Reveal the key to the development of accounting profession
I have heard a saying before that among college graduates, graduates majoring in accounting and tax auditing will account for about 10% of the total number. This data may be a bit exaggerated, but at least it shows a phenomenon that the market demand for accounting professionals is very wide.
In reality, many people really feel that accounting employment is relatively easy. Although it is easy, there is also an embarrassing fact: the development of accounting is actually very difficult, whether you want to admit it or not: 70% of accountants may only serve small and micro enterprises all their lives, and more than 50% of accountants can only engage in low-end accounting work all their lives.
If you are not satisfied with this, want to find a good job, want to find a good platform, and want to leave no regrets in your accounting career, please read this article patiently. He will inspire you and give you pertinent advice.
Second, accounting professional snobbery: keep in mind three professional characteristics.
Be careful of this occupational hazard.
In the accounting workplace, first of all, you should find out what are the characteristics of our accounting profession. I made a summary, accounting profession has three characteristics:
1, the entry threshold is relatively low, and our accounting major is very replaceable;
2. The accounting profession is very risky.
To do a good job in accounting, it is more important to gain the trust of the boss than anything else.
Let's share the first characteristic of our accounting profession. Traditional accounting work has three characteristics:
1, with strong regularity, and our accounting work has rigid rules such as systems, standards and regulations;
2. Accounting work is mainly simple and repetitive work. Usually, there is not much innovation in accounting work, and the story of last month is repeated every month;
3. Accounting work is an after-the-fact record, so the urgency is not so strong. Especially after the realization of computerized accounting, our accounting work has been simplified to make accounting entries correct, even if your accounting ability is qualified.
On the one hand, computerized accounting releases the working pressure of our accountants, and at the same time reduces the gold content of our accounting work.
In the past, accountants had a feeling that the older they got, the more popular they became.
Because I am older and have rich work experience, I can do many jobs that young people can't do, and my career sensitivity will be better than that of young people.
Now that computerization has appeared, the entry of accounting work has become easy, and the handover of our accounting work has also become easy. Such changes make the entry threshold of accounting profession very low, and the substitutability of our accountants in a job becomes very high. At this time, accountants will have a sense of urgency and pressure in the workplace.
Around your three job risks
If you are engaged in the accounting profession, you can't help but mention the risks of this profession. Because accounting work has to deal with money and taxes, there will inevitably be greater professional risks. In particular, some enterprises have two sets of accounts for various reasons, and there is a problem of tax evasion. These problems will involve accountants. About the dangers of accounting, our accountant also summed up a few unforgettable words, and I also want to share them with you:
1, earn money to buy cabbage and buy new white powder.
2. I can't stand it, I can't stand it.
3. Doing well in the hospital is not good in the court.
4. Struggle with taxation, auditing and commerce.
Specifically, the risks of accounting work include three categories:
1, economic liability risk, because of your careless operation, you may have to bear certain economic compensation responsibilities. For example, the cashier made a mistake when paying the money, which caused the company's economic losses, and the cashier may be responsible. Also, after the accountant got the input tax bill, because you were not careful, you forgot to authenticate the input tax deduction bill, resulting in the loss of tax. At this time, you may also have to bear certain liability for compensation.
2, the risk of illegal crimes, you may hear many cases in this regard, the most common illegal crimes are doing two sets of accounts, tax evasion, false invoicing and so on.
3, the risk of decision-making, because you dare not stick to your professional advice, because you are afraid of offending a leader, maybe when it's your turn to express your opinions, you don't stick to it and don't keep the bottom line. At this time, you echoed others. When this matter leads to consequences, you may have to bear the responsibility for the failure of this decision and take the blame for it.
Being trusted is more important than being able.
Without the support of the boss, it is almost impossible for accountants to succeed in their work. Without the trust of the boss, there is no support from the boss. I don't know if you have noticed this phenomenon. The owners of small and medium-sized enterprises especially like to use their relatives as accountants and cashiers. I have analyzed that there may be three reasons:
1. In order to control risks, after all, the practices of small and medium-sized enterprises in taxation and management are not so standardized, and relatives may feel more at ease if they are prevented from being reported by insiders;
2, and relatives themselves are the same interests * * *, since they are the same interests * * *, it may be possible to cover up some illegal acts;
3. Maybe the boss also realizes that his company's management is not so perfect and internal control is not so strict. At this time, he hopes to make up for it with the sense of responsibility of his loved ones.
To sum up these three reasons, it can actually be summed up in two words, that is, trust.
Accounting for small and medium-sized enterprises needs trust, and accounting for large enterprises also needs trust. Accounting has its particularity. The accountant must let your boss feel your sincerity in your work, and let him feel that all your ideas are not out of selfishness, but for the consideration of the company and the interests of the boss.
Our accounting work tends to the back end of the business, where there is more information. It is not difficult for an accountant to find a problem, but if you want to solve this problem and make a difference in your work, it is very important to get the support of your boss.
If the boss is willing to support you, you can have the right to promote the change of the company and the promotion of financial work. The boss is willing to support you. This is based on the premise that he should trust you. In other words, trust is the basis of innovation and change of accountants, and it is the guarantee of achieving work results.
Third, how to put an end to accounting workplace anxiety
The accounting certificate has been cancelled. Actually, you don't have to worry.
Some time ago, our official legislation officially announced the cancellation of the accounting practice certificate. Many accountants have a sense of anxiety about the cancellation of this certificate, and feel that there is no threshold for engaging in accounting work in the future, and the work safety factor will be reduced. This is my view on this issue:
There is no need for accountants to feel depressed about the cancellation of accounting qualification. I think you should be more relaxed. Think about the origin of accounting certificate to understand this truth.
In the 1980s, most of our accountants became monks halfway. Many of them are engaged in production and business, and then they are trained as accountants. They didn't have any professional foundation and quality, so they got an accounting certificate at that time.
Accounting certificate is actually a bottom line requirement. To set such a bottom line, you need accountants to supplement your basic knowledge before you can do such a job. Today, this situation has actually been greatly improved. Our accountants have generally received higher education, and their professional quality should be said to have been greatly improved compared with that of that year. Accounting professional education has also trained enough reserve forces for the accounting workplace. In this case, it is meaningless to leave the bottom line requirement of accounting certificate.
What I want to say is that the cancellation of accounting certificate is actually the necessity of economic development. In a large enterprise, if you want to recruit an accountant, you probably won't look at the accounting certificate because he is more demanding.
When a small enterprise recruits an accountant, the boss will not look at your accounting certificate, he will look at your practical ability. Without accounting qualification, the requirements for accounting in the workplace are not reduced, but improved. If our accountant is still satisfied with the bottom line requirements such as taking an accounting certificate, then I think your idea is misplaced, which is very bad.
How to reflect the value of simple and repetitive work
There are also many accountants wondering how the work they do every day is simple and repetitive, and how these jobs reflect their own value.
Our accounting work does have such a feature. Maybe you are faced with invoices, vouchers, entries, statements and tax bills every day, day after day, year after year. Doing this kind of work for a long time is really prone to workplace fatigue. In addition, because of its strong regularity and high frequency, it may be replaced by computer technology and artificial intelligence. For these people who are engaged in accounting, I think it is normal to have anxiety and doubt.
Then we should also talk about the value of this kind of work. I want to comfort our accountant here. All experiences are the cornerstone of your future. In simple and repetitive work, it is not easy to find the laws and problems, which requires positive thinking. Let me give two examples:
Do you know how many tax risk points there are in the expense reimbursement process? Do you know how much tax you missed when you distributed benefits to employees? Have you really considered these questions?
If you can cultivate your data sensitivity in simple and repetitive work, it will also make you behave very professionally. Because of your professional performance, you may get a better promotion and get better recognition from the leaders. This is the greatest significance of doing simple and repetitive work.
How to transform into management accounting?
Some time ago, there was a news that definitely killed our accountant. Deloitte announced that they have developed an accounting robot, which may take over all our accountants. What did our accountant do? Now there is a very fashionable saying that our traditional accounting should be transformed into management accounting, so how can it be said easily?
IT technology has always had a far-reaching impact on our accounting work. After the appearance of financial software, those complicated general ledger, subsidiary ledger and account balance table in the past no longer need manual registration by accountants. At the end of the month, you can generate accounting statements by clicking a button.
When online banking appeared, most of our cashier's jobs actually disappeared. After the establishment of the financial center, artificial intelligence may completely replace our accountants to do accounting. Even if this can't be done at present, the realistic approach is that artificial intelligence has completed the accounting work, and enterprises need to lay off at least 70% of accounting personnel. What should an accountant do under such circumstances?
Invariance is definitely not enough. Only transformation can make you have longer vitality and stronger competitiveness in the accounting workplace.
Mr Ren Zheng Fei, the founder of Huawei, told the employees of Huawei's financial system that if the financial department didn't understand the business, it could only provide low-value accounting services. Huawei has been asking accountants to transform from accounting to management. How to do it? Ren Wei pointed out three directions:
1, participate in the company's project management, and get a quick overview of the company's operation;
2. Participate in business analysis and understand the business reasons behind the company's financial data;
3. Participate in budget forecast, understand products and markets, and communicate directly with business;
I think the financial personnel of other enterprises can also take these three directions pointed out by President Ren as reference, and everyone can also take these three directions pointed out by President Ren as the starting point for the transition to management.
4. What certificate does an accountant need to take?
Four types of certificates: find the means to improve yourself.
I always say that the accounting profession is very powerful. To do a good job in this workplace, on the one hand, you need enough experience, on the other hand, you need a series of certificates, both of which are indispensable.
Experience is the guarantee that you are recognized in the organization, and certificate is the guarantee that you can knock on the door of the organization. Experience should be accumulated and cultivated bit by bit in future work. You need to study hard and work hard to get the certificate. Choosing the profession of accounting not only means hard work, but also means working overtime at the end of the month. It also means choosing to continue studying and taking exams.
The certificates that our accounting major can take can be roughly divided into three categories:
First-class professional title certificates such as assistant accountant, intermediate accountant and senior accountant;
The second category is the certificate of certified public accountant;
The third category is the certificates of some adjacent majors, such as asset appraisers, auditors and tax agents;
If you do accounting work without a certificate, it may be difficult for you to be recognized in the workplace, and the employer may not dare to hire you casually. It must be painful for accountants to get different certificates in different career stages, but I think you should turn this pain into motivation. On the one hand, the process of textual research can force you to update your knowledge systematically.
Our accounting professional knowledge is updated quickly. Textual research can be used as a means of learning and testing. On the other hand, certificate is a stepping stone to verification. With this stepping stone, you can also build your own confidence in the workplace.
Absolute first choice: professional title and note certificate
I have a feeling that the group that likes studying and taking exams most in the workplace may be our accounting group.
Here, I also want to remind our accountants not to study for the sake of research. Many accountants believe that the more certificates they get, the more they will be the stepping stone to their job search and the step of promotion in the workplace. What is the actual situation?
You will find that after getting these certificates, it is not as beautiful as you think. What should you do or how much salary should you get? Not as qualitative a leap as you think.
Textual research is certainly not easy. We must remember one sentence. Textual research is a phased study, which is more based on theoretical knowledge. In the future, if you want to have a good performance in your work and get the approval of the leaders in your work, you need to accumulate practical work experience. Therefore, our accounting study should be lifelong learning, and don't think that getting a certificate represents your ability.
Don't be greedy for textual research, don't do it if you have no choice. If you want to get all the accounting-related certificates, the accountant may have to bury himself in the examination materials. Actually, it's not necessary Certificate is a test of our own knowledge structure ability. You just have to pass the exam, there is no need to test yourself again and again. For example, if you can get a certified public accountant certificate, I think no one in the whole accounting profession doubts your professional ability.
Also remind accountants that in the period of great transformation of our accounting work, there are all kinds of businessmen selling accounting certificates who have been eyeing your wallet. They made a series of accounting certificates and began to collect money in the name of exam training. This kind of certificate is often quite attractive, because it conforms to some characteristics of this era and captures the psychology of our accountants full of crisis.
These certificates include foreign certificates and local certificates, mainly management accounting certificates. Textual research by accountants is of course necessary, but it must not be blind. My personal suggestion is to focus on two officially recognized series, one is the certificate of certified public accountant and the other is the certificate of accounting title.
To be continued.
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