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Places Where Accountants Work

CA Deep Upadhyay (CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT) (267 Points)

19 December 2007

Public Accounting Firms

Public Accountants work in partnerships which provide accounting services to individuals, businesses and governments. The largest, high-profile public accounting firms are known as the Bix Six and dominate the field of accounting. This field offers advancement potential to audit manager, tax manager or partner reached by only two to three percent of new hires.

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CA Deep Upadhyay (CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT) (267 Points)
Replied 19 December 2007

Government Government accountants may work at the local/state level or the federal level and administer and formulate budgets, track costs and analyze programs. This work can have high impact on the public good but can also get political and is subject to bureaucratic obstruction. Government accounting offers advancement in most organizations to controller and possibly to higher administrative positions. Places which hire heavily at the federal level include the Department of Defense, the General Accounting Office and the Internal Revenue Service.

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CA Deep Upadhyay (CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT) (267 Points)
Replied 19 December 2007

Corporations Corporations big and small typically have an accounting group which prepares financial statements, tracks costs, handles tax issues, works on international transactions. The work is exciting and offers tracks to audit manager, tax manager, cost accounting manager and controller on the accounting side or to manager of financial planning and analysis and Treasurer on the finance side.

CA Deep Upadhyay (CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT) (267 Points)
Replied 19 December 2007

Solo A time-honored form of employment is to become a CPA and hang out your own shingle. This form of work requires you to generate your own business, but has the benefits of offering close customer contact, a high degree of independence and, depending on how good you are, high financial rewards. This work can be risky but puts you in the midst of community affairs.