Accountant

Accountants control and revise financial statements. They can also assist with bookkeeping or prepare annual reports and tax statements. Some clients want the accountant to act as economic advisor.

If you want to become an accountant after completing your master, you need to study Business Economics and Auditing (cand.merc.aud.).

What does an Accountant do?

• Make annual reports and tax statements
  
  
• Auditing (financial inspection of a company)
  
  
• Have direct client contact and advise clients
  
  
• Financial analysis
  
  
• Accounting

Example of work as an Accountant

An accounting firm have had corporate client for years. Now it is time for the annual audit.

A small team of accountants travel to the client’s office. At their office they will work together with the client’s finance department.

The accountants start out by asking questions concerning the accounting processes.

Next, the accountants draw samples of the company’s bookkeeping for control.

The following days they finish the documentation and use an exported overview from the client’s bookkeeping system to make the annual report.

Once that is done the head of the team returns to the client’s office to approve the annual report.