Accountants and Auditors
Examine, analyze, and interpret accounting records to prepare financial statements, give advice, or audit and evaluate statements prepared by others. Install or advise on systems of recording costs or other financial and budgetary data.
What is this job like?
- Direct activities of personnel engaged in filing, recording, compiling, and transmitting financial records.
- Collect and analyze data to detect deficient controls, duplicated effort, extravagance, fraud, or non-compliance with laws, regulations, and management policies.
- Prepare, examine, or analyze accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
- Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting, or other tax requirements.
- Examine records and interview workers to ensure recording of transactions and compliance with laws and regulations.
- Inspect account books and accounting systems for efficiency, effectiveness, and use of accepted accounting procedures to record transactions.
- Review accounts for discrepancies and reconcile differences.
- Report to management about asset utilization and audit results, and recommend changes in operations and financial activities.
- Examine and evaluate financial and information systems, recommending controls to ensure system reliability and data integrity.
- Review accounts for discrepancies and reconcile differences.
- Prepare adjusting journal entries.
- Prepare detailed reports on audit findings.
- Collect and analyze data to detect deficient controls, duplicated effort, extravagance, fraud, or non-compliance with laws, regulations, and management policies.
- Establish tables of accounts and assign entries to proper accounts.
- Audit payroll and personnel records to determine unemployment insurance premiums, workers' compensation coverage, liabilities, and compliance with tax laws.
- Conduct pre-implementation audits to determine if systems and programs under development will work as planned.
- Advise clients in areas such as compensation, employee health care benefits, the design of accounting or data processing systems, or long-range tax or estate plans.
- Report to management regarding the finances of establishment.
- Confer with company officials about financial and regulatory matters.
- Inspect cash on hand, notes receivable and payable, negotiable securities, and canceled checks to confirm records are accurate.
- Evaluate taxpayer finances to determine tax liability, using knowledge of interest and discount rates, annuities, valuation of stocks and bonds, and amortization valuation of depletable assets.
- Review taxpayer accounts, and conduct audits on-site, by correspondence, or by summoning taxpayer to office.
- Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting, or other tax requirements.
- Supervise auditing of establishments, and determine scope of investigation required.
- Examine whether the organization's objectives are reflected in its management activities, and whether employees understand the objectives.
- Examine inventory to verify journal and ledger entries.
- Examine and evaluate financial and information systems, recommending controls to ensure system reliability and data integrity.
- Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.
- Prepare adjusting journal entries.
- Develop, implement, modify, and document recordkeeping and accounting systems, making use of current computer technology.
- Represent clients before taxing authorities and provide support during litigation involving financial issues.
- Report to management about asset utilization and audit results, and recommend changes in operations and financial activities.
- Prepare, examine, or analyze accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
- Prepare, examine, or analyze accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
- Report to management about asset utilization and audit results, and recommend changes in operations and financial activities.
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