Accounting Exploration Career

Accounting Exploration Career When people talk about accountant, CPA might be the first word that comes out in the mind. It is true that CPA is the most familiar type of accounting work for most of people. However, accountant is a person who works in accounting area. And accounting includes plenty of different types of jobs. The diversity in accounting attracts my interest and makes me decide to major in it. Since accounting contains many different kinds of works, it offers lots of chances to learn different areas in the economic system and even the whole world market. Lots of choices of different jobs is not the only reason that I am interested in being an accountant. Accountant is also a person who does his job in capital operation. Capital operation is a high level in the market economy system. And accountant is the job that could let me reach the high level. All these benefits are only personal; there are benefits for the society. There are many carriers for accounting in government departments. Accountants could help people and even the government to manage the money. To sum up, accountant is a job that could bring me satisfaction in material and spiritual. • Because of the great benefits from being an accountant, there are many steps to become an accountant. First of all is the degree that is required. For example, to become a CPA, most of the states in the United States will require 150 credit hours from college. (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants: http://www.aicpa.org/BecomeACPA/GettingStarted/Pages/default.aspx). From the degree, we can study the basic skills of accounting. And this is just the first step. Except the basic skills, as an accountant, he has to have the ability of analysis, judgment and crisis management. The ability of analysis could help an accountant organize all the information. It is an ability that gets the important information from plenty of resources. Then the accountant must make the decisions that