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Welcome to Careers In Accounting! This site is designed to help you find a rewarding and interesting j
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b in the world of accounting. You will find some of the best info on the "net on fields like public accounting, tax, auditing and managerial accounting. You will also find links to quite a few other sites and some great books.
Thinking About an Accounting Career?
Recommend Books on Jobs in Accounting
Build Your Professional Bookshelf
Other Career Sites
Accounting Resources
Associations
Accounting, Behavior, and Organizations Section of the AAA
Access the ABO Reporter, contents and abstracts to the Behaviorial Research in Accounting, Working Paper Series, and information about conferences.
American Accounting Association
Access information about AAA, sections/regions, and various publications.
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Locate information about the AICPA, online publications, state news and information, and taxation topics.
European Accounting Association
Locate current news, general information, and information about EAA conferences.
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
Access Institute news, services to members, publishing, courses and conferences, and services to the public.
Institute of Internal Auditors
Access information about the IIA, services, trianing, and publications.
Internal Auditing World Wide Web
Internet resources of interest to auditors.
Information about recruiting, industry programs, industry forecasts, and services offered.
Locate information aboutthe company and services provided.
Locate special reports, information resources (including career opportunities), published articles, and the KPMG Virtual Library of reports. The latter is a great source for information including the Survey of Economic Expectations and the Business Advisory Review, a newsletter tailored to entrepreneurs and owner-managers.
Under the heading "Insights and Solutions" locate documents dealing with perspectives and issues. Also locate information about career opportunities.
Related Occupations
Accountants and auditors design internal control systems and analyze financial data. Others for whom training in accounting is valuable include budget analysts; cost estimators; loan officers; financial analysts and personal financial advisors; tax examiners, collectors, and revenue agents; bill and account collectors; and bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks. Recently, accountants have assumed the role of management analysts and are involved in the design, implementation, and maintenance of accounting software systems. Others who perform similar work include computer programmers, computer software engineers, and computer support specialists and systems administrators.
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If you want to succeed in business, you need to know about financial management. No matter how skilled you are at creating a product, providing a service, or marketing your wares, the money you earn will slip between your fingers if you don"t know how to efficiently collect it, keep track of it, save it, and spend or invest it wisely.
Poor financial management is one of the leading reasons that businesses fail. In many cases, failure could have been avoided if the owners had applied sound financial principles to all their dealings and decisions. Financial management is not something that you can leave to your banker, financial planner, or accountant — you need to understand the basic principles yourself and use them on a daily basis, even if you plan to leave the more complicated work to hired professionals.
In this module we"ll outline the basic concepts of financial management, as they apply to small business owners, starting with the simplest, everyday bookkeeping tasks and moving on to more sophisticated concepts:
FASB/FASAB/GASB
Financial Accounting Standards Board
Facts about the FASB, announcements, technical projects, exposure drafts, FASB Casebook, summaries and and status of all FASB statements.
Government Accounting Standards Board
Access the standards through this source:
1. GASB Website: Access summaries and status of all GASB Statements and Interpretations, Exposure Drafts, and board meetings.
GAO Government Auditing Standards (Yellow Book)
"This document contains standards for audits of government organizations, programs, activities, and functions, and of government assistance received by contractors, nonprofit organizations, and other nongovernment organizations." Also available in paper: GA 1.2:AU 2/14/994.
The Independence Standards Board (ISB) is the private sector standard-setting body governing the independence of auditors from their public company clients. This site will provide access to exposure drafts, final pronouncements, consensuses, and staff interpretations.
International Accounting Network
Provides access to accounting materials for scholars, practitioners, educators, and students. Includes educational materials and documents from the American Accounting Association.
Journals and Scholarly Publications
American Accounting Association Publications
Access the AAA Newsletter, The Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, Issues in Education Accounting, and other newsletters and journals.
Current and historical full-text articles.
GAO Report: Accounting Profession-Major Issues: Progress and Concerns
The GAO"s "ives were to identify (1) recommendations made from 1972 through 1995 to improve accounting and auditing standards and the performance of independent audits under the federal securities laws and the actions taken on those recommendations and (2) any unresolved issues to determine their impact on the performance of independent audits, effective accounting and auditing standards setting, and efforts to expand the scope of business reporting and audit services." On the GAO page, move to the report number field. Enter "aimd-96-98" for the full-text report and "aimd-96-98a" for the appendixes to the report. Be sure to use the quotation marks. Documents are available in ASCII or .PDF formats.
Access summaries of papers in recent issues in PDF and MS Word formats.
