Introduction - Who am I

Hello fellow bloggers!

Welcome to my first post. My name is Mollie, I’m 21 and I'm a college student currently studying the Bachelor of Business (honours) degree in South East Technological University. This is a four year course where in our third year we had to decide on our specialised stream. The options include economics and finance, human resource management, management, marketing, and accounting. I chose the accountancy stream, which is ironic seeing as I absolutely despised it for the leaving certificate. However, I did love business and maths.

For the flexible semester we got the choice of doing either work placement, international placement, educational placement (I wouldn’t do it even if you paid me) or the start-up lab. From January to the end of July of this year, I worked in an accountancy firm in Wexford called Asple & Co. I really enjoyed my experience with the firm. It gave me an insight into the accounting world, I learned new skills and I met new people. I got offered a contract to return once I graduate and I’m looking forward to doing so. I will be doing the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) exams once I leave college to further my qualifications, with the help of exemptions awarded from my course.

After learning about the digital economy, I reflected on the various systems I used throughout my time in Asple & Co. I was introduced to many systems used by the company in their daily operations. Two that were used on a daily basis were Virtual Cabinet (VC) and CCH Central. VC was used to store, manage, and send word files, excel files and other important documents through technology. Client files and workings were scanned and uploaded to VC to contribute to achieving the goal of being a paperless office. CCH Central allowed client’s information to be easily accessed and timesheets to be completed each week.

I hope you enjoyed this post and getting to know a bit about me. In my second post I will be discussing Ireland as a digital economy.

Until next week!