Sep 21, 2026 · 53 min · 10 segments
In this journal entry, I sit down with Mark Tipping. He shares about his 17 year journey to become a CA(SA), starting straight out of school, but then giving up after being unsuccessful twice in CTA…
Mark TippingGuest
Tracey KrauseHost
So I grew up in Johannesburg, went to a government high school, and in about grade 11, I did an accounting project where we had to go job shadow at an audit firm.
So they let us sit with the audit partners, they let us sit with the staff, and they explained all the different routes you could go in as a CA, where you could land up, what you could do.
And then I got to university and started and realized what I was doing was bookkeeping and that accounting is quite different.
But it is good to have that basis of accounting knowledge or bookkeeping knowledge because you understand debits and credits and like the journal entries that are happening in the background.
Am I correct? No childhood accountants like in the family or among your friendship circle at that stage.
So I grew up in Johannesburg, went to a government high school, and in about grade 11, I did an accounting project where we had to go job shadow at an audit firm.
So they let us sit with the audit partners, they let us sit with the staff, and they explained all the different routes you could go in as a CA, where you could land up, what you could do.
And then I got to university and started and realized what I was doing was bookkeeping and that accounting is quite different.
But it is good to have that basis of accounting knowledge or bookkeeping knowledge because you understand debits and credits and like the journal entries that are happening in the background.
Am I correct? No childhood accountants like in the family or among your friendship circle at that stage.
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