By Angela Lee Loy:

 

Dare to dream (taken from ‘Your Brilliant Career’ by: Jamie Ambler)

Your future career may be hard to imagine now, if you are struggling to pass your exams and survive on a tight budget, but if you work hard, one day you could be both professionally successful and financially secure. 'From childhood I knew that I wanted to do something with numbers,' recalls Angela Lee Loy FCCA. Although her parents could not afford to send her to university, she used her A-levels as a springboard into accounting. 
 
'The accessibility of the ACCA Qualification allowed me to start a successful career,' she says, 'and a qualification coupled with practical experience allows you to move up quickly.' It was a combination that enabled her to become partner in a Big Four firm at just 33 years of age. 'I've never looked back since,' enthuses Angela, who now runs her own accounting outsourcing company, Aegis Business Solutions.