Careers In Commerce

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Careers In Commerce
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• Gone are the days when career choices were
  limited to Science, Engineering and Medicine.
  Graduates of today have a plethora of options to
  choose from. Apart from the conservative
  engineering, medicine and accountant, they can
  now look up to a vast majority of diverse fields
  to make a mark in.
• Societal pressure ruins your life by choosing
  a career which will never give you the
  satisfaction of achieving a milestone. Every day
  has to be a thrilling experience and for that to
  happen you must have the freedom to choose
  something you like is very important. How much
  will you earn? There is ample of money in the
  world and your confidence mixed with your ability
  is a deadly combination which is sure to make you
  the next Mark Zuckerberg in the world.

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• So, if Commerce is your calling doesnt buck
  under the societal pressure and the traditions,
  get a grip, look out for your passion and do
  something which beckons you. Commerce is
  definitely more than B.com and this is what you
  need to learn. Take some short term courses and
  scale up your knowledge quotient in courses like
•  Financial Analyst Certification Course,
  Certification Course in Investment Banking and
  Finance for non-finance professionals

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 Top 10 Inviting Careers in Commerce

•  1 - Banking
• Amazingly fat pay cheques, job security, and high
  social acceptance often drive the conventional
  choice but jobs are secured and with the spate of
  new local/national/foreign banks job market is
  booming for the commerce students.
• 2 - Investments
• Positions for equity research analyst, investment
  banker, mutual fund executive, capital market
  manager, asset manager, venture capitalist and
  real estate are always open and traded by many.
• 3 - Insurance
• A sector which has shown an exponential growth of
  late in India. There are enormous opportunities
  to be exploited to make a great career.

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• 4 - Capital market
• A Liberalized Indian economy has been welcomed by
  capitalists with a great deal of investment and
  superb projects. This has definitely brought
  about a spurt of opportunities. Try your career
  in the Capital Market Domain which is an
  unquenchable fire.
• 5 - Accounting and Taxation
• Opportunities in this field will never diminish
  so be thoroughly prepared and ready to jump into
  one of these pools. KPO and BPO sector is growing
  and can meet the demand of talent. Skilled
  accountants are greeted warmly with open arms in
  both the domestic as well as the international
  job market.

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• 6 - Company Secretary
• A Company Secretary (CS) is an important
  accounting designation in a company. A CS in a
  company is the mediator between the board of
  directors, shareholders, government and other
  agencies. The CS has the required expertise in
  legal matters, securities law, capital market and
  corporate governance to regulate a company
  according to the compliance charted out.
• 7 - Costs and Work Accountant
• These professionals are mostly involved in the
  auditing of the companies and are required to
  maintain cost accounting records, certify import
  and export documents under the Exim Policy, serve
  as executor, administrator, receiver and value.
  They are integral to any business houses working
  with respect to the strategic decisions that they
  help in facilitating, in respect of diverse
  economic activities of the organization.

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• 8 - Cost Management Accountants
•  A Cost and Management Accountant (CMAI) is
  responsible for enlisting the cost of
  manufacturing and keeping a book of accounting on
  it. He is involved in the pricing of the goods
  and services produced verification or
  certification of taxation, especially with
  respect to indirect taxation.
• This career though not a hot selling cake has the
  position as an essential role to the marketing
  department. The main job of cost and management
  accountant is to prepare quotations for tender
  responses the production department requires the
  person involved to make sound decisions
  profitable product mix. The purchase department
  is always at a loss without the cost accountants
  advice for making any decisions regarding buying.
  They play a crucial role in identifying business
  risks and their mitigation.

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• 9 - Actuaries
• Actuaries are involved in the assessment of the
  financial impact of risk and uncertainty. They
  assess the financial security systems, and
  regularly monitor their complexity, the
  mathematics involved in the same and their
  mechanisms.  An actuary in other words is the
  caretaker and onlooker of the company ensuring no
  mishaps or risks arrive jeopardizing the harmony
  of the current working conditions in the company.
  They use mathematics to evaluate the probability
  of events in order to ensure stability and
  minimization of financial losses associated with
  an event that is not only uncertain but is
  undesirable. Events such as death and accidents
  are unpredictable and risks involved in such
  cases are immense yet the less possible impact on
  the balance sheet of the company needs to be
  ensured and this is primarily the job of an
  actuary.
• The pre-requisite qualities to become an actuary
  are asset management, liability management, and
  valuation skills. Analytical skills, business
  knowledge and understanding of human behaviour
  are necessary to design and manage programs to
  assess and control risk.

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•  10 - Certified Financial Planners
• CFP or Certified Financial Planner is a
  certificate course for financial planners who are
  looking to specialize in the strategic financial
  planning or advisory role in the financial
  services industry. The CFP is a mark of
  excellence, recognized and respected worldwide by
  the financial professionals. A career in wealth
  management is an ideal situation for a CFP. The
  course trains a professional in the various
  aspects of personal finance like tax planning,
  insurance planning, and estate is planning. A CFP
  finds employment opportunities in banks, wealth
  management companies, insurance companies, mutual
  fund and other financial intermediaries. CFPs are
  in demand in India as we need to meet at least
  50,000 financial planners, and not even 10 has
  been met.
•  Here's wishing you Godspeed and good luck as you
  venture into a career after a degree in
  Commerce!!!

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