Personal Statement

The world of finance and investment banking attracts many top graduates. I am no exceptional, personally one of the biggest temptations to this subject is the perplexing range of career opportunities its suit all interests such as; auditing work, management consulting, corporate finance, IT consulting, tax planning, human resources and insolvency.

As a person who likes to be in charge, have responsibility and be accountable, I see myself in the future as potentially running my own business or being in a management role. After studying accountancy for the first time at college, I discovered that it was the language of business, primarily because its sole purpose was to communicate information to decision makers. As I want to be a future business decision maker, I have decided that this is the subject I need to learn, as it will show me how to get valuable information, teach me what it means and also train me in how to use it to make better decisions.

At some stage, all organizations have to present their performance in the form of financial statements. Accounting and finance professionals have to present and interpret such statements to verify and monitor the health of the company behind them. It is this particular aspect that has always appealed to me, I am keen to learn about the financial and accounting decisions that businesses and organizations need to make to be profitable and survive. Another major reason that attracts me to this course is that it is the first step towards possibly running my own business in the future. I have always wanted to be my own boss, and after graduating, and then working in the industry I eventually want to be able to progress to launching my own business in the financial services industry. In my view if you want to make money, to manage money or just to be the master of your own finances, then this