Si Qun (Annie) Qian: An accounting entrepreneur

Annie’s journey

As an entrepreneur, I have invested in a boutique accounting firm with the intention to establish their Chinese desk along with some new services. My role involves day-to-day running of the team, as well as working with the marketing manager to set performance targets and new strategies to promote our services.

I was strongly drawn to the Cambridge Master of Accounting programme by its unconventional approach towards accounting. Having studied Accounting in my undergraduate degree, I found myself troubled by many theories in traditional accounting that did not entirely make sense. The Cambridge Executive Master of Accounting programme offered the opportunity to scrutinise the underlying problems within the accounting system and challenged us to think critically about the causes and solutions.

I really enjoyed the discussions throughout different classes and I strongly agree that there are still a lot of areas in the field of accounting to be thoroughly debated, rather than just taught to students. The discussions encouraged me to think from different perspectives and to understand the correlation between factors that might affect future accounting standard setting.