Job Responsibilities
As an Enrolled Agent, I prepare income returns for clients of
H&R Block. (20 - 30 hours per week)
As an adjunct professor of accounting/finance at Chinese
Universities, I spend 50 - 60 hours preparing lessons with
reduced English vocabularies in financial Accounting.
As a Contract Analyst/Accountant, I spend 40 - 70 hours doing
accounting research, budgets, and large budgeted marketing
contract tracking with cost accounting alloctions by region.
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Job Requirements
Scheduling Accounting and Finance classes was not very difficult,
except when working part-time while going to the university.
MS Accountancy, Financial was the only courses taken while not
working. One learns more when not working, especially when one
has worked a few years and understands the importance of learning.
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Uppers
When one setups an accounting system, budgets, and cost tracking for large
contracts in marketing, the final products understandability and neatness gives
one great satisfaction.
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Downers
On contracts where one replaces someone that should have done the
job or when there is a consolidation of two or more companies
taking place, the employees are rude due to fear of losing their
positions in the new organization. Working 70 hours a week to
fulfil the objectives of the analysis under pressure and regular
employees abuse leaves one empty emotionally in the end.
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Lifestyle
Life style on these contracts isn't important. Evening meals are provided by
very expensive caterers to reduce time utilized to 30 minutes and one goes home
an hour earlier.
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Compensation
Compensation for overtime of 25 - 30 hours a week provides a good
return, but one has only five days off in three months. The
benefit was the added wages with no time to spend it.
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Advice to Jobseekers
Their will always be a good market for accountants. Contracts
with large companies through temporary agencies are better
because the large companies dictate the temporary agency's
markup. Some General Ledger Accountants through temporary
agencies are paid a modest $15.00 per hour and find out while
doing the posting that the agency charged the client $35.00 an
hour (One-third of hourly billing is normally the agencies share).
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