Occupation Atlasaccounting manager
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/04f39bfa-bc03-4480-98bc-b18ce4fe4b4b
accounting manager
Accounting managers assume responsibility for all accounting activities relating to financial reporting. They develop and maintain accounting principles and procedures to ensure timely and accurate financial statements, supervise accounting staff and manage the accounting activities within the appropriate time frame and budget.
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Typically associated skills
Essential (33)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- accounting department processes
- accounting entries
- analyse financial performance of a company
- analyse market financial trends
- check accounting records
- corporate social responsibility
- create a financial plan
- depreciation
- draft accounting procedures
- enforce financial policies
- ensure compliance with accounting conventions
- ensure compliance with disclosure criteria of accounting information
- evaluate budgets
- explain accounting records
- financial analysis
- financial department processes
- financial management
- financial statements
- follow company standards
- follow the statutory obligations
- fraud detection
- identify if a company is a going concern
- integrate strategic foundation in daily performance
- international financial reporting standards
- interpret financial statements
- manage accounts
- manage budgets
- monitor financial accounts
- national generally accepted accounting principles
- strive for company growth
- supervise accounting operations
- support development of annual budget
- tax legislation
Optional (29)
- advise on bankruptcy proceedings
- advise on financial matters
- advise on public finance
- advise on tax planning
- attach accounting certificates to accounting transactions
- bookkeeping regulations
- calculate tax
- disseminate information on tax legislation
- evaluate employees
- financial forecasting
- forecast organisational risks
- global standards for sustainability reporting
- inform on fiscal duties
- liaise with auditors
- liaise with financiers
- liaise with managers
- liquidity management
- make strategic business decisions
- manage staff
- manage the general ledger
- perform account allocation
- perform cost accounting activities
- perform dunning activities
- plan health and safety procedures
- prepare financial auditing reports
- prepare financial statements
- prepare tax returns forms
- public finance
- statistics
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