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Accounting and financial oversight is a passion of mine. I also enjoy helping others achieve their desired goals. Due primarily to the extreme catastrophes caused by the financial crisis, solid accounting principles are needed more than ever. Individual investors, pension funds, and governments all rely on solid financial information in order to make prudent decisions regarding their investments. Accounting, and the confidence in its reliability, is the primarily component to its trust. Through the coursework garnered through this program, my aim is to instill trust within accounting to help provide companies with pertinent and useful information. This information, I believe, will allow companies to make prudent financial decisions that ultimately benefit the company and society at large. I intend to apply the knowledge gained from this program to provide viable and beneficial accounting solutions to a fortune 500 company.
My short goals upon completion of the program are centered primarily on working for a company in which I personally admire. Upon completion of the program I expect to accept an entry level accounting position which will properly utilize my skills and abilities. I intend to learn extensively...
I also expect to add value to the organization through my skills that will immediate be recognized by the organization. Through this skill recognition, I will aspire to receive a promotion within 2 years of accepting the original entry level position.
I posses many of the skills needed to achieve these goals. A deep passion for numbers, rooted in my strong undergraduate performance, provides a foundation in which to build my accounting proficiency. In addition, I posses a strong attention to detail which is needed within the field. In addition, I posses strong team work skills which will be needed within a large organization. Individuals, particularly in a more globalized economy, will need the ability to communicate effectively with others. These communication skills are integral to proper teamwork, as accounting requires large amounts of collaboration. Finally, I posses curiosity, which is a very underrating skill its todays market economy. Curiosity, particularly in the accounting profession is needed to unearth potential threats to business or accounting assumptions that might otherwise undermine the viability…
Professional Ethics for CPABrowning, Levin & Wolod is a large accounting company that recruits college graduates. This accounting company engages in college job fairs throughout the country with the purpose of hiring the best accounting graduates every year. The firm only hires recent graduates with an excellent understanding of AICPA�s Code of Professional Ethics. As part of the recruitment process, the firm invites candidates to provide a writing sample demonstrating
career interest is accounting. Accountancy is the process of evaluating the financial information about business entities to users such as the managers of the shareholders (Elliot, & Elliot, 2004). Accountancy falls into three areas: accounting, bookkeeping, and auditing. I choose accounting since it will give me a solid employment with a lucrative wage and this is what is important to me. I have also learned that it can be fun
Legislation and standards affecting IT auditing The Audit Quality Forum was established with the primary purpose of reinforcing confidence in financial reporting. Statutory auditing promotes confidence because auditors are likely to give external and objective opinions on the presentation and preparation of financial statements. Auditors are required to be independent in opinions expressed, and their work is greatly based on real world. This is challenging in particular national settings. Recently, standard
roles of forensic accountants in preventing and detecting fraud within a business community. The paper highlights the requisites and basic responsibilities of a forensic accountant. The paper also makes references on the special cases where forensic accountants have assisted in fraud detection and prevention. Overview of Forensic Accounting Forensic accounting is the specialty area of accounting used to train an individual to develop the special accounting skills to detect and prevent
Accountancy is defined as a profession which is primarily responsible for keeping financial records, including records pertaining to expenditures and taxation. Accountants provide advice to clients, but they have a larger responsibility to the profession that transcends immediate client needs. [an Accountant Job Description] No matter how lucrative the client, the accountant must uphold the profession's ethical standards. That is why one of the most important qualities of any accountant
Therefore an indigenous accounting profession did not evolve in this period either and no accounting or audit rules were established" (2000, p. 16). In this free-for-all environment, it is difficult to discern any influence from the French accounting profession, except to the extent that its transactions involved the international community where certain documentary practices must be followed in order to conduct international commerce. For example, according to a contemporaneous