Career after B.Com
The B.Com programme provides a good base for a range of careers. These are broadly of two types — those related to business and finance such as chartered accountancy, company secretaryship, and cost and works accountancy (CWA), banking and so on, and the non-finance fields such as law, civil services, mass communication, hotel management and so on.
There are many diploma courses open to you. To enhance your qualification in accounts, you may consider courses such as CWA, or others related to finance and banking such as a diploma in banking and finance offered by a number of institutes, including the Aligarh Muslim University and University of Rajasthan.Annamalai University offers PG diploma in banking law and practice, which may be helpful if you wish to go for CS or law.
Other courses in banking and finance include a PG diploma in banking operations offered by the Institute of Finance Banking & Insurance, New Delhi, a collaboration between NIIT and ICICI Bank, as also the PG programme in banking and finance offered by the National Institute of Bank Management, Pune, for which admission is through the IIM Common Admission Test (CAT). If you wish to work with non-banking financial companies, or in stocks and securities, there are several courses in securities and capital markets.
The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI) conducts PG diploma programme in treasury and forex management and a PG diploma in merchant banking and financial services. These will enable you to get into financial consulting and finance-related services.
There are a few other short courses in capital markets offered by institutes such as the Indian Institute of Capital Markets. Navi Mumbai: the International College of Financial Planning, New Delhi; Mumbai Stock Exchange training Institute and the National Stock Exchange. The Institute of Financial and Investment Planning offers a one-year correspondence-cum-lecture course leading to a diploma in financial and investment planning.
There are also short courses in export-import and foreign trade offered by the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi; National Institute of Export Management, Chennai and KC College of Management Studies. Mumbai, which offers diplomas in export -import management through correspondence. Indira Gandhi National University (IGNOU) also offers several diploma and certificate courses.
You may look at a PG diploma in Insurance Management as insurance and risk management is another growing field for which a B.Com degree is useful.Further, if you are interested in non-finance related courses, there are any number of diploma programmes in mass communication, event management, travel and tourism and soon. Much depends on your areas of interest and the field of work you wish to focus on.