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Last Modified: 11/08/06
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accounting careers
Accounting is the study of how businesses track their income and assets over time. Accountants engage in a wide variety of activities besides preparing financial statements and recording business transactions including computing costs and efficiency gains from new technologies, participating in strategies for mergers and acquisitions, quality management, developing and using information systems to track financial performance, tax strategy, and health care benefits management.
There's a lot to get out of a career in accounting. Perhaps most important: You will learn how business works. The field of accounting offers stimulating and challenging work that is constantly evolving. Because accountants spend a lot of time looking under the hoods of businesses they really learn how business works. It's no surprise that many successful players in business began their careers as accountants. It's also no surprise that most Chief Financial Officers of large corporations have a background in accounting. An accountant is perfectly positioned to become a CFO because he or she probably has the best understanding of what drives business and profits in a company.
Related Accounting Major Skills & Characteristics
*Ability to analyze & interpret data
*Adapt well to frequent change
*Computer literacy
*Critical thinker
*Efficient
*Logical thinking skills |
*Numerical computation skills
*Oral & written communication skills
*Organized
*Problem solver
*Systemizing skills
*Work independently or in teams
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Possible Careers for Accounting Majors
*Accountant, Public Practice
*Actuary
*Administrative Services Manager
*Administrator
*Assistant Controller
*Auditor
*Bank Examiner
*Benefits/Compensation Administrator
*Bookkeeper
*Budget Accountant
*Budgetary Control Analyst
*Business Teacher
*Certified Public Accountant
*Chief Cost Accountant
*Chief Financial Officer
*CIA Agent
*Claim Adjuster/Examiner
*Claims Adjuster
*Collection Agent
*Commercial Banker
*Commodities Trader
*Computer Programmer
*Consumer Credit Officer
*Contract Administrator
*Controller
*Cost Accountant
*Cost Department Supervisor
*Credit & Collection Specialist
*EDP Auditor
*Employment Agency Counselor
*Entrepreneur
*Estate Planner
*External Auditor
*FBI Agent
*Financial Aid Director
*Financial Analyst
*Financial Investment Analyst
*Fund Raiser
*General Auditor
*Governmental Accountant |
*Industrial Accountant
*Industrial Buyer
*Industrial Transportation Specialist
*Institutional Buyer
*Insurance Agent/Broker
*Internal Auditor
*International Trade Specialist
*Inventory Control Specialist
*IRM Consultant
*IRS Investigator
*Lawyer - Audit Manager
*Loan Administrator
*Loan Officer/Consumer Credit
*Management Consultant
*Managerial Accountant
*Methods/Procedures Specialist
*Payroll Manager
*Personal Financial Planner
*Plant Accountant
*Production Manager
*Professor
*Property Accountant
*Public Accountant
*Sales manager
*Securities Broker
*Stockbroker
*Student Affairs Manager
*Systems Accountant
*Systems Analyst
*Tax Accountant
*Tax Compliance Specialist
*Tax Lawyer
*Tax Specialist
*Tax Supervisor/Auditor
*Television/Film Producer
*Treasurer
*Treasury Management Specialist
*Trust Accountant
*Underwriter |
***List is not inclusive of all possibilities
Information provided by the University of North Carolina at Wilmington web site
http://www.uncwil.edu/stuaff/career/Majors/accounting.htm (1/30/05)
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