If you ever thought about becoming an accountant, this article is for you! In this article I am going to answer most of your questions about this job, and you will be able to be more prepared for your future. You are going to learn about what they do, where they work, how to become one, how much money they make, what additional training they need, the dangers of being an accountant, what are the chances they get replaced by robots in the future and finally when they retire. I am motivated to write this article because I would like to share to you that is reading this article some information that you don't know and that could be helpful throughout your journey to become an accountant.
An accountant is someone who works on analyzing and interpreting financial records and for that you have to be good with numbers. You can find an accountant in almost every industry some will be helping companies while other may only help some individuals or some could be doing both.
When you are an accountant, you do a lot of different tasks. According to The Prince Review website accountants "keep track of payments, financial positions, and transfers of capital or income for individual or institutional clients". Also, accountants can give feedback to individuals on their financial standings. Basically accountants manage businesses and individuals finances.
On a typical day an accountant usually ensure the accuracy of financial record, prepare financial statements, create budgets and sometimes meet with a client to give them financial advice to help them.
Accountants can work in a company office, at home, or they can work in their own business by themselves if they are ready to accept to have more responsibilities.
If you want to become an accountant in Quebec, you can go to college and do a 3-year program, but if you want to become a chartered accountant you will have to go to university to pursue your studies, and after you will have to pass an exam to become one.
A chartered accountant in Canada make around $90 000 a year and an accountant make around $65 000 a year, but it can vary depending on different factors such as your experience.
Sometimes accountants will have to get some additional training to keep in touch with the changes of taxes and regulations, and also you might need some additional training to go in some specific field.
The dangers of being an accountant would mainly be a burnout and physical pain because when you are an accountant you have to work a lot especially when it is the tax season and when you work you are sitting at your desk for multiples hours which can cause multiple pain on your body.
According to Graphenedigital website more than 40% of jobs could be automated but not everything because you will need accountants to read and interpret the numbers and those 40% are the jobs of entering numbers.
Accountants retire at the same time as most of the jobs so at around 65 year old, but it can depend vary depending on each person some might retire earlier because they have health issue due to overwork or bad position
I hope you learned a lot or even a little bit, if you already knew some of the information. If you want to become an accountant, be ready to work really hard at your desk because that is what you are going to do most of the time. Good luck and, if you need or want some tools that could help you improve and be a better accountant do not hesitate to check my glossary and my screencast.
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