[kisna72]

I would highly highly recommend you to find problems you have seen in accountancy world that you can solve with programming. You could get both of both world, satisfaction of work you want to do while benefiting from your industry experience. No programmer (not in accountancy world) here knows about the issues and inefficiencies about it than you do, and you probably have a bunch of contacts you can test your ideas on. That way you keep your advantages of being in the accountancy world, while solving the issues they have by using programming which is what you want to do.

whatever you do, good luck.

[zhte415]

This. With 10 years in accountancy you have embedded within you a deep understanding of business problems that a tech person outside your field simply doesn't have.

So seek synergy. Pick a small problem, and solve it. Something useful is far more impressive than something flash, and can be quantified on a CV pretty well. Set a goal, and that should be something where multiple skills are combined.

Could be tough balancing time and conflicting needs, that's probably your biggest challenge. But you have your advantage of knowing something in-and-out, and learning as you get older gets faster and faster.

Don't forget backend. Also seek some understanding of creating RESTful APIs using a related framework, like if you're interested in front-end, probably JS, learn a JS back-end. I picked hapi on node, and really liked it.