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Accounting is the study of how businesses track their income and assets over time. Accountants engage in a wide variety of activities besides preparing financial statements and recording business transactions. These include computing costs, gaining efficiency from new technologies, participating in strategies for mergers and acquisitions, quality management, dev
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When my Mom first entered college she had no idea that she was going to turn out to be an accountant. Whereas public accounting is more involved in the collecting and external reporting of financial information, private accounting is more involved in the internal use of financial information to help managers within the company make more effective business decisions. Most often, career paths in public accounting are either in audit or tax. Accounting is a very good occupation and I might look into it after college.
Career opportunities in accounting fall most broadly into two categories: public and private. The task of audit professionals-as the word implies-is to carefully and rigorously audit and document all the financial records and business transactions of their clients. They can either go in a private or public company and both have their pros and their cons. My mother is a good example of one who started in public accounting and moved into private accounting.
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