Accountant

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Job Information

• Job Title: Accountant
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Tasks

• 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.
• Report to management regarding the finances of establishment.
• Maintain or examine the records of government agencies.
• Establish tables of accounts and assign entries to proper accounts.
• 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.
• Develop, implement, modify, and document recordkeeping and accounting systems, making use of current computer technology.
• Develop, maintain, and analyze budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.
• Provide internal and external auditing services for businesses or individuals.
• Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations, to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.
• Advise management about issues such as resource utilization, tax strategies, and the assumptions underlying budget forecasts.
• Represent clients before taxing authorities and provide support during litigation involving financial issues.
• Prepare forms and manuals for accounting and bookkeeping personnel, and direct their work activities.
• Appraise, evaluate, and inventory real property and equipment, recording information such as the description, value and location of property.
• Survey operations to ascertain accounting needs and to recommend, develop, or maintain solutions to business and financial problems.

Work Activities

• Interacting With Computers
  - Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
• Processing Information
  - Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
• Getting Information
  - Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
  - Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
  - Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• Analyzing Data or Information
  - Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
  - Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
• Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
  - Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Making Decisions and Solving Problems
  - Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
  - Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
• Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
  - Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Documenting/Recording Information
  - Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
• Communicating with Persons Outside Organization
  - Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
• Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others
  - Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
• Performing Administrative Activities
  - Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.

Skills

• Service Orientation
  - Actively looking for ways to help people.
• Coordination
  - Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
• Speaking
  - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Critical Thinking
  - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Monitoring
  - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Management of Personnel Resources
  - Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
• Time Management
  - Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Social Perceptiveness
  - Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why…