How to become an Accounting Professional
Official title: Accounting Professionals
Plans, manages and advises on accounting for individuals and organisations, and audits and certifies financial statements.
Main tasks
- Plan, manage, audit, liquidate and assess accounting matters on behalf of clients or as appointed by government agencies
- Audit and certify financial and tax reports, and give tax advice
- Review accounts and bookkeeping records
- Recommend and plan budgets and accounting systems
Ways in
- University department: Business & Commerce degrees, Offered by 125 universities in Taiwan
- Licence (national exam): Regulated profession. To practise as a certified public accountant you must pass the national Professional and Technical Examination (專門職業及技術人員考試) for 會計師 and hold the certificate. Listed in the annex to article 2 of the Enforcement Rules of the Professional and Technical Examinations Act, item 2.
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Average pay: NT$1,077,000 a year
- Demand for Business and administration jobs is projected at about 1,465,000 in 2024 and about 1,502,000 in 2030. (+2.5%)
- Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
How do I become an Accounting Professional?
Ways in include: Business & Commerce degrees.
How much does an Accounting Professional earn in Taiwan?
Average pay is NT$1,077,000 a year (Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics).
Is an Accounting Professional a growing career in Taiwan?
Demand for this job family is projected to change 2.5% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).
Will AI change the work of an Accounting Professional?
Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics: Occupational Wage Survey (職類別薪資調查) (2025 survey (July 2025 monthly, 2024 annual), released 2026-05-29), Open Government Data License, version 1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- National Development Council: Final manpower demand projections by occupation (職業別最終人力需求推估) (2025 to 2030 (base 2024), 13 job families), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026