Career Opportunities

Accountants play a key role on the management team in most organizations. Accountants serve as chief financial officers, controllers, internal auditors, treasurers, cost analysts, budget directors, tax analysts, tax agents, systems analysts and consultants. Their understanding of the internal operations of an organization often serves as an excellent basis for progressing to executive positions.

What you should know

The career skills needed by accountants have been greatly influenced by technological change and the globalization of trade. Since computers have become the primary processors of data, the accountant’s job has become that of consultant, helping to identify the organization’s information needs, interpreting accounting information and using accounting information to make decisions about the future.