MBA for Accountants

MBA_Grad_2009
Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:41:21 +0000

Since you’re in Canada, taccount, your experience may be different from Americans. In the US of course, the CPA license is the thing to have, with even an MS in Accounting far behind in importance. My wife’s family is from Hong Kong, and the CPA license is so prized that companies have sent accountants to work and study in the US for a time so they can earn the CPA license in a state and then come back to Hong Kong (which also has a license they call the CPA).

In Canada, you could become a Certified Chartered Accountant, which is very similar to the American CPA license. You can look here for details on that:

[ACCA - the global body for professional accountants](http://www.accaglobal.com/)

The MBA degree is more commonly used by managers; its principal value to accountants is in cost accounting and in coordinating projects between executives and accountants. A Chief Accounting Officer would find an MBA helpful, for instance. CMAs would also find the MBA a good tool for their career, given the nature of their work.