How do they match: Accountants and Auditors

  • Data Processing Auditor

  • Examine, analyze, and interpret accounting records to prepare financial statements, give advice, or audit and evaluate statements prepared by others. Install or advise on systems of recording costs or other financial and budgetary data.

  • Advise clients in areas such as compensation, employee health care benefits, the design of accounting or data processing systems, or long-range tax or estate plans.
  • Audit payroll and personnel records to determine unemployment insurance premiums, workers' compensation coverage, liabilities, and compliance with tax laws.
  • Collect and analyze data to detect deficient controls, duplicated effort, extravagance, fraud, or non-compliance with laws, regulations, and management policies.
  • Direct activities of personnel engaged in filing, recording, compiling, and transmitting financial records.
  • Establish tables of accounts and assign entries to proper accounts.
  • Examine and evaluate financial and information systems, recommending controls to ensure system reliability and data integrity.
  • Examine inventory to verify journal and ledger entries.
  • Prepare adjusting journal entries.
  • Review data about material assets, net worth, liabilities, capital stock, surplus, income, or expenditures.

  • Analyze budgetary or accounting data.
  • Analyze business or financial data.
  • Evaluate effectiveness of personnel policies or practices.
  • Report information to managers or other personnel.