Skills to be an accountant?
hello all, well i would like to be an accountant. I have a C at gcse level maths i think if i done som revision and worked hard enough i could get a B or an A as i was 10 marks from a B to start with. Anyway what other skills would i need to be an accountant and is there a way to train these skills? i guess most accounts would be done on excel nowa days, is their a training program to show you what you would be doing in the job?
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You need to have a good knowledge of algebra skills. The truth is, although algebra rarely comes into play in real-life accounting, every accounting textbook I have ever seen tries to 'trip students up', so to speak, by making them rearrange equations and solve for the unknown variable(s). ---------------- Accounting is not so much about maths as it is about properly categorizing things. If you are good at and enjoy puzzles like jigsaws or crosswords, then accounting might be a good fit for you. However, I do want to mention that the subject involves concepts that you likely have never heard of yet: debits, credits, contra-accounts, depreciation, amortization, etc. If even reading those few words kind of freaks you out, well, maybe it won't be a good fit. ----------------- Oh yeah. No, many of us don't use excel anymore (at least for bookkeeping proper). There's plenty of specialized accounting programs like Quickbooks (which I have used for 20+ years and recommend) and Peachtree, for example. There's a whole bunch of other ones as well.
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