Seven-year itch —— How do accountants break through the bottleneck period? (1)

1. Introduction

Revealing the Key to Accountant's Career Development

I have heard a saying before that among college graduates, graduates majoring in accounting and tax auditing account for about 1% of the total number. This data may be a bit exaggerated, but at least it shows a phenomenon that accounting professionals have a wide market demand.

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 accountants is actually very difficult, whether you want to admit it or not: 7% of accountants may only serve small and micro enterprises all their lives, and more than 5% of accountants can only engage in low-end accounting work all their lives.

If you are not content with this, want to find a good job, a good platform, and want to leave no regrets in your accounting life, please read this article patiently. He will inspire you and give you pertinent advice.

Second, the accounting profession is snobbish: keep in mind the three major professional characteristics

, and be careful

. First of all, you should find out what characteristics our accounting profession has. I have made a summary, and the accounting profession has three characteristics:

1. The entry threshold is relatively low.

2. The risk of accounting profession is very great.

3. It is more important to win the trust of the boss than anything else to do a good job in accounting.

Next, we will share the first characteristic of our accounting profession. The traditional accounting work has three characteristics:

1. It has strong rules, and our accounting work has such hard and fast rules as system, criteria and laws.

2. Accounting work is mainly simple and repetitive work, and there are not many innovations in accounting work at ordinary times, and the story of last month is repeated every month;

3. Accounting work is an after-the-fact record, and its urgency is not so strong. Especially after the realization of computerized accounting, our accounting work has been simplified to make the accounting entries right, 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 you have rich work experience when you are older, you can do many jobs that young people can't do, and you will have better career sensitivity than young people.

now that computerization has appeared, it has become easy to get started in accounting work, and the handover of our accounting work has also become easy. Such changes have made the entry threshold of accounting profession very low, and the substitutability of our accounting personnel in a job has become very high. At this time, accounting personnel will have a sense of urgency and pressure in the workplace.

Three types of job risks that surround you

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 the problem of two sets of accounts and tax evasion for various reasons, which will involve accountants. Our accountant also summed up a few unforgettable words about the danger of accounting work, which I also want to share with you:

1. Earning money to buy cabbage and buying white powder

2. Stubby, untenable

3. Going to the hospital well, going to the court badly

4. Fighting with the tax. Quarrel with business

Specifically, the risks of accounting work include three categories:

1. Economic liability risk, because of careless operation, you may have to bear certain economic compensation responsibilities. For example, the cashier made a mistake in paying the money, which caused the company's economic losses, and the cashier may have to bear the responsibility. Also, after the accountant got the input tax bill, because you were not careful, you forgot to authenticate and deduct the input tax bill, which caused the tax loss. At this time, you may also have to bear certain liability for compensation.

2. You may have heard many cases about the risks of illegal crimes. The most common cases of illegal crimes are doing two sets of accounts, tax evasion and false invoicing.

3. Risk in decision-making, because you dare not stick to your professional opinions, because you are afraid of offending a certain leader. Maybe when it is your turn to express your opinions, you didn't stick to it and didn't keep the bottom line. At this time, you echoed others. When this matter leads to consequences, you may be responsible for the failure of this decision, and you should take the blame for it.

Being trusted is more important than having the ability

It is almost impossible for accountants to achieve success in their work without the support of their bosses. Without the trust of their bosses, there will be no support from their bosses. I wonder if you have noticed this phenomenon. The bosses 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, small and medium-sized enterprises are not so standardized in taxation and management, so that relatives may feel more at ease if they are prevented from being reported by insiders;

2. Being in the same interest as relatives, since they are in the same interest, it may be possible to cover up some illegal actions;

3. Maybe the boss also realizes that his company management is not so perfect and his internal control is not so strict, so he hopes to make up for it with the responsibility of his relatives at this time.

to sum up these three reasons, it can actually be summed up in two words, which are trust.

Accounting in small and medium-sized enterprises needs trust, and accounting in large enterprises also needs trust. Accounting has its particularity. Accountants must make your boss feel your sincerity in their work, and let him feel that all the ideas you put forward are not out of selfishness, but for the company's consideration and the boss's interests.

Our accounting work tends to the back end of the business, and there is more information at the back end. It is not difficult for accountants to find a problem, but if you want to solve this problem and make achievements 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 company's reform and improve the financial work. The boss is willing to support you, which is based on the premise that he should trust you. In other words, trust is the basis for the accountant's innovation and change and a guarantee for his work achievements.

Third, how to eliminate the anxiety in the accounting workplace

In fact, you don't need to be anxious when the accounting certificate is cancelled

In the previous paragraph, our official legislation has officially announced that the accounting practice certificate has been cancelled. Many accountants feel anxious when this certificate is cancelled, and feel that there is no threshold for accounting work in the future. My job safety factor will be reduced. I think this is the case:

There is no need for accountants to feel melancholy because of the cancellation of accounting qualification. I think you should be more relaxed. You will understand this truth if you think about the origin of accounting certificate.

in the 198s, most of our accountants became monks halfway, many of whom were engaged in production and business, and then they were brought up to be accountants. They didn't have any professional foundation and quality, so they set up accounting certificates at that time.

Accounting certificate is actually a bottom line requirement. Setting such a bottom line requires accountants to supplement your basic knowledge before you can do such a job. Today, in fact, this situation has been greatly improved. Our accountants have generally received higher education, and their professional quality should be said to be greatly improved compared with that of that year. Accounting professional education has also cultivated enough reserve troops for the accounting workplace. In this case, the bottom line requirement of leaving an accounting certificate is meaningless.

what I want to say is that the cancellation of the accounting certificate is actually the necessity of economic development. In a large enterprise, if you want to recruit accountants, you probably won't look at the accounting certificate because he has higher requirements.

When recruiting accountants in a small enterprise, the boss will not look at your accounting certificate, he will look at your practical ability. Without accounting qualification, the requirements for accountants in the workplace are not reduced, but improved. If our accountants are still satisfied with the bottom line requirements such as taking the accounting certificate, then I think your idea is misplaced, and this idea is very bad.

How does simple and repetitive work reflect value

There are also many accountants who are wondering how what they do every day is simple and repetitive work.

Our accounting work does have such a feature. Maybe you are faced with invoices, vouchers, entries, statements and tax stamps every day, day after day, year after year. Doing this kind of work for a long time is really easy to produce a sense of fatigue in the workplace. In addition, because of its strong regularity and high frequency, it may be replaced by computer technology and artificial intelligence. For these people engaged in accounting, they have anxiety and doubts.

Then we have to talk about whether or not doing this kind of work is valuable. I want to comfort our accountants here. All experiences are the cornerstone of your future. In simple and repetitive work, if you can find the rules and problems, it is actually not easy. This requires positive thinking. Let me give two examples:

Everyone knows that there are some problems in the process of expense reimbursement. Do you know how many taxes you missed when you distributed benefits to employees? Have you really considered these issues?

If you can cultivate your data sensitivity in simple and repetitive work, it will also make you behave very professionally. Because you have professional performance, you may get a better promotion and get a better recognition from the leaders. This is the greatest significance of doing simple and repetitive work.

How to change to management accounting

There was a news in the previous paragraph that must have stunned our accountants. Deloitte announced that they had developed an accounting robot, and the accounting robot might take over all our accounting. What did we accountants do? Now there is a very fashionable saying that our traditional accounting should be transformed into management accounting, so how can it be easily said?

IT technology has always had a profound impact on our accounting work. After the emergence of financial software, those tedious general ledgers, subsidiary ledgers and account balance tables in the past no longer need accountants to do manual registration. At the end of the month, accounting closing can generate reports with the click of a button.

When online banking appeared, most of our cashier's work has actually disappeared. After the establishment of the financial enjoyment center, artificial intelligence may completely replace our accountants to do accounting. Even if this cannot be done at present, the realistic approach is that artificial intelligence has finished the accounting work, and enterprises need to cut at least 7% of the accountants. What should accountants do under such a situation?

it is definitely not possible to remain unchanged. Only through transformation can you have longer vitality and stronger competitiveness in the accounting workplace.

Mr. Ren Zhengfei, the founder of Huawei, told the employees of Huawei's financial system that if the financial department doesn't understand the business, it can only provide low-value accounting services. Huawei has always asked the accountants to change from accounting to management. How to do that? Ren Zhengfei pointed out three directions:

1. Participate in the company's project management and get to know the whole picture of the company's operation most quickly;

2. Participate in business analysis to 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 a reference. You can take these three directions pointed out by President Ren as the starting point of management transformation.

IV. What certificates do accountants need to take

Four types of certificates: Find the means to improve yourself

I often say that the accounting workplace is very powerful. To do well in this workplace, on the one hand, you need sufficient experience, on the other hand, you need a series of certificates, which are indispensable.

Experience is the guarantee that you are recognized in an organization, and the certificate is the guarantee that you can knock on the door of an organization. Experience should be accumulated and cultivated little by little in future work. You need to study and work hard to get the certificate. Choosing an accounting career not only means hard work, but also means working overtime at the end of the month, and also choosing to keep studying and taking exams.

The certificates that our accounting majors can take can be roughly divided into three categories:

The first category of certificates with professional titles, 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 neighboring professions, such as asset appraisers, auditors and tax agents;

If you do accounting work without a certificate, it may be difficult for you to get recognition in the workplace, and employers may not dare to hire you casually. Accountants need to obtain different certificates in different career stages, which is definitely painful, but I think you should turn this pain into motivation. On the one hand, the process of textual research can force yourself to update your knowledge systematically.

Our accounting professional knowledge is updated very quickly, and textual research can be used as a means of learning and testing. On the other hand, the certificate is a stepping stone for verification, which is also conducive to building your own self-confidence in the workplace.

Absolute first choice: professional title and note certificate

I have a feeling that the group in the workplace who likes studying and taking exams best may be our accounting group.

I'd also like to mention one to our accountant here.