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General Business Degree – Career Paths

The popularity of general business (or commerce) degrees when applying for the CAO is a logical choice when students aren’t entirely sure of what area of business interests them. The below infographic (via infographicsonly.com) gives a great overview of the various career paths available to students coming through a general business degree. For a full […]

Non Business Graduates

Introduction The typical presumption by students is that milkround positions are only for business and accounting graduates. While the majority of the graduate trainees will have business and accounting degree backgrounds this certainly does not exclude any student with other degree backgrounds from applying (and being successful) in the milkround process. All of the firms […]

Summer Internships

Introduction There is no doubt that entering the milkround process with little or no experience of what is involved in professional accountancy on a day to day basis make the decisions and process itself much harder on students. For this reason, I regularly compare the milkround to the leaving cert – you have some idea […]

Welcome to Accounting Milkman!

Welcome to Accounting Milkman (“AM”) and my first, of what I hope will be many, posts! Hopefully you have had a chance to look around the site and get a feel for what AM is all about. If not, I will outline very briefly below what I hope AM can achieve.   Accounting Milkman is […]