Archive about 'Accounting Careers'

Personal & Professional Skill-sets & Attributes For Accountants/CPA

Extracted from Malaysian KPMG’s website pertaining to attributes together with a series of questions designed to indicate how you might measure up against them. They will give you an idea of the professional and personal qualities KPMG/Big Accounting 4 and other top leagues auditing/accounting firms are looking for.

QUESTIONS TO GUAGE ATTRIBUTES

 
Client Responsiveness

 
 
 
 

Have you ever gone [...]

Attributes/Qualities Of A Certified Public Accountant(CPA)

According to MICPA, besides being at the heart of business, a CPA must be proven to possess the following qualities:

Good reasoning power – while not necessarily a mathematical wizard, he or she must be numerate

A good degree of discipline – which will be required during practical training and the acquisition of technical knowledge

A [...]

MIA Member Firms Directory For Malaysian Auditing or Accounting Firms

In case that after your studies or during the holidays, you would want to seek articleship or want to work in one of the Malaysian auditing/ accounting firm and is at loss how to locate them, you can actually go the MIA Member Firms Directory of the Institute which consists of active audit and non-audit [...]

Financial Analyst

In the accounting field, it is quite normal to hear of accounting post like accounts assistant, accounts /receivables/payable clerk, accounts Executives, accounts Officer, accountant, etc, but what then about the post of Financial Analyst.

This article looks at a typical role of the financial analyst.

Normally, the person who is appointed into this role will [...]

Ethnical Conducts And The Management & Financial Management Accountants

Extracted from the www: imanet.org are some guidelines pertaining to ethical dilemmas. These standards are in the areas of competence, confidentiality, integrity and objectivity for those practitioners of management accounting and financial management
By understanding the below guidelines, it is hoped that readers who aspire to be future accounting practitioners know that they have heavy task [...]

Difference Between Financial Accounting And Management Accounting

This article seeks to explain the main difference between financial accounting and management accounting.

DIFFERENCE NO 1:

Financial accounting

Management accounting

Principal objectives

Stewardship of business for benefit of shareholders

Seek to improve economy, efficiency and effectiveness of operations

As we know Financial accounting mainly focus on periodic reporting of accounting information, as [...]

Careers In Accounting: A Survey Of The Top Ten Most Important Work Activities Performed by Accountant

Do you know that Accountants whether he or she is a Financial or Management Accountant can contribute a lot to the organization? There are many critical tasks that can be performed by the aspiring Accountants which are tabulated below:

Top Ten Most Important Work Activities Performed by Accountants

1.   Accounting systems and Financial Reporting

2.   Long-Term strategic planning

3.   Managing the [...]

The Difference Between Financial Accounting and Management Accounting

This article is useful for those who would like to know a little more of the difference between Financial Accounting and Management Accounting.

Financial Accounting

Management Accounting

Prepared more for  external parties.

Prepared specifically for internal management uses.

Subjected to GAAP

No Need.

Mainly on historical events like reports on past events on how income was earned, financial [...]

Career In Accounting : Changing Role Of The Accountant ( Part 9 )

Changing Role Of The Accountant

In this modern IT era, computers are forcing Accountants to change the nature of their work. This is because:

Computerized accounting packages reduce the amount of tedious manual work associated with data management and recordkeeping and

Computers [...]

Careers In Accounting: Related Occupation ( Part 6)

What Are The Related Occupation ?

Besides being an Accountants or auditors, others related accounting jobs include:

budget analysts;

cost estimators;

loan officers;

financial analysts;

personal financial advisors;

tax examiners, collectors, revenue agents;

bill and account collectors;

bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.

Growing trend where they assumed the role of management analysts and are involved in the design, implementation, and maintenance of accounting software systems.