Accounting require you to be careful because the accountants always work directly with the numbers and accounting books. They are important documents before the law, they show the financial situation of the company and accountants are persons who do them. Many jobs permit you have the mistakes, you can repair them but accounting is never. If you have a mistake, you can’t undo it.
Accountants are honest persons and good at accounting knowledge. They usually work with money of the enterprise. So, they must have the honesty with a lot of people and themselves. It is dangerous if they are lie persons. The economy is volatile, the government must also change the policies to suit and Vietnamese accounting law have many changes in the short time.. So they also often update their necessary knowledge.
How do you want to become the perfect accountant?
I think anyone also expect to become the sucessful person in life. With accountant, you need to be good at accounting. This is the result of the practice on the documents , accounting books and practical experience of your work. They shouldn’t stop learning predecessors to get more experience for them and they should take the initiative, creativity to advise leaders can make the right decision.
Second , you must be proficient using Microsoft Office such as Excel , Access ... and you know how to use accounting software if you want to succeed in this job. You can’t learn all of the accounting software on the market but you should know the basics of the Vietnamese accounting software commonly.
Third, besides information technology, the accountant also need good foreign language can be English or Chinese.. to be able to communicate with customers and partners