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careers related to accounting?

what are some careers related to accounting?

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1. A Ceritified Public Accountant (CPA) you can learn payroll, start out like I am being an Accounts Payable Clerk. I am planning on learning payroll and keeping up what I am doing. My step dad is a CPA and he makes damn good $$$
2. There are numerous tracks but the main tracks are Public Accounting and Corporate Accounting. In Public Accounting, you can have two types of careers...auditing or tax. As an auditor, you will audit a corporation's financial statements to assure that they are presented in GAAP. A tax professional prepares tax returns for Corporations and Individuals. Corporate Accounting is where you will record transactions for an organization. Corporate Accounting is much more detail oriented if it is done correctly. I have seen many public accounting professionals go into a corporate accounting environment and screwed the whole thing up because they are unable to deal with the details involved. Dependent on what your job is within a corporation, you could do a part of the accounting or the whole thing. This includes Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Payroll, Tax, and General Ledger. I have worked in both environments. For me, corporate accounting is better. I like to be in an environment where I can instigate where the transactions will go and assure that the cash and other accounts reconcile in the 1st round. I enjoyed public accounting but I had a problem with the time factor especially in situations where the books of a client were in a total mess. CPAs do not usually budget for messes within a client's books. My conscience does not allow me to just glance over a set of books from a client that are a total mess. People can do this but I just can't. I want to fix it for the client and then finish the CPAs work. In favor of the Public Accountant, an auditor is prohibited from offering clean-up services to a client. Most cases will require the CPA to hire another CPA firm to clean up the mess. Then, the auditor will return to the client's location to complete the audit. If this is not done, there is a conflict in terms of independence. The auditing CPA does not usually give a bad opinion on financials unless the company is unco-operative. In the end, unless you have a real talent for this field and there is nothing else you can do, go for it. If you have another talent other than accounting where you can make money, change your major and run away as fast as your legs can take you. The industry stinks and is one of the lowest paying jobs in corporate America. For example, an engineer makes $100K a year where the accountant will make $60 to $70K a year. The money does not make up for all the stress involved. My uncle was also a CPA. His motto was when I got my 1st job at a CPA firm, "Welcome to the funny farm." Just remember that.