Being a food service accountant is a rewarding job that comes with a lot of responsibility. It’s a job that requires one person to be the financial watchdog over the whole food service operation at any particular Air Force base. The food service accountant has to review all financial records, such as purchase order documents, inventory sheets, and waste logs; and then prepare reports to send up to the Services Agency to report on the facility’s financial status. One person can be the accountant for multiple facilities and the entire Air Force is counting on this individual to catch any major signs of wasteful spending from the facilities that the accountant is responsible for overseeing. Individuals lucky enough to get selected for this position are usually handpicked and have a proven record of responsibility and great attention to detail. Being a food service accountant is a privilege with rewarding benefits that most of the people assigned to the same duty section do not get the opportunity to enjoy. One advantage of being the food service accountant is a convenient, ideal work schedule. Most of the people that work at food service facilities work odd hours such as 4:00am to 1:00pm, 2:00pm to 11:00pm, or 10:00pm to 7:00am. Working the odd hours that shift workers work makes it difficult to get things done outside of work during normal business hours. Shift workers often find that businesses and facilities are closed after work and are only open during hours that he or she needs to sleep and get rest for the next work period. On the other hand, accountants normally work Monday through Friday, from 7:30am to 4:30pm. It is much easier to deposit money at the bank on a lunch break or pay bills after work on an accountant’s work schedule than with a 10:00pm to 7:00am shift. The 7:30am to 4:30pm shift that the accountant works is also great for individuals with children because those hours are considered normal business hours and provides the most options when it comes to choosing daycare. Another benefit of being the accountant is the fact that it only takes three hours to complete the daily workload. Most of the employees working at the dining facility barely have enough time to complete all of the daily tasks; whereas, the accountant has enough time to complete all daily tasks and more. The accountant can use this slow portion of the shift to maximize personal and professional potential by enrolling in college classes, volunteering for base activities, completing any needed training, or studying for any upcoming promotional tests.
Medical Administrative Assistants have numerous of duties in an office setting. Medical Administrative Assistants can get a job in a doctor office or a hospital. Medical Assistants work more in the front of office and hospital assisting patients and checking them in. By knowing some Medical Assistants I know some of their duties are: scheduling patients, greeting patients, doing paper work, handling insurance problems or statements, and also supervising entry. Medical Administrative Assistants may be asked to do take the patient height or blood pressure. Medical assistants are sometime asked to buy the medical equipment needed in the office. When needed they may also work as the office manager. They conduct the doctor's schedule and type letters and bills (Occupational Outlook Handbook). Accounting has an enormous role in this field such as handling the insurance procedures and billing statements. Billing statements are responsibilities that a patient has gathered overtime. Having a great attitude is very much needed as a medical assistant because that job is in the customer service field. It is the medical assistant’s duty to take care of the fees in a medical facility therefore, knowing how to do accounting is a must know. Some of the duties involve collecting payments from the patient, tracking records of all the payments collected and filing forms out to take action against patients that have not made payments in a long time or just none at all that is why accounting is very important in this job. Accounting is recording financial relations, storing, organizing, retrieving, and presenting information in numerous reports which all goes back to one of the duties of a medical administration assis...
Over one million people are employed as accountants, and most can be found in private business and industry. “Nearly 40 percent of all accountants are certified, and about 10 percent are self-employed’(Caruna, 1). In addition to openings resulting from growth, the need to replace accountants who retire or transfer to other occupations will produce thousands of job opening annually in this large occupation. The Occupational Outlook Handbook states that the expansion of accountants is related to: “increasingly complex taxation, growth in both the size and the number of business corporations required to release financial reports to stockholders, a more general use of accounting in the management of business, and outsourcing of a...
To get the CPA you have to have 150 hours in a college in order to be able to take the exam. Usually the accounting degree is about 124 hour so what people usually do is either double major or have a minor in something or get there master degree in accounting so they can get there 150 hours to take their exam. There are four different parts to this exam which are: Financial, Auditing, Regulation and Business. Depending on who you talk to for when you should take the CPA exam it could be right after college or after two years of working for a firm. Also you have 18 months to complete the rest of the exams and if you fail a part of the exam you have to retake
You will also notice in my resume that I have experience with being an accounting assistant that included, time keeping, correcting any time discrepancy, payroll, printing payroll checks, payroll taxes and A/R, A/P. I have also been involved in providing employees training on new computer software programs.
Firstly, to be professional would bring trusts from others. Andy was precise in dealing with the tax declaring and it has brought much convenience for others. It was the foundation for his reputation and possibility of freedom. Secondly, even though professional skills could help the illegal affairs, and there are many reports about the dark side of being an accountant, for instance it would be easy for them to choose illegal activities in cheating on the origin of the money, the accountants could still choose to be just and noble. Even forced to do the illegal affairs, Andy would choose to take it as an evidence to fight the law breakers. Thirdly, an accountant could do favor to society with the fund raising willingness and skills. It is a job that could help the society to make progress. With persistence of the fund raise outcome, Andy had been written to the government every week, and it was the persistent that owned by the accountant that helped the prison to gain financial support for the rebuilding of the
There are many careers that have a focus on accounting. The most common is a general accountant. Primary duties include preparing and analyzing the accounting records for a business or individual. (O*Net Online Accountants, 2016) Additionally, accountants will generally prepare tax filings
This paper will discuss these steps in detail. Because I work at home, I am not currently involved in any of the steps of the accounting cycle. The examples I give in this paper will be from various jobs I have held in the past.
With a career in accounting comes numerous work conditions and tasks. Accountants study financial data, use cost benefit analysis techniques, and obey tax laws and regulations. Working at home or in offices can be expected, as well as fast-paced, sometimes stressful, work. Most accountants work alone, occasionally working in teams. Accountants figure taxes to turn in on time and confirm correctness. Gauging financial data, determining ...
Today, with businesses facing increasingly competitive markets and unprecedented customer demands for services, the employment of workers in shifts to cover a 24-hour day is increasing. In fact, one in five workers is hired to work outside the typical 9-to-5 time slot ("No More Nine-to-Five" 1998). Manufacturing companies have traditionally operated day and night, often to capitalize on equipment usage. However, many other types of companies are now offering their services around the clock, e.g., financial services, 24-hou...
Typically those who follow careers in accounting or business analytics tend to work long hours in semi-stressful situations. Obviously the level of this fully depends on the actual specific situation, but in general this is just how it is. I have accepted this fact because this is the career path that I
In particular the adoption of the International Accounting Standard has made the profession more challenging. Accounting is an extremely complex activity with substantial ethical implications which have changed over the last century. Accountants are increasingly becoming an important part of successful business teams. This is because they understand the language of money and a company's complex financial situation better than any other employees. The job outlook for Accountants and auditors seems promising for those still in college with a major in Finance or Accounting. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2014), there is a projection of 13 percent growth for 2012 to 2022 for the employment of accountants and auditors. There are few issues that will hinder prospective acc...
This time is spent completing bookkeeping tasks which include the recording of financial transactions, posting of debits and credits, production of invoices, maintenance and balance of subsidiaries, general ledgers, and historical accounts and completion of payroll.
The job environment for an accountant would be mostly done in a typical office setting (“Accountants and Auditors”). Some people may be able to work from their homes, or if the business has more than one facility they might have to travel to the different facilities (“Accountants and Auditors”). The typical hours for an accountant depend on what type of accounting they do. The normal hours for a week are between 40-50 hours, but a tax & financial and auditors may put in 70 hours in a week (“Welcome to Careers in Accounting”). Individuals would also be working as a team with others on an important account or on financial statements (“Welcome to Careers in Accounting”).
The field of accounting is a field of work where there is the availability of high work demands and work pressures. This chapter puts forward suggestions which can be considered for improving work life balance.
Accounting is one of the fastest growing fields in the United States It expands each time a new store, a factory, a filling station, or a school goes up, whether in a large city or a small town. In today's society, the demand for good accountants for exceeds the supply. As our country has expanded, business and industry have become more and more complex, so control here is very important. And control depends on a great deal of the bookkeepers and accountants who can analyze figues and advise management on what should be done. They are using more scientific ways changing money, figuring change, and collecting sales taxes. Moreover, department stores and other companies now have plants and offices widely scattered throughout the country. A new set of bookkeepers and accountants, is needed at each branch. I know there are many managements supervisory, and junior or senior executive positions are bing filled by people who started as accountants because accountants have the knowledge of methods and finance and comprehension of the fundamentals of business, and acc...