How to get into accounting?

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I'm currently in Year 2 of a maths degree with the Open University. I had always thought of going into teaching but I just don't thi k it will be an option so I want to look at other areas of work.
How would I go about getting into accounting when my degree finishes?

Accounting or accountancy? There are further professional exams but many organisations will fund it and give you study time while you work in their finance teams.

Definitely have a look at the websites for the professional accountancy bodies - ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA, ICAEW - the NHS (for one) are usually keen to recruit grads looking to become accountants.

Apologies, I meant accountancy. Great resources there, I will have a look. Thanks.

There are specific financial agencies who recruit roles for graduates and part qualified accountants (your Maths degree may give you some exam exemptions) . Also the big accountancy firms still run graduate schemes.

There's are 2 options:

Working in practice where you work for a company who provides accounting services for clients. Within these are several streams: audit/tax/accounts/transaction services etc. Might be worth researching these to see which would interest you, but audit has the most jobs, followed by tax. You could look up the top 10 accounting companies and then see which of these have offices in your local areas. The "big 4" are set apart from the rest, as people like to have them on their CVs, but they expect very long working hours in return, the other companies still offer the same level of training. On their websites they should have graduate opportunities which you can apply for.

The other option is working in industry, this is working for a company in their finance department. I'm not as familiar with how to find these jobs, but I would probably search "finance graduate jobs" and see what comes up.