An accountant:

• Analyses operations, trends, co-sts, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations incurred, to project future revenues and expenses, using computer.

• Predicts revenues and expenditures and submits reports to managements.

• Surveys establishment operations to ascertain accounting needs.

• Computes taxes owed, ensures compliance with tax payment, reporting, and other tax requirements, and represents establishment before taxing authority.

• Directs activities of workers performing accounting and bookkeeping tasks.

• Adapts accounting and record-keeping functions to current technology

of computerised accounting systems.

• Appraises, evaluates, and inventories real property and equipment and records description, value, location, and other information.

• Prepares forms and

manuals for workers performing accounting and bookkeeping tasks.

• Audits contracts and prepares reports to substantiate transactions prior to settlement.

• Establishes table of accounts and assigns entries to proper accounts.

• Develops, implements, modifies, and documents budgeting, cost, general, property, and tax accounting systems.

• Develops, maintains, and analyzes budgets and prepares periodic reports comparing budgeted costs to actual costs.

• Reports finances of establishment to management and advises management about resource utilisation, tax strategies, and assumptions underlying budget forecasts.

• Prepares balance sheet, profit and loss statement, amortization and depreciation schedules, and other financial reports, using calculator or computer.

• Prepare, examine, and analyse accounting records, financial statements, and other financial reports to assess accuracy,

completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.

• Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting and other tax requirements.

• Work as Internal Revenue Service agents.