Well, we are very familiar with accountant staff job. But, there are some people who still wonder about this job description. Generally, they think that this kind of job will be linked to the accounting activities. For your information, this an accountant will work for the accounting of firms and public documents like the incomes of tax returns, financial statements, and monthly reports.

They will also work under the controller, certified public accountants controller. Then, maintaining financial records, reports, and general ledgers will be also their duties. After that, they can analyze and prepare budgets and perform the general bookkeeping. In fact, there are also some of them who are responsible for billing performance like accounts payable and receivable.

So, here are some duties and responsibilities that will be handled by an accountant:

1. Prepares the external financial and consolidated internal statements by collecting and analyzing the information from the system of general ledger and also departments.
2. Maintains and keeps the balance of an automated consolidation system by using the input data system, verifying data, and scheduling needed job.
3. Analyzes option and information by developing the reports ob spreadsheet and also verifies the information.
4. Maintains the record and files and reconciles the account to prepare manager ladder entries.
5. Accrues expenses, assigns the account numbers, requests the disbursements, and reconciles the accounts to prepare the payments.
6. Analyzes advances procedures and recommends changes to implement and develop the accounting procedure.
7. Researches and interprets data to answer the accounting and some questions of financial system.
8. Reviews financial information, converts data to the system of general ledger, obtains supplementary information to provide accounting supports for the acquisitions and mergers and prepare the financial information.
9. Keep the information confidential to protect the value of organization.
10. Participates in educational opportunities, reads the professional publication, maintains the personal networks, and participate the professional organizations to update the job knowledge.
11. Completes the related results as required to accomplish the accounting and the mission of organizations.
12. Maintains the schedules.
13. Provides the support of telephone.
14. Fills and transcripts the form production.
15. Prepares the tax returns and the statements of financial.
16. Accounts the firms and represent clients in order to pertain to their financial affairs.

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