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One of the areas that I encountered in my career as an auditor is this animal know as CAATS. It’s not the meow-meow animal we all know and love but CAATs is an acronym to refer to Computer-assisted audit techiques or audit tools. Continue reading
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It’s interesting to note that I have received a couple of emails from readers asking for advice about careers in accounting and the fields of study they should be doing if they want to pursue a career as an accountant.
I thought I’ll write more about it in my series on Diary of a CPA to flesh out the day to day adventures of being an accountant or internal auditor. Continue reading
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What is your stereotypical view of a Certified Public Accountant?
Someone who is meticulous in figures? Likes to dot every ‘i’ and cross every ‘t’? Someone who is obsessed in ensuring that debits = credits?
Or is the accountant someone who has every won a table-topics trophy at the division level, who has spoken at more than half-a-dozen conferences and seminars and who writes a couple of blogs in his spare time? Continue reading
I talked a little bit about how I managed to join the accounting profession even though I didn’t start out with such an intent when I was in Junior College. Sometimes when you look back at the choices you make in life, the context in which the decisions are made can be based on just one or two remarks by key people in your life.
Context of a CPA
So what does a CPA do to earn his daily bread? In general, the accounting profession allows you to move into three distinct areas: accounting, audit and tax. In reality, audit and tax are relatively narrow in focus and you can specialise in these tracks. Continue reading