Xacc 280 - Career Opportunities for Accountants
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Career Opportunities for Accountants
XACC/280
January 20, 2013
Career Opportunities for Accountants
There are many different types of accountants. This field could take one into auditing, cost, forensic, public, tax, private, and trust accounting. Regardless of the type of accountant one decides to become they will be helping businesses, individual, or government to analyze and understand ones financial information.
The areas in accounting I find interesting and would like to work are forensic accounting or in a business as a cost accountant. A forensic accountant investigates white-collar crimes including issues like securities fraud, embezzlement, and bankruptcies. My reason for wanting to work in an area such as this is I have worked for some companies that were pretty shady and would of loved to had the opportunity to investigate them. A cost accountant is a part of my job as a manager in the company I work for. A cost accountant may calculate actual production costs, standard costs, or estimate new product costs for bids. These duties are something I do most daily and that is why I chose this area of accounting. I may not be a cost accountant in title but it is a part of my job so to keep production costs down.
The company I chose to research is the company I currently work for as a manager which is the Salvation Army. My thought is that I would like to become a cost accountant for all of our Michigan stores. In my position as manager I see how production time, new product, and everyday standard costs affect my store in general. To have the ability to show the Majors an overall calculation for all the stores would be a great honor. However, there are drawbacks to my wanting to advance to a higher position within our company. The pay for all management, accounting, and human resources is the same so advancement is just changing positions. Nevertheless, to have the opportunity to work with the management teams on how to make their stores run more efficiently would be worth the same pay rate.
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