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    Career As An Accountant
    Career As An Accountant
    Career As An Accountant
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    Career As An Accountant

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    Exciting professional career providing individuals and businesses with vital Information and essential services. Opportunities are so varied that college accounting majors may have trouble deciding what career path to select. You will enable individuals and businesses to compete and survive in the ever more complex world of finance.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInstitute For Career Research
    Release dateDec 7, 2009
    ISBN9781102468783
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      Career As An Accountant - Institute For Career Research

      Career As An Accountant

      by

      Institute For Career Research

      Copyright 2009 Careers Research Reports by The Institute For Career Research CHICAGO

      Smashwords Edition

      Exciting Professional Career Providing Individuals and Businesses With Vital Information And Essential Services

      Traits:

      Prefer numbers to words.

      Neat and careful worker.

      Independent worker.

      Honest.

      Trustworthy

      What You'll Do:

      Aptitude for Mathematics.

      Accounting.

      Auditing.

      Tax and Consulting Work

      Where You'll Work:

      Urban areas for various sized companies.

      Government Agencies.

      Colleges or Universities.

      Accounting Firm.

      Self-Employed

      Earnings:

      Entry level: $20,000 to $30,000.

      Median level: $90,000 to $100,000

      Education Required:

      BA in Accounting or related field.

      150 semester hours of course work.

      Internship in junior or senior year of college

      Pluses:

      Job security.

      Respect from other professionals.

      Opportunities for career advancement

      Minuses:

      Salary vs. effort.

      Pressure of deadlines.

      Burnout.

      Routine can be tedious

      Introduction

      The accountant of today is quite different than the image most people have of accountants. Books and movies have given the public an unfair character sketch of what accountants are really like. There would be the accountant sitting in a back room or a corner of the room working by himself. Maybe this accountant was portrayed as someone with green eye shades, a pocket calculator and ink-stained hands.

      Due to the influence of associations, the professionalism of this career has risen dramatically.

      Today, accounting is an attractive profession for many students because it offers professional challenges and personal growth opportunities as well as financial rewards. Accountants prepare, analyze and verify financial reports and taxes. These careerists also monitor information systems that provide this information to individuals, industry, business and government.

      Accounting, like other careers, has developed a number of specialized areas. The major fields of accounting are public, management and government accounting as well as internal auditing.

      There are over one million accountants and auditors. They worked in private industry and government. Many are not licensed. Many others are state-licensed Certified Public Accountants (CPAs), Public Accountants (PAs), Registered Public Accountants (RPAs) and Accounting Practitioners (APs).

      Numerous accountants are the leaders of major corporations, start their own practices or are involved with entrepreneurial endeavors. As accounting has evolved through the decades, it has become more than just preparing tax returns. Many accountants help their clients prepare for their financial futures.

      Today's accountant has a vast array of tools—technologies available to get the work done. Accountants use computers with sophisticated software programs for research and business planning. They use the

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