Step two
Choose the role you are preparing for
Each track here is a job an accountant is hired into in the Saudi market, and ends in a reviewable portfolio.
Reporting and analysis
The full accounting cycle from source document to statements, closing the month so it ties out.
Evidence it produces: Financial Accountant roadmap and evidence file
What demonstrates readiness: Readiness is built through passed tasks and the quality of journals, reconciliations, and workpapers you can explain and reproduce.
Financial Reporting AccountantClosing the period and preparing statements and disclosures under the standards adopted in Saudi Arabia.
Evidence it produces: Financial Reporting Accountant roadmap and evidence file
What demonstrates readiness: Readiness is built through passed tasks and the quality of journals, reconciliations, and workpapers you can explain and reproduce.
Cost AccountantProduct costing, overhead allocation and variance analysis.
Evidence it produces: Cost Accountant roadmap and evidence file
What demonstrates readiness: Readiness is built through passed tasks and the quality of journals, reconciliations, and workpapers you can explain and reproduce.
Financial Planning AnalystBudgeting, forecasting and the three-statement model, and explaining plan against actual.
Evidence it produces: Financial Planning Analyst roadmap and evidence file
What demonstrates readiness: Readiness is built through passed tasks and the quality of journals, reconciliations, and workpapers you can explain and reproduce.
ERP Systems AccountantRunning the accounting cycle inside an ERP, and the configuration that produces the numbers.
Evidence it produces: ERP Systems Accountant roadmap and evidence file
What demonstrates readiness: Readiness is built through passed tasks and the quality of journals, reconciliations, and workpapers you can explain and reproduce.
Tax and Zakat
Value added tax from invoice to return, and e-invoicing.
Evidence it produces: Value Added Tax Specialist roadmap and evidence file
What demonstrates readiness: Readiness is built through passed tasks and the quality of journals, reconciliations, and workpapers you can explain and reproduce.
Zakat and Corporate Tax SpecialistThe Zakat base and corporate income tax, and where book treatment departs from the statutory one.
Evidence it produces: Zakat and Corporate Tax Specialist roadmap and evidence file
What demonstrates readiness: Readiness is built through passed tasks and the quality of journals, reconciliations, and workpapers you can explain and reproduce.
Assurance
Assessing and testing internal controls, and writing a finding that persuades management to fix it.
Evidence it produces: Internal Auditor roadmap and evidence file
What demonstrates readiness: Readiness is built through passed tasks and the quality of journals, reconciliations, and workpapers you can explain and reproduce.
External Audit AssociateThe first two years in an audit firm: workpapers, evidence and the testing that supports an opinion.
Evidence it produces: External Audit Associate roadmap and evidence file
What demonstrates readiness: Readiness is built through passed tasks and the quality of journals, reconciliations, and workpapers you can explain and reproduce.