If, you are good at mathematics and ever thought of becoming an accountant. This will help you choose if you want to study in this field at school, show you what an accountant is, what is a regular day as an accountant, show you the pros and cons and make sure you know at the end if this career is for you or not at all.
An accountant is someone in every company/business that keeps tracks of the financial situation, he is one of the main reasons if a company is doing good or bad. As an accountant, you need to study every detail in every number in the general ledger so that you can say what's the big problem at the end of the year and so that you can present those number to the investors.
An accountant helps to manage the finance of the business, with their financial records, taxes, budgets, their register their purchases and makes the payment to their suppliers. Also, they prepare financial statement, analyzes the budget, and they plan, provide financial advice.
An accountant does many tasks during the day. They record some transactions, payrolls and some due payment. Also, they need to prepare financial statement to present to their colleagues, clients, and superiors. The boring part is that during the day they encounter many problems with the outcome of their number that need to be solved quickly.
Generally, accountants works in an office at the head office of the company they work for. They can also work from home if the work for a small business or, if there are doing personal taxes. Working in an office could be boring but at least you would be more productive than working home with all the distractions.
You don't need a degree to be an accountant, you could easily learn the base of this work with training in a small business with another accountant but, if you want to be a CPA after the university you should probably go to CEGEP and learn a lot from the teacher with lots of experience.
Without the CPA certificate you would probably make around $60000 but if, you go to university for 4 years and get a CPA certificate you doubled your salary to $120000. Also, the more experiences you have the more you get.
To be a good accountant, you should be really good with any computer on the market and especially with Excel, PowerPoint and Sage50. Along that you should be very good with mathematics because time is money, and you don't have a lot of time to do simple math.
There is literally no danger of being an accountant aside from being very open to mental illness like depression and illness like that, because of the type of work.
Technically yes, because in fact while you work you will use a lot of software that are produced by AI and robot like computer, calculator, but a robot will not be able to spot the differences of the number caused by some events like the Covid-19 or to present statement, communicate the problems with the clients and with the superior. So maybe, they will do 60-70% of our work load, but they will never replace us.
They retire around the age of 58-66 years old, but it's a subjective number because some of the accountants retire before this gap because they already made a lot of money and some of them change their career to teach young people their knowledge.
In conclusion, accountants play a big part in managing the finance of a company or of a person. They help to keep the finance organized and positive. It's a profession that requires a lot of attention to every detail that looks weird. To be an accountant you need to have a passion for numbers.
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