Working as an accountant in Sweden
What official sources say about working as an accountant in Sweden: how foreign qualifications are recognised.
Accountant is a regulated profession in Sweden. Foreign qualifications go through: Only the authorised-auditor subset follows Revisorsinspektionen’s qualification route: required theoretical education, at least three years supervised audit training and the auditor examination or applicable EEA aptitude test. Generic accountant employment is not assigned this licence.
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- Only the authorised-auditor subset follows Revisorsinspektionen’s qualification route: required theoretical education, at least three years supervised audit training and the auditor examination or applicable EEA aptitude test. Generic accountant employment is not assigned this licence.
Regulation and recognition
Accountant is a regulated profession in Sweden.
- Recognition route
- Only the authorised-auditor subset follows Revisorsinspektionen’s qualification route: required theoretical education, at least three years supervised audit training and the auditor examination or applicable EEA aptitude test. Generic accountant employment is not assigned this licence.
- Recognition authority
- Revisorsinspektionen for authorised auditors and statutory audit; no generic accountant-wide licence authority is assigned.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Accountant in Sweden: recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version e038ed57f990bc7f837bb637cc0db896]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/accountant/sweden/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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title = {Accountant in Sweden: recognition},
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