http://www.saigontimes.com.vn/daily/detail...2932&SoTT=1

"He said Vietnam now was lacking professional training institutions in finance, leading to shortage of skilled sources in this section such as Vietnam had only 1,200 accountants while the figure in the UK was 250,000."

Vietnam's low number of accountants is probably not a huge deal, if everyone gets trained on double entry bookkeeping and the tax laws are made simple and easy to understand. Otherwise, it's a mess because the firms don't have the expertise to keep their books in an auditable condition, the auditors don't have a clue what they are supposed to audit and the tax money that is owed the state just slips between the state's fingers as the auditors are bribed to interpret the tax laws in the audited firms' favor. I don't know but I suspect that 250000 accountants would be a drain on the Vietnamese economy.

Vietnam doesn't have that many companies as the UK, so obviously VN doesn't have as many accountants. What we need is a lot more engineers and scientists. They are the economic engine of any industrialzed nation. As these people create jobs and companies, then more jobs will become available for accountants.