Accountant
An Accountant is a financial services knowledge worker of accounting task.
- Context:
- They can (typically) have an Accounting Degree (and have taken accounting courses).
- They can range from being a Personal Accountant to being an Organizational Accountant (such as an in-house accountant).
- They can be a Chartered Accountant.
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- Example(s):
- a Tax Accountant.
- an Accounting Auditor.
- a Forensic Accountant.
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- a Bookkeeper.
- a Financial Analyst.
- a Loan Officer.
- a Lawyer.
- See: Financial Auditor, Analytical Skill, Critical Thinking.
References
2016
- (McCann, 2016a) ⇒ Mike McCann. (2016). “It feels good getting the numbers right."
- QUOTE: Bob was the Assistant Library Director … he was in charge of getting the library’s operating and capital budgets approved each year, … he told me something that only an accountant might understand in his bones: That he remembers how good it felt each year “just to get the numbers right,” to hit his spending target, get his complete budget in balance, and properly account for every dollar.
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/accountant Retrieved:2015-12-10.
- An accountant is a practitioner of accounting or accountancy, who is responsible for disclosing or providing assurance regarding financial information that helps managers, investors, tax authorities, and others make decisions on allocations of resources.
In many jurisdictions, professional accounting bodies maintain standards of practice and evaluations for professionals. Accountants who have demonstrated competency through their professional associations' certification exams are certified to use titles such as Chartered Accountant, Chartered Certified Accountant or Certified Public Accountant. Such professionals are granted certain responsibilities by statute, such as the ability to certify an organization's financial statements, and may be held liable for professional misconduct. Non-qualified accountants may be employed by a qualified accountant, or may work independently without statutory privileges and obligations.
The Big Four auditors are the largest employers of accountants worldwide. However, most accountants are employed in commerce, industry and the public sector. [1]
- An accountant is a practitioner of accounting or accountancy, who is responsible for disclosing or providing assurance regarding financial information that helps managers, investors, tax authorities, and others make decisions on allocations of resources.
- ↑ For example, in 2009 in Ontario, Canada, national firms employed 4,425 Chartered Accountants, which was less than 50% of the members in public practice. (Chartered Accountants in National Firms in Ontario, Canada) With a total membership of 33,146, the national firms only employed about 13% of all Chartered Accountants in Ontario. (Ontario Chartered Accountants demographics) Most of the members are employed in industry, with the majority in small and medium sized enterprises.