A chartered accountant who qualified in 2000 and is employed in the industrial and commercial sector earns an average remuneration package of €81,600 a year, according to the Annual Salary Survey of the Leinster Society of Chartered Accountants ( LSCA)/The Accountants Panel.

The incoming chairman of the Leinster Society of Chartered Accountants (LSCA), Gerard Perry, today called for a "bedding down period" in the development of accounting standards to allow for the implications of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) implementation to be fully addressed.