[liquidpele]

There is often a very technology and IT centric viewpoint on this website. This is often the case anyway with technology positions, but for other things like accounting, medicine, law, etc formal education is more required.

[mjburgess]

If you wont pass an accountancy exam without formal education, and i'd say most wouldnt, then they'll get one.

The number of applicants who succeed in such cases, at getting through without formal education, will be very small. And i'd be 90% of those cases, that applicant is way above their peers in performance -- ie., worth having let it