What is the potential for employment or for growth and advancement? Just look at some of the career areas you can explore:
- Assurance services – auditing company financial statements, providing internet security consulting, measuring and evaluating business performance, assisting the elderly and their families with personal management
- Consulting services – providing objective advice and assistance to individuals, businesses, financial institutions, government agencies and not-for-profit organizations
- Information technology services – designing and implementing advanced information systems to fit an organization's needs
- Environmental services – with increasing public interest in the environment, conducting compliance audits and designing systems to ensure compliance
- Forensic services – handling accounting investigations or fraud auditing by examining accounting records, searching for evidence of misconduct and seeking the hiding places of misappropriated assets
- International accounting services – helping business cope with a global economy by understanding and mastering international trade laws and regulations
- Tax and financial planning – working with individuals and companies on matters relating to financial planning, mergers and acquisitions, investments and taxes.