A Interview With Peg Breeding

One of the advantages to being a CPA within a large firm is that you have the opportunity to work in many areas of accounting for many varied company clients. This will give me a multifaceted experience level not easily obtained while working independently or for a smaller firm. I hope to have the opportunity to do some forensic accounting work where I would prove suspected embezzlement within a client’s company (S. Westfield, personal interview, August 1, 2008).

Certified Public Accountants handle a variety of jobs and task. They can offer tax income tax preparation and advise to range of clients including individuals, small businesses, and corporations. Some might choose to work as a forensic accountant to investigate accounting fraud that requires reviewing accounting reports, records and systems to expose any evidence of criminal activities. Other might choose a different path like consultation service, because they rather assist in financial matters with a private clients, not-for-profit organizations, government institutions and financial firms.

On Wednesday, February 24, 2016, I conducted an interview with Professor Clarissa Wilkerson, JD, CPA. As an accounting major, I am extremely interested in pursuing a career in accounting and am a student in Professor Wilkerson’s class. Her enthusiastic personality continues to inspire me to pursue a career in this field. After explaining my career goals and the details of this assignment, she gladly accepted when I asked if she would be willing to conduct an interview to help me complete this interview report. Professor Wilkerson received her Master’s degree in Taxation from Georgia State University. She is also a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA), and has considerable experience in the field of accounting. A few of the topics we discussed were: the importance of teamwork, the way technology is changing accounting, the value of understanding finance and economics in relation to accounting, and the usefulness of receiving a degree in accounting and earning a CPA license.

The profession of accounting is a one that is highly regulated, due to the knowledge and power each accountant possesses. Although an accountants duties differ from one position to the next, the main sectors that accountants pursue are auditing or taxation. Auditing is ensuring the public that the information listed on the financial statements of public companies is free of material misstatements. While taxation is helping people or companies file their tax returns to the federal government or offering tax advice. In the world of auditing, you either follow the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), for public company audits, or the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), for other entities

With every job, comes a task or responsibility to accomplish. Every employee has a particular duty to fulfill on a day-to-day basis – it’s what he/she constantly thinks about during the workday. What about the operations of a business that most employees do not think about all time? How does the company run efficiently? How is a worker’s worth determined based on compensation? What criteria did management utilize to choose the employees that work for them? In order to effectively answer these questions, that is where people like Dr. Kathy Hanisch come into play.

This post will discuss two ethical accounting dilemmas that could occur in the CPA profession. For each dilemma, it will explain how the dilemma could be resolved based on logic and reason. It will then support that proposed resolution through support from the American Institute of Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA) Code of Professional Conduct.

Texas CPAs are people who certified to practice public accounting in Texas. They act as a trusted financial advisor who helps individuals, business, and other organizations plan and reach their financial goal. The Texas State Board of Public Accountancy (TSBPA) ensure that every person meets specific eligibility requirements:

The CPA is there to help the business. In this case, the CPA was not the best, but the CPA could help with the financial process. Setting better controls, which would make his job then easier.

Hannah Bailey is a young, wild, and carefree teenager from a small town called Warsaw, Indiana. She attends Warsaw Community High School and she likes music, art, and photography. Majority of the students at the school are Caucasian and most of them are in cliques, relationships, and are somewhat popular. People call Hannah weird and say that she does not fit in with everyone. She wants to go to college in California to study film. Hannah lives with her grandmother because her mother suffers from depression and is not in the home, and her father works out of town in Ohio. Hannah’s boyfriend, Joel, is also a big part of her life. She spends a lot of her time with him. For Hannah, Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Development Theory can be used to help explain her adolescent life.

Many people here the word accounting and thinking of the big four accounting companies. Although accounting pertains to individuals as well, and there are many benefits to having a personal accountant. A personal accountant can help with personal finances like bills, mortgages , and luxuries. All financial decision big or small can have a huge impact on your future financial status, therefore having a personal accountant can limit the risk of making a financial mistake. How do you know when it is a good idea to invest in a personal accountant? There are a few questions that can be asked:

II. Main Point #2. Contrary to popular belief, Accountants, and the tasks that they perform, are an important part of most people’s everyday life.

Before she landed this job in early January, she had an extended seven months of crazy job searches. She said “It became scary that in seven months I couldn’t find a single marketing job to hire me. I knew it was competitive but not like this.” One day she went for then interview where she was interviewed by the head of the Human Resource from Century Bank. She said this interview was more of a formal interview where they asked the typical questions such as “ Tell me about yourself.” After a week, the head of the Marketing Paul called her and wanted to do

The first question I asked her was, “What are some things that you do on a day-to-day basis?” When answering I was able to learn that everyday is a different task for her. Most of the time she is working on the computer with GM for their different tasks. Since Ms. Poole is an accountant she works on the company finance and make sure the numbers are looking right. Around the beginning of the year is where it’s usually busy because it’s tax season. So there are a lot of things that happen with the company and her

Imagine trusting your hard-earned money like your retirement savings to a financial adviser or Certified Public Accountants (CPA) only to lose it all in a fraudulent Ponzi scheme. In today’s world of business many organizations, financial planners and accountants are in the news due to the financial ethical breaches that have affected their customers, employees, and the general public. A CPA has to be responsible for their audits and take any punishments as a result of their mistakes, incompetence or illegal actions. CPAs are expected to have integrity in their work,

What draws me into the field of accountancy? Why do I want to launch a career as a certified public accountant (CPA)? What is there about numbers, spreadsheets, profit and loss statements, audits, inventory and fiduciary responsibility that appeal me? In this paper I will describe in detail the reasons why I am attracted to this field. Also, what are the duties and responsibilities of a CPA? How available are job openings for a person with the education and experience to work as a CPA? How well to companies compensate those hired as CPAs? These questions and issues will be thoroughly reviewed in this paper.