Suggestions to Improve the City Accounting Department

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As a general overview, this paper will cover the challenges of the Accounting Department at the City of Menlo Park. The interest of this short essay or paper lies in the interest on the impact of my future career goals and other personal plans. In my career as an Accountant in a private sector, I worked for many different companies. The difficulty and usual economic instability of private sector had my career goals on a stand-by and merits based on hard-work is often found unrecognizable. Finding a steady job in the competitive private sector was difficult and unrewarding. Therefore, I turned to the public or government workplace to see if I can set my path there. At first, I was indifferent to the type of environment public sector offers, but I quickly changed my perspective as soon as I was offered a job to work for the City of Menlo Park.

Through the process of writing this essay, I am hoping to be able to diagnose and identify the issues that exist in my work place. I am looking to find the causes of the existing challenges that we are currently going through. If I can find the root cause of the issues, I would like to make an effort to improve the working conditions in our department and maybe it’s contagious enough to affect other department. I am very optimistic that this project can help me prepare an action plan to resolve some of the issues which exist in my job. I would really like to create a long term positive outlook in the organization where I hope to end my career in.

In search of stability, I was fortunate to find a job in the City of Menlo Park as a Principal Accountant. In my opinion, I do think that government job is more stable and the long term financial reward is better. However, I woul...

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...asoning of his decision. This will create the transparency and openness that is needed in making the decision. Employees does not have to agree with your decision but at least the will know the reasoning behind it.

In conclusion, a clear vision needs to be communicated by the leader of an organization. Leadership can be at any level of the organization.

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