ACCOUNTANTS’ EXAMINATIONS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5372, 3 September 1904, Page 3

ACCOUNTANTS’ EXAMINATIONS.

(To the Editor “N.Z. Times.”) Sir,—ln your issue of the Ist hist., you refer to the examination of the Incorporated Institute of Accountants as a "comparatively trivial examination." Perhaps the "trivial" nature of the examination may be judged by the fact that of twenty-three candidates who sat for the degree of Fellow and Associate in Wellington, last October, only three secured passes, while of one hundred and fifty-one candidates in Australasia ,only thirty passed as Associates and not a single "Fellow" secured a pass. I would ask roil to publish this in justice to the Accountants’ Institute, and to the many candidates who have sat for the. examination which is generally considered the best and most practical commercial examination held in New Zealand.—l am, etc., RESERVE FUND. September 2nd. [The writer misses the point. It was stated by ns that women may qualify at the University-of New Zealand in medicine and law, and may take the arts and science degrees, but are not to be allowed to sit for "the comparatively trivial examination imposed on candidates for degrees in accountancy.” Compared with the examinations for tho learned professions and arts and-science degrees, those of the Institute of Accountants are, of necessity, trivial—that is trivial in comparison with the former. For their purpose, they are, no doubt, quite ' severe enough, but they do not even distantly approaoh the . others. It would be absurd if they did,—Ed-] LADY ACCOUNTANTS. (To the Editor "N.Z. Times.”) Sir,—ln the “Times” on Thursday, there appears a report of a meeting of the Institute of Accountants of hew Zealand, wherein it is stated that a proposal to admit ladies to its ranks was negatived, and vou add: “Thus for the time being there is one calling in life from which women are to be .excluded—for a time,” etc. Permit me to point out to to ladies who are interested in such matters, that they may take their degree in accountancy,, through the New Zealand Accountants’- and Auditors* Association, whose rules provide that women as well as men may sit for examination, such examinations being held every year in the chief centres, of which I shall be pleased to afford further particulars to any one. This, as you rightly infer Is as it should be, and the principle is now recognised in nearly all professions. The decision of the Institute of Accountants might lead to the erroneous impression that ladies are thereby debarred from qualifying for degrees' in accountancy.—l am, etc., , ' , _ , D. McKAY, Sec. Wellington Centre. September 1.