COMBINING LAW DEGREE PROGRAMME WITH ACCOUNTING PROFESSIONAL EXAMINATION
Good afternoon Sir,
I must definitely commend your work on the advice you kept giving our youths to be a successful one in our chosen career.
Sir my main point is I am a student of Law in the first year but I wish to have ICAN with my LL.B at the end of the day. Although I know this will not be easy but I’m prepared for the task. I am willing to
pay the price and still maintain a good grade in my Law program.
Sir I will like to ask of how to come about the processes. I have made research and I was told I would start from ATS. Please Sir advice me.
John
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Dear John,
If you can combine it, I don’t think there is anything wrong in combining Law with writing ICAN exams.
I can see the fire in you and I will advise you go ahead, in as much as your Law degree, which you cannot postpone (professionals exams can be done anytime) will not be jeopardized.
Yes, you will start with ATS. I think altogether, you will be writing 5 or 6 stages before you qualify as a CA, and that can be achieved within 3 years.
Law and accounting actually converge, especially in taxation. In fact there is a subject as Business Law in ICAN exams.
With a Law degree and ICAN certificate, you have option of pursuing a career in Law or Accounting. I have friends, like Mayowa Akinsola, who are Chartered Accountants and still pursuing (or pursued) Law degree. I know a chartered accountant with specialization in taxation with many years experience in one of the top IOCs who later went to enroll for a Law programme, finished and got job with a Law firm, plus years of experience as a tax professional, he is now a partner in a leading firm.
So endorse your plan.
All the best.
Jarus
Jarus, what are (if any) other specializations in Accounting that can intersect with Law apart from Taxation?
On day to day level, taxation is where law meets accounting, as far as I know. However, like any other endeavor, law will definitely come in in many other areas, but not on day to day basis. For example, as an accountant irrespective of specialization you need to be familiar with relevant areas of the Companies and Allied Matters Act – the Act that guides operations of companies in Nigeria. But these are not specific specializations within accounting.
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