Career options in
COMMERCE
Chartered Accountant
This course is offered by the ICAI (Institute of Chartered Accountants Of India). After 12th grade, students can pursue CA a 5-year course with a designated syllabus & certificate.
Career options – text auditing, internal auditor, corporate finance, investment banking and private practice as a consultant to multiple firms.
Company Secretary
This course is offered by the ICSE Institute of Company Secretaries of India. The CS manages the administration of the company. Ensuring regulatory and statutory requirements and ensuring the company's pronouncement of the board of directors were implemented. It is a minimum of a one-year course.
Career options – compliance officer, chief advisor to the board of directors of a company, legal advisor, public and private sector jobs.
Financial management
This field focuses on finance and financial management, budgeting, capital structuring, and capital management. Various certifications available are CFP (certified financial planner), CFA (chartered financial analyst), FRM (financial risk manager), and CPA (Certified Public Accountant).
Career options – payroll associate, financial officer, financial advisor, financial analyst, investment analyst, accountant, financial auditor.
Investment Banking
To become an investment banker, CFA certification is required after of bachelor's degree. Investment banker deals with financial operations, and market investments. MBA in finance also is a popular course.
Career options - investment banker, sales and trading, banker, Financial markets.
Financial analyst
Bachelor's in business administration or master's in finance will critical thinking skills helps make a career as a financial analyst.
Career options – insurance companies, security firms, mutual fund companies.
Banking
It is a vast field that operates in loans, investments, wealth management, financial services, currency exchange and deposits. With a bachelor's or a master's degree in finance, one can enter this field.
Career options – auditor, banker, financial analyst, loan officer, investment banker, budget analyst and broker.
Cost Accounting
It is a part of a managerial study of accounting focusing on the various cost data available in the company. It is a part of the course covered in the bachelor's and master's degrees.
Career options – accountant, financial director, chief auditor, chief accountant.
Economics
It is a three-year course that involves a study of concepts, case studies and analytics of economics. Be sent backbone of every industry, company and field. Specialisation in economics opens a lot of doors In various fields in India and overseas.
Career options – strategist, economist, research analyst, risk management analyst.
Statistics
It is a three-year course that involves a study of concepts, case studies and analytics of economics. Be sent backbone of every industry, company and field. Specialisation in economics opens a lot of doors In various fields in India and overseas.
Career options – statistician, professor, business analyst, data analyst, risk analyst and mathematician.
Acturial Science
Dealing with matters of uncertainty, professionals in this discipline are trained to solve risks in insurance and other major risks involved in the industry. It requires a rigorous study of mathematics.
Career options – investment consultant, life and health insurance, pension funds, Government jobs as a finance consultant.
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