📈Business & Finance
Accountant
Tracks an organization's money and assets
Responsible for tracking an organization's income, expenses, taxes and assets, and prepares financial statements.
What they do
- ▹Records every financial transaction of the organization in accounting software each day
- ▹Calculates staff salaries and withholds taxes and social contributions
- ▹Files tax and statistical reports by the deadline
- ▹Goes through tax authority inspections and prepares documents for them
Skills you need
- ▹Knowledge of Tajikistan's Tax Code
- ▹Working in 1C and other accounting software
- ▹Extreme precision — the numbers must balance to the somoni
- ▹Working under tight deadlines around reporting time
- ▹Responsibility for signing off on documents
Focus on these subjects at school
Mathematics
Where they work
- ▹Accounting departments of private companies and sole proprietors
- ▹Government institutions and schools
- ▹Large enterprises (dedicated accounting department)
- ▹Accounting and audit outsourcing firms
Pros
- + Every organization, from a shop to a ministry, needs this role
- + Can start at a small business and work up to handling accounts for large companies
Challenges
- − A reporting mistake gets fined at the organization, not just noted against the accountant
- − Heavy workload at the end of each quarter and year when accounts close
Programs that lead to this profession
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