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An accountant has many choices regarding what particular field of accounting to specialize in, depending on the financial information he or she wants to analyze and how it is done. Financial accountants, tax accountants and internal auditors are all accountants in general but require different training and work methods. A financial accountant records economic data and periodically prepares reports that show profit and other financial information of a company using the generally accepted accounting principles. The reports prepared by the accountant are useful for managers, and also for owners, creditors and the public. Based on information in the reports, the public can use the reports to choose a company to invest in. Because a financial accountant is employed by an individual company, he or she is considered a private accountant. Accountants have career choices to make based on more specialized interests in a field, and, as with other careers, a different specialization will have different educational requirements. Different classes will need to be taken in order to gain enough knowledge in the general field plus several other classes on a similar topic when the accountant decides what to specialize in. Accounting may not seem like a popular profession, or a very interesting one, but once one looks deep into the separate activities and training of each specialization, on can see that accounting may appeal to many different types of A unexpected fact I found about accounting is that 90 percent of all CEO's have a background in accounting. There is a good outlook for accounts, more than 300,000 new jobs in accounting and auditing expected by the year 2005 and a faster than average growth is expected over the next ten years. Salary and status, increase with time and range widely on location, job experience, and job description. A graduate makes about 28,000 plus overtime. A experienced accountant in a major firm get 30,000 to 40,000. A manager salary ranges from 40,000 to 80,000. A CPA ( Certified Public Accountant) make between 100,000 and 200,000. A CPA need to take extra test giving by the state and has to have two years of experience in public accounting. Accounting has been mainly white men but last year 57% of new hiring were women. In the accounting profession, there is very little writing that takes place in a working environment. This aspect of accounting is attractive to me because I am not a big fan of a lot of writing but as in every profession there is still writing that is done. Before the time of computers all accounting was done by hand in books, which isn’t really actually writing, but still required allot more time and hand cramps. When keeping the records of a business you need to write footnotes clarifying what numbers were used and the formula used to create your answer. When interviewing Diana Forshee, the co-owner and financial accountant of Four Wheel Auto Supply, she opened my eyes to some important things to know when writing in the workplace. She said that it is very important to have good memo’s to other people in the business. It is important to have correct grammar, spelling, and the ability to write your message clearly so that another colleague can easily understand the point you are trying to get across. She also says that there are not many places to use writing skills in this profession but still that it is important to know how to write well because of the image it promotes. She remembers when she would be in a meeting and other people would laugh and make fun of someone. if something were worded wrong and words were misspelled because it made them sound uneducated. While she no longer works at a firm, she once did accounting for the city of St. Louis. She was not fond of the working condition in her office. People usually work alone on different projects and sat at computers and worked long hours, especially during I want to go to a four year school after my time here and then get my CPA. I hope you have learned something new about this profession I’m hopefully going to earn my Bibliography: Word Count: 743
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