This article is useful to someone thinking about becoming an accountant. There is many information about this job that may help you choose to make this your career.
First, the daily job of an accountant is very different depending on where you work. For example, working in a small business, in a big company or in an accounting office is unalike. It is a pretty routine job, but there are many specialties offered to make this job adapted to what you want to do. For instance, if you like to work with clients you can find a job that will make you interact with them.
An accountant is there to make sure that a company is efficiently operating. They prepare and analyse financial records, make budgets, prepare taxes reports, make payroll, etc. There a many things accountants do, depending on where they work. For example, in bigger companies there can be an accountant who only make payroll.
On a daily basis, accountants prepare and analyse financial information, post journal entries, review clients and suppliers accounts, compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, etc.
They can work in small businesses, in bigger companies, for individuals, for government agencies, etc.
To become an accountant, you need to go to cegep first, of course. After graduating from the cegep, you can become an accounting technician. You can also carry on your studies and acquire a bachelor's or a master's degree.Then, if you want to become certified (CPA), you must enroll in the program and make an internship, courses and an exam.
The salary depends on many things like experience, level of study and workplace, but the average salary of an accountant in Canada is $58 500. Entry level positions start at $40,950 per year while most experienced workers can make $80,000 per year.
As in many professions, accountants can always do more training. They can attend to seminars or conferences, take additional courses, online training, etc.
It is important to be professional because accountants are in possession of their client's personal information and leaking these can lead to several consequences.
Deloitte and Oxford University developed a website that predicts the chances that your job will be taken by a robot. According to that website, accountants have 95% chance of losing their jobs to robots. Other studies are more optimistic, but there are always chances that this will happen.
Accountants mostly retire between the age of 60 and 70.
I hope that this article made you learn more about accounting or helped you make a choice of career.
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