From few thousands years until nowadays, accounting is still not out-dated but changed in its role. In Malaysia, accountant is a respected job as it is considered professional job ever.
I still remember what did my teacher say when I was in secondary school. She said, accountant earned a lot of money, stable(Boss would not fire accountant first if there is any job-cutting), professional and respected. She gave us a lot of impressions of how good in becoming an accountant.
No doubt, many of the students strongly believed in her said. But I DIDN'T. I do believe that technology keep on advancing every moment in the world, nobody would escape from its impact. If we were still believing in the old mind of industry time, we were out-dated, indeed.
It is not wrong if she said this at 20 or 30 years ago. It definitely wrong if you were still saying this kind of thing in 21st century. Everyone still mixes accountant clerk and qualified accountant.
Nowadays, accounting separates into 2 types: executive and professional. Mostly, executive is doing some accountant's old time job, like key in data, recording transaction. Qualified is acting as a business adviser, provide information to customers or boss, like taxation, legal, and cost structure.
So, can you see the differences? Accounting has changed. Switch from recorder to adviser. You must professional enough if you are ready to be qualified. If accountant is STILL doing recording, why we must have a degree certificate? Diploma also too much for it.
Sadly, most of the Malaysian students do not realise it.
