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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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]