a wellwisher, or who are your wellwishers. A few years down the line when you would have completed your CA and would have either started a good practice or would be in employment, you would reflect back and laugh at the dilema you are in today. Every issue whether it is your guilt today or any self reproach, you would be amused to think that you stressed yourself out for such trivia. So go full stream ahead, start your studies, do part time tutions/coaching or write part time accounts, clear your exams, and then stand tall one day and make everyone who is close to you and your wellwisher, feel proud of you. Go man, go!

I have posted this reply on my blog empowertheloser.com in 'the consultants' blog' page and would be happy to reply to any further queries you have on the blog. You can also send me a mail at careercounseling @ empowertheloser.com or speak to me at 9717332023 if you wish any further help. All the best! After seeing your fierce determination at least I feel proud of you, a complete stranger, and wish I had the same resolve in my prime years which you have displayed here.

Dont worry about everything else. Concentrate on studying well.

"AGE" doesnt matter.

Qualfication is what that matters at the end of the day.

Knowledge Fostering Program

                                     …….. Life-starter for accounting professionals

With special emphasis on India Entry Strategies and New-Age Entrepreneur Support

It's what you learn after you know it all, that counts - Harry S Truman

 About Floraison

Floraison India Strategic Consulting Pvt. Ltd. is a Bangalore-based strategic and business consulting organization. As a company which provides integrated consulting services, we partner our multinational and domestic clients from the stage of inception to assist them in successfully commencing their operations and further hand-hold them to run their company efficiently. Our focus areas are India Entry Strategies and New-Age Entrepreneur Support. We have assisted several multinational companies make their foray into India and have assisted several domestic entrepreneurs set up their business in India, successfully.

About Floraison Services

KFP Mission Statement:

Our mission is to foster knowledge among our associates by leveraging on our continual experience and accumulated expertise in the consulting segment, thereby enhancing their career prospects, enriching their progressive opportunities and enabling their qualitative growth; we aspire to achieve this through a range of innovative practices, setting high standards with exceptional benchmarks.

Need for Floraison’s Knowledge Fostering Program (KFP)

Recent years have witnessed an exponential growth in the Indian economy and simultaneously an increased demand for specialized workforce, especially in the sphere of accounts, payroll and compliances. India is the next big destination for international investments. Market analysts are simultaneously predicting that domestic entrepreneurs are the life line of the country’s economy.

Despite the demand, there seems to be a paucity of ‘work-ready’ professionals, especially to cater to the needs of the multinational or domestic companies operating in India. In such a scenario, a student, a fresher, or a new entrant in the industry, although equipped with the right academic qualifications, lacks the know-how of the ‘essential and pragmatic fundamentals’ that the corporate world today needs. There is a huge gap between industry expectations and contents of the course curriculum of various educational institutions including professional courses. Further, currently there are no courses that enable a candidate to be ‘work-ready’, from an industry point of view, apart from pre-training for BPO’s and Call-centers. Compounding this problem is the fact that most companies today would rather hire ‘work-ready’ professionals rather than hiring raw candidates and putting them through the grind of training them, ‘on-the-job’ or otherwise.

About Floraison’s Knowledge Fostering Program (KFP)

Floraison’s Knowledge Fostering Program (KFP) has been designed keeping in mind the growing need of the corporate world for ‘work-ready’ professionals. Floraison’s KFP has been devised to foster knowledge by focusing on the work related ‘know-hows’ and in turn helping associates nurture their confidence. Further, our courses have been designed with a special convergence on our focus areas: India Entry Strategies and New Age Entrepreneur Support.

Our continuing consulting experience with India entry strategies and New-Age entrepreneur support equips us with the right knowledge and an in-depth understanding of the dynamics of various industries across diverse sectors, from an accounting, payroll and compliance perspective. Our accumulated expertise and experience facilitate us with an accurate insight into the requirements of the intellectual capital of the accounting domain. The end-product is an enriched hands-on course through which relevant knowledge sessions would be imparted in an easy to understand, simple and lucid manner by our professional mentors at our knowledge center, in a class-room environment, with options to make it interactive and participative.

Floraison’s KFP is a knowledge fostering program, designed with a pre-determined, scientific and well structured curriculum covering all the practical and fundamental aspects related to accounting payroll and compliance domains, with a special emphasis on India entry strategies and new age entrepreneur support and is designed to give the associate a sneak peak into the industry expectations and enable them to be ‘work-ready’.

Floraison’s KFP is intended to be a Life-Starter for accounting professionals!

Please read our section on Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s) to know more about Floraison’s Knowledge Fostering Program and how, we, together, can shape your career in the accounting, payroll and compliances domain into a successful and rewarding venture.

KFP Program curriculum

The KFP curriculum has been devised by experts at Floraison who have been in client servicing operations and have a comprehensive understanding of the practical needs of the industry. For the convenience of our associates, the program has been devised into the following modules:

Module – I

Accounts, Audit & Corporate Reporting

Module – II

Compliances, Compensation & Benefits

Associates have the option of enrolling for the full course* comprising both the above modules or choosing either of the modules, as per their needs. The contents of the modules are subject to changes, as suitable.

To know more about our approach, course schedule, enrolment, and other details, please read our section on FAQ’s or contact our co-ordinators.

* recommended

KFP Takeaways

• The Consultant’s touch: The curriculum of this Program has been designed keeping in mind Floraison’s accumulated expertise and experience in the management consultancy domain. In KFP, we have incorporated this consultant’s approach, which would permit the associates to gain a perspective and sneak peek into the corporate world. You will gain immensely from this approach and learn to be a good consultant yourself.

• Specific Focus on India Entry Strategies and New Age Entrepreneur Support: Floraison’s KFP has been designed with a special focus on multinational and domestic entities doing business in India. These two segments of entities form the major chunk of India’s economy and would probably offer you the best opportunities for a rewarding career.

• Membership Program:  Each associate participating in Floraison’s KFP would be given individual ID and password to access Floraison’s Knowledge portal, for a small annual subscripttion fee. This way, our association and your gains from this enrolment would be a continuing one. Floraison is committed to partnering with you during and after your stint with our KFP.

• Abridged content of the Program: Brief contents of the course material, imparted during the course of Floraison’s KFP would be given to each associate, which would act as a guide on fundamentals one can always count on.

• Inflo – knowledge fostering series: ‘Inflo’ is an internal document that Floraison is immensely proud of. Inflo focuses on imparting the knowledge and experience Floraison and its team have gained on various domains- accounting being one of the most important areas. In line with Floraison’s motto of ‘accelerating growth’, one of the Program’s key take-away would be a copy of Inflo pertaining to the accounting domain and restricted online access to our well researched and developed ‘Inflo’ series.

• Help-line: Further, associates can “call in” and speak to our experts and discuss matters of 'knowledge' relevant to the subject matter of KFP that they need more clarity on during and after their stint with the KFP.

*Conditions Apply

For more details: Contact – Mukinthan-7204864311
Floraison India Strategic Consulting Pvt. Ltd.,
#185/7, 2nd Floor, "Chandra Plaza",
8th F Main, 3rd Block,
Jayanagar, Bangalore 560011.
P: +91 80 2653 8257/58/59.
Email: kfp @ floraison.in / mukinthan.r @ floraison.in
Website: www.floraison.in/KFP -

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Fee details & program details:

Program: Floraison’s Knowledge Fostering Program

Fees: Rs.7000/- + Tax (Rs.7721/- including tax) – Both Modules

Payment Mode: Demand Draft / Cheque (in favor of - FLORAISON INDIA STRATEGIC CONSULTING PVT LTD)

Batch Timing: Morning – 07:00AM to 11:00AM (Monday to Friday)

Duration: 22days

Seats Available: 30 Per Batch.

Batch Starting Date: 01-DEC-2011

Venue: #185/7, 2nd Floor, "Chandra Plaza", 8th F Main, 3rd Block, Jayanagar, Bangalore 560011.

Registrations’ open between 9.30AM to 6.30PM at Floraison Till November 19^th 2011

Registration Closing Date: 19-NOVEMBER-2011 at 6.30PM.