Career Opportunities for Accountants

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Career Opportunities for Accountants Patrick Wilson XACC/280 03/17/2013 PAUL GOMEZ There are different sectors of accounting out in the world today, however, the two sectors I would want to work in would be either federal government or private sectors. With the federal government a person would have great benefits while working with them. The pay is higher due to being a government employee rather than being in any other sector. Now it would depend on what department of the sector that a person worked in if they were being stressed by this or not. The next sector I would want to work in would be the private sector. A person can make a decent living in this sector as well, however, the benefits would be less as the company a person worked for dose not have to provide all the same benefits, but the stress of this sector would be lowered especially if a person owned their own business doing this. The sector I chose would be the federal government, how do I imagine this job would be like. Well first if you can break into this sector you have got it made because this opens other opportunities to get to move around in the government area without having to go through all of the entry testing and interviews. I would imagine this job working for the Department of Defense or DFAS as an accountant being stressful due to how large of a budget the government has and trying to keep the accounts up to date because of the amounts of transactions happening. The breaks would be nice and the benefits would be
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