Job Negotiation Analysis

Job Negotiation Analysis

Job Description

The job I am planning to do after graduation is the public accountant.

In contemporary society, public accountants perform a broad range of accounting, auditing, tax, and consulting activities for their clients, which may be governments, corporations, nonprofit organizations, or individuals. For instance, some public accountants concentrate on tax matters, such as advising companies about the tax advantages and disadvantages of certain business decisions and preparing individual income tax returns; some offer advice in the design of accounting and data-processing systems and the selection of controls to safeguard; others can also be involved in external auditing or forensic accounting.

The company that hire public accountant is called public accounting firm. It is a firm that is registered with the Public Accounting Oversight Board to provide accounting services to public companies. The four largest public accounting firms are known as the "Big Four"-- Ernst & Young, Deloitte, KPMG, and PWC. Large regional accounting firms include Grant Thornton, BDO Seidman, Johnson Lambert & Co., LLP. and Cherry Bekaert & Holland.

Market Analysis of Public Accountant

According to my research, the job as a public accountant can be analyzed as following aspects:

Public accounting industry—there are four main areas of public accounting business. In external auditing area, auditors go through the financial records of their clients to make sure that they are in order and there are no discrepancies. Forensic accounting involves analyzing historical financial data to check for any illegal and questionable money transactions such as money laundering, embezzlement, securities frauds and other illegal financial transaction and draw it to the attention of the law enforcement authorities. In management advisory services area, accountants provide financial advisory to businesses and individuals on accounting information system...