Occupation Atlasaccountant
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/eda0d957-3c3c-4139-b89a-a18bc9e18897
accountant
Accountants review and analyse financial statements, budgets, financial reports, and business plans in order to check for irregularities resulting from error or fraud, and provide their clients with financial advice in matters such as financial forecasting and risk analysis. They may audit financial data, resolve insolvency cases, prepare tax returns and provide other tax-related advice in reference to current legislation.
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Job Zone
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Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
CEIConventional · Enterprising · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order
- C Conventional7.00
- E Enterprising3.87
- I Investigative3.57
- S Social2.13
- R Realistic1.14
- A Artistic1.08
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Accountants and Auditors (13-2011.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (26)
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
- accounting techniques
- analyse financial performance of a company
- attach accounting certificates to accounting transactions
- bookkeeping regulations
- calculate tax
- check accounting records
- commercial law
- depreciation
- draft accounting procedures
- ensure compliance with accounting conventions
- explain accounting records
- financial department processes
- financial statements
- follow the statutory obligations
- fraud detection
- identify accounting errors
- interpret financial statements
- manage accounts
- perform balance sheet operations
- prepare financial statements
- prepare tax returns forms
- prepare trial accounting balances
- statistics
- tax legislation
Optional (31)
- advise on financial matters
- advise on risk management
- calculate production costs
- check the production schedule
- conduct financial audits
- consult with motion picture producer
- consult with production director
- disseminate information on tax legislation
- evaluate budgets
- exert expenditure control
- film production process
- financial forecasting
- handle financial transactions
- insolvency law
- international financial reporting standards
- keep track of expenses
- liaise with auditors
- liquidity management
- manage budgets
- manage corporate bank accounts
- manage inventory
- manage payroll reports
- manage revenue
- monitor after sales records
- national generally accepted accounting principles
- perform cost accounting activities
- perform dunning activities
- perform risk analysis
- prepare financial auditing reports
- resolve difficult account allocation cases
- support development of annual budget
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 26 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
accounting manager
15 shared · 18 more of its owndepreciation, draft accounting procedures, explain accounting records, accounting entries
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bookkeeper
14 shared · 4 more of its ownperform balance sheet operations, prepare trial accounting balances, depreciation, attach accounting certificates to accounting transactions
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accounting assistant
11 shared · 9 more of its ownprepare trial accounting balances, depreciation, attach accounting certificates to accounting transactions, identify accounting errors
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financial controller
10 shared · 7 more of its ownexplain accounting records, ensure compliance with accounting conventions, accounting department processes, financial department processes
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accounting analyst
10 shared · 8 more of its owndraft accounting procedures, explain accounting records, accounting entries, check accounting records
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financial manager
10 shared · 28 more of its ownaccounting entries, prepare tax returns forms, accounting department processes, financial department processes
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tax clerk
7 shared · 6 more of its ownprepare tax returns forms, calculate tax, bookkeeping regulations, fraud detection
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financial auditor
6 shared · 16 more of its ownaccounting entries, check accounting records, accounting department processes, financial department processes
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