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, when I first started taking classes, which feels like many years ago, I was going to be a
paralegal. After taking some research classes, I guess you could say I got bored. Knowing
that I can retire from my job with having thirty years and being a young age of 48, I
wanted something that I could probably do right from my home and help out with my
husbands business. So after looking in to different occupations, I decided to give
accounting a try. I think accounting is very challenging for me and I do like a challenge.
In the accounting field, it seems that there are a variety of opportunities. When doing my
research, I did find out that there are four types of accountants and they are public
accountants, which I think this is the field of accounting that I want to do, management
accountants, internal auditors, and government accountants. With all four of these the work
that would be performed is accounting, auditing, tax and consulting work, which the
consulting work seems like me also. Most accountants work in offices with a normal 40
hour work week. If you are a tax accountant you can expect to burn the midnight oil during
tax season. Of course, this will be a tax accountants busiest time of year. There are other
jobs that you can do with an accounting degree, such as being an actuary, bookkeeping
clerks,cost estimators, financial analyst and loan officers.
It seems that the number one function of an accountant is keeping track of a company
