Do numbers beckon to you? Are you good with all matters concerning money and finances? If so, perhaps you should check out this list of accounting careers to get a load of various options that match your talent!
The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant.
― Jonathan Glancey (British Journalist)
Well, I would say that is not too far from the practical truth! Indeed, a negligible juggling of numbers, an insignificant tampering of a couple of 0s and the entire financial picture of an undertaking can assume a drastically different look!
Well, sinister jokes apart, the term accounting includes a lot of different professions and career options which have one basic thing in common - the challenge of managing and manipulating financial figures!
Be it in the field of investments, stocks and shares, audit, cost analysis, tax planning, or public accounting, there is always a lot of opportunity for individuals who are driven my numbers and who have a penchant for managing money.
Talking about opportunity in this field, here's a list of accounting careers that you might want to take a look at if you're planning on taking a plunge into the ocean of balance sheets and intend to spend a good amount of time in exploring the depths of financial statements. Oh, and did I tell you that these jobs pay attractively?
List of Careers
The following list of careers includes profiles from a lot of different types of accounting careers that may range from drawing up, analyzing, investigating, and managing financial information to keeping vigilance over the same. Here is a list of various similar, related as well as diverse and unrelated options to choose from if money really does talk to you!
Financial Accountant
Management Accountant
Cost Accountant
Auditors
Actuaries
Tax Analysts
Tax Planning Executives
Loan Officers
Debt Planners
Budget Analysts
Brokerage Clerks
Cashiers
Claims Adjusters
Economist (needs to have a degree in economics, mathematics, and accounting or econometrics)
Debt Counselors
Financial Analysts
Investment Bankers
Investment Managers
Custodian Bankers
Reconciliation Analysts (this profile is common in investment and custodian banks as well as foreign exchange trading enterprises)
Insurance Sales Agents
Insurance Account Managers
Financial Services Officers and Sales Agents (the latter often being known asRelationship OfficersorAcquisition Executives)
Insurance Underwriters
Valuation Officers/Executives (especially important for valuation of a company's stock or a company's net worth during time of dissolution or liquidation)
Securities and Commodities Sales Agents
Tax Inspectors
Revenue Agents
Forensic Accountant
Tax Auditors
Payroll Analyst
Cost Accounting Director
Investment Accountant
Foreign Exchange Analyst
Corporate Finance
Financial Planning for Corporates
Public Accounting Practices (you need to be a Certified Public Accountant to be eligible for these public practice profiles)
Chartered Financial Analyst (you can either join or establish your own CA consulting services firm if you're a formally qualified CA)
Chartered Accountant (you can either join or establish your own CA consulting services firm if you're a formally qualified CA)
Accounts Research Analyst
Financial and Equity Researcher
Professor of Accounting (this is a well-paying position and most management schools are more than glad to offer this to well qualified individuals)
Government Accountant (yes, even the government needs these wizards to plan and manage all those budgets, national incomes and expenditures, debts and draw up annual balance of payments!)
Stock Market Executives
These careers involving accounting are pretty lucrative, especially so when you gain about a couple of years of experience in any of them. Well, here's a little something for you to ponder upon! Any idea,which is the most prestigious, lucrative, and imposing of all finance-and-accounting jobs in the world? Anyone?
Well, what do you think about the Finance Minister's (Secretary of the Treasury in the U.S.) profile? Is there any finance/accounting career which is more imposing, more lucrative, and involves more responsibility than that of the Finance Minister? However, it's an altogether different fact that not everyone can apply for this post!