Accounting

My own experiences of studying accounting at LYIT is that the work you put in gets well rewarded. Graduating with a first class honours degree in October 2014 made my job search a lot easier and helped me secure my position as a trainee chartered accountant with Quinn Meehan & Co. Ltd, Chartered Accountants, Letterkenny. The course provided me with the skills and competencies required to begin training as an accountant. In the final year of my degree myself and 3 classmates won the Irish national final of the CIMA Global Business Challenge and then embarked on a once in a lifetime trip to Mumbai, India to represent Ireland and LYIT in the global competition competing against 25 other countries. Competing against the world’s best future business leaders gave a unique perspective on just how strong the accounting education we received at LYIT was.

Gilroy Gannon Chartered Accountants based in Sligo currently have two Accounting Masters Graduates from LYIT signed up on our Chartered Accountants training programme. The two students joined us last September following an eight week work experience trial which formed part of their Masters programme. We are very satisfied with the progress these students are making, and it is at least the level we would expect from someone with their academic background.

We will certainly continue to link in with LYIT as part of our graduate training programme. Indeed we have recently taken in another Masters student to allow them to complete their requisite work experience and all going well that individual will join our graduate programme in the Autumn.

S MacRory & Co have hired a number of students from the Master of Arts in Accounting programme over the last number of years. We have found these students to be of a very high quality and we are keen to continue to work with LYIT in relation to this programme.

Part of the programme involves the students taking an 8 week placement in a work environment. We have found that the students are well prepared and adjust to the workplace seamlessly. They have a good grounding in accounting, systems, company law and taxation and become productive in the workplace very quickly. We are pleased that we have been able to offer training contracts to all the students that we have taken in on this placement programme.

The Masters programme provides a very useful pathway for student seeking to pursue Professional Qualifications and we would encourage any aspiring Accountants to take this course. We are very happy to recommend the Master of Arts in Accounting programme in the Letterkenny Institute of Technology.