CPA skills assessment advice please

[Michaelphbell]

Great forum with lots of great advice

There is one bit of advice I can not seem to find but am keen for regarding maximising my points for my 15 years of accounting experience.

I am a Management Accountant that has progressed well in one bluechip company over the last 15 years. However when CPA have assessed my experience In the last ten years they consider I only have 4 years of key management accounting experience. This is because as I was encouraged to broaden my experience if I wanted to become a finance director, therefore I did 4 years an internal auditor within that company and 2 years as an accountant designing and implementing a new General Ledger and AP/AR system. Unfortunately these 2 broader experience jobs do not seem to have qualified as management accountant roles in the eyes of CPA.

My question is has anyone suffered a similar issue and overcome it somehow by including broader accountancy experience to gain more points? Could a letter from my employer explaining why I was encouraged to broaden my experience help? Just seems a bit frustrating that this experience is not counted by the process yet when it makes be a better management accountant to have this experience.

 

Any advice would be greatly recieved

 

Michael

 

[George Lombard]

Hi Michael,

 

There are times when I wouldn't approach an assessing agency for an opinion on work experience and this is one of them. The assessing agencies will give an advice about which ANZSCO Code suits you but they don't apply the Migration Regulations or the Department's guidelines - the PAMS - which allow for work experience to be considered for the points test if it's "closely related" to the assessed occupation. Unfortunately you might need professional advice on that issue, it's not always straightforward, see http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp/au/cases/cth/FCA/2013/1301.html .

 

Cheers,

 

George Lombard

[wrussell]

The usual tasks of an internal auditor, as disclosed by ANZSCO, are not closely related. The rest of the wok experience might be be 15-4 =? immigration do not go back beyond 10 years to award work experience points. Taking migration advice from skills assessing bodies s not sound practice.