Accounting Accounting is the recording, classifying, summarizing, and interpreting of financial events and transactions to provide management and other interested parties the information they need to make good decisions. Basically its how businesses track their income and assets over time. Accountants perform a wide variety of activities besides just preparing financial statements and recording daily business transactions, they also have to compute costs and efficiency gains or losses, participate in strategies for mergers and acquisitions, …showed first 75 words of 680 total…

…showed last 75 words of 680 total…background in accounting. An accountant is perfectly positioned to become a CFO because he or she probably has the best understanding of what drives a business and profits in a company. To begin a career in accounting most likely you would have to start in a public accounting firm. The future is bright for all in the accounting fields with the excess of jobs opening up all the time in the accounting field. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**