Introduction

The objective of this career research paper is to know the information about being a Certified
Public Accountant including their salary, tasks and other duties that an accountant does.

These are my career goals, to become a CPA either an engineer or an IT expert.

CPA stand for Certified Public Accountant. Since I was a kid my mindset is, if you are good in
math or if you love math, you must be an accountant. That is what my relatives always
mentioned. Me as a kid, I learned how to solve numbers. I always love doing those things than
other activities . Growing up little by little, I realized that I really need to pursue my dreams
being an accountant, because it suits me and this is what’s on my heart. Also, growing up I
realized how hard to achieve this dream, but because of the influence of my cousin which is an
accountant and other relatives, I am motivated to continue even there are lots of hindrances and
circumstances happening. The most important thing is, you always have to believe in yourself.

I decided to chose being a Certified Public Accountant as a topic for this career research paper
for me to be more knowledgeable about this career that I am pursuing.
For this career research paper, I decided to chose being a Certified Public Accountant as a topic
for me to be more knowledgeable about the career that I am pursuing.

Scope and Limitations

This research paper contains information about being a Certified Public Accountant. Other
careers are not included here.

Ung blue ulit ulit ung thought ng sentence na about cpa ung research paper mo
The purpose of this research paper is to provide information about being a CPA for the student to
be knowledgeable to this career and it can be included to their choices someday.
The topic of this research is being a CPA and this paper is compose of the following; (1)How
much earnings they have in a month or their monthly salary, (2)The effect of the job or career in
their lives, (3)What are their everyday activities at work and other information.

The data that will be written on this paper are from the professional individuals and from related
internet sites such as Investopedia, miss cpa, chron, DOLE, and college connect. Students that
are in the decision making stage will benefit a lot from this research paper.

Review of Related Literature

Possible job
These are the few possible job for an accountancy graduate.
Management Accountants - they are working for a company in a team to produce information
and analysis to the executives. Executive will use it for the financial reports that is given to
shareholders, creditor, regulatory agencies and Internal Revenue Service.

Government Accountants/Auditor - employed in local governments. Doing the books for

government agencies as well as audits the business and individuals who needs to follow the law
to pay taxes.

Internal Auditor - work as examiners in the internal control to check if there are inconsistencies
within the transaction and prevents mismanagement.

Environmental Accounting - does analyzation of the cost of pollution, avoiding manufacturing

and differentiate it to other alternative containing missed taxes and bad relations to the
individuals in the surrounding.

The Showbiz Accounting - does financial services for the studios, production companies, artist
and technicians. Also dealing with taxes, audit and financial analysis.

These are the few jobs that can be included in your choices once you decided what position you
are applying for.

Starting salary
The starting pay of an Accountant who is working in government offices is P20,000. Other
positions like Chief Accountant commonly has a monthly take home pay of P30,000 – P35,000.
While in the private companies, accountants starting pay are ranging from P35,000 – P 45,000 a
month. Multi companies gives a starting salary to their accountants ranging from P50,000 –
P70,000 a month.

Best school
The following are the best schools for accountancy which is based on their board examination
passing rate. They used it as a basis because in that way their teaching skills will be tested. UP
Diliman Quezon City has a 98% of passing rate in Certified Public Accountant Board Exam
same as University of St. Lasalle located in Bacolod city. Adventist University of the Philippines
located in Silang has a 97% rating on their Board Exam. Followed by University of San Carlos
located in San Carlos Cebu City and lastly, Kingfisher School of Business and Finance located in
Lucao which has a 96% passing rate on their board exam.

Difference between Certified Public Accountant and an Accountant

A Certified Public Accountant is a graduate of BSBA who acquired a license by taking and
passing the board exam. Has a higher position in a company and has 10 to 15 percent higher
income.

(Ang negative, may “just” tsaka “failed”. Gawin nating positive ung sentence para ma encourage
ang readers, hehe) While the accountant is just a graduate of accountancy course maybe failed in
a board exam of didn’t take it, lower income, in some companies they have a low position but in
some even you are not a CPA you can be promoted in a higher position base on your skills. If
you are promoted you income will get more high than the usual.
On the other hand, an accountant is also a graduate of BSBA who didn’t took the board exam. In
some companies, they may start from a lower position with a lower income. Some companies
have performanced based promotion, so even if you are not a CPA, you might gain a high
position with a higher income.

Qualification needed to become an accountant

The qualifications to become a Certified Public Accountant are as follows; (1) Has a bachelor’s
degree in accountancy that is composed of 5 years of compulsory education, (2) Master’s degree
in Accounting Business Administration which usually takes upto 2 years, (3) Relevant years of
working or internship. These are required to be ready in a workplace. Other relevant trainings
and certification are only optional. These are the skills that needs to be developed while
studying; strong analytical skills with attention to details, excellent computer skills, strong
communication and interpersonal skills.

Methods and Results

Data gathering and topic information. For the primary questions, I conducted a personal and via
email interview with five (5) open ended questions. I seek people who are accounting
professionals who can be my possible respondent and nine (9) out of 100 agreed. For my
interview, I sent them an email containing the letter of invitation as an attachment. It also
includes Google form where in they are going to answer five(5) open ended questions.

Primary Questions: Interview Via Email and personal interview

1. How many months is the regularization period in your company?

2. What experience should I have to be hired in prominent Accounting Firms?

Most answers by the respondents is being a CPA board passer is enough to be hired in
accounting firm. Five out of nine of the respondent answered being a CPA board passer paired
with a mastery of accounting standards, principles, concept, and principles. The rest of them
answered, graduate with an accounting related course, with a good scholastic record to impress
the accounting firm and be hired. Some of the firms are hiring an fresh graduate without a
licensed but some are hiring an accountant that is licensed.

3. What work habits will I develop once I become an Accountant?

Utmost of the answered by the respondent, skills that can be develop once you become an
accountant are analyzation skills, Time management, integrity, and patience. Being an
accountant you must be good in analyzing interms of financial info of a company, transaction
and other related to money because money is the most important in a business which
administered by an accountant. Time management is also important because in accounting, date
is a must once the deadline said must be accomplish in time specially in closing the accounts in
the end of the month either a year. Integrity is the most important that needs to be develop
because being an accountant you are handling an accounts, money that needs to do or finished
with honesty. Patience will also develop specialy when you are admenstiring group of people.
All of this will develop when you are a hardworking individuals.

4. What is the risk of being an Accountant?

Based on the respondent answers there is a two factor that have a risk when you become an
accountant. Risk in your own life and also at work. In real life being an accountant can
consumed all your time, time for your family , friends and also for yourself due to meeting the
deadlines of financial statements, works and reports monthly, quarterly, anually that needs to
pass on time, health is also affected on this situation getting sick and doesn’t have enough sleep.
Being an Accountant itself doing the task is too risky because you as an Accountant handling
money that can prone you to temptation but must always remembered you have integrity and
credibility to secure and being professional all the time. Also mislallocating the amounts and
interpretaions in the statements is very a big problem.

5. In a scale of 1-5 (1 as the lowest and 5 as the highest) rate how challenging is your work?
Why?

Being an accountant is perilous and difficult work you could ever be. Most of the respondent rate
how their work is. The most number answered is 3-5 it show how difficult their work. Four of
them answered 5 because of difficulties of handling people with different work attitudes and in
terms of the output of their assigned task. Four of them rated it as 4 because of the accounts
they are administiring should be done accurately, the money that is reported to them must be
recorded well and there is no excess and missing amounts and being complicated of accounting
process. The rest rate it as 3 because of the lone years of experienced the task that they are doing
is just in the middle of difficulties and challenges.

Conclusion
I become more knowledgeable and discovered many information in this research. Being a CPA
has a lot of pro’s and con’s that can affect our personal lifes and also to your work itself.
Cons’s are including the lost of social life, lost of time for the family and friends. In the work
itself it can test you as a person, your integrity, patience, hardwork, credibility and your time
management because you are administering the financial reports and other related to the money
of the company.

Pros are you can get a good salary that can sustain your life also your needs and also developed
many skills.

This career is become more interesting to me because of the challenging task that they are doing,
handling group of people or a team, checking the financial reports.
Certified Public Accounts or Accountants is the most difficult job that you could ever have and
also this is a crucial person in a company because these professionals are involved in the money
of the company if they didn’t do their job properly the business or company may lost profit worst
lost the business.

As an aspiring Certified Public Accountant I can proudly say that I’am very suit to this because I
realized that while im studying I’am developing the skills that an accountant should have and
once and I become an accountant I will developed many skills.

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