02-16-2003, 06:08 AM
Accountants are definitely not the boring bean counters they are often portrayed as. As with lawyers, they have acquired a range of useful skills through formal education, specific training, and subsequent experience that places them in an incredibly wide range of jobs--jobs that are not only well-paying, but definitely not boring. Forensic accounting, for example, is so absorbingly interesting and even exciting, that it makes Sherlock Holmes being chased around by the Hound of the Baskervilles seem mundane by comparison.
Accountants are involved in a far broader range of activities than just doing your taxes. And if you equate accountancy with book keeping, think again--it's whole different ball game. The forensic accountants, for example, may be engaged in public practice or employed by insurance companies, banks, police forces, government agencies, and many other organizations. They are routinely involved in
- Investigation and analysis of financial evidence
- Development of computerized applications to assist in the analysis and presentation of financial evidence
- Communication of their findings in the form of reports, exhibits and collections of documents
- Assistance in legal proceedings, including testifying in court as an expert witness and preparing visual aids to support trial evidence
Accountants are involved in a far broader range of activities than just doing your taxes. And if you equate accountancy with book keeping, think again--it's whole different ball game. The forensic accountants, for example, may be engaged in public practice or employed by insurance companies, banks, police forces, government agencies, and many other organizations. They are routinely involved in
- Investigation and analysis of financial evidence
- Development of computerized applications to assist in the analysis and presentation of financial evidence
- Communication of their findings in the form of reports, exhibits and collections of documents
- Assistance in legal proceedings, including testifying in court as an expert witness and preparing visual aids to support trial evidence
