CPAs are critical business pros.
CPAs are in high demand by the companies and organizations in your hometown, across the country and at CPA firms and companies of all sizes.
What jobs can you pursue as a CPA? A lot!
Job titles and roles include a variety of specializations:
Tax
Management Accounting & Finance
Audit & Assurance
Technology & Cybersecurity
Forensic Accounting
Personal Financial Planning
Client Advisory Services
ESG Services
CPAs are Leaders
Here's an in-depth look at some of the exciting career options available to accounting and finance professionals.
CPAs bring an unmatched level of knowledge, experience and education to the tax planning and preparation process. CPAs regularly prepare basic income tax returns for individuals as well as more complex income and other tax returns for families, not-for-profit organizations and businesses of all sizes. Additionally, CPAs consider clients’ personal and business circumstances to identify tax planning and savings opportunities.
Accounting professionals including CPAs make an impact in the C-suite utilizing a wide range of knowledge and skills including information systems and internal controls, financial reporting, corporate finance strategy, governance and risk management. Reliable, high-quality financial reporting benefits companies, their lenders and investors, and the public.
Certified Public Accountants serve as capital market gatekeepers. Their skepticism, judgment, expertise and commitment to the public interest inform their work to audit, assure and report on the financial and non-financial information of private and public companies, not-for-profits and governments.
CPAs are on the front lines dealing with Cybersecurity attacks. CPAs can assist in the design of risk management programs to prevent cybersecurity attacks and provide needed security over a company’s information systems including its employees’ and customers’ data. Additionally, CPAs can provide assurance services on the security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality or privacy of information and systems.
Forensic accountants apply the specialized knowledge and investigative skills possessed by CPAs to collect, analyze, and evaluate evidential matter and to interpret and communicate findings in the courtroom, boardroom, or other legal or administrative venue.
CPAs are trusted personal advisors. Navigating personal finance decisions is more complex than ever. Your position as a trusted adviser in tax, retirement, estate, risk management, and investment planning is critical to helping clients prepare for the future.
CPAs are trusted business advisors. Working with businesses of all types and sizes on projects ranging from basic outsourced accounting services to evaluation of business acquisitions. Client advisory services can help businesses solve a variety of challenges including technology implementation, data security, strategy and governance and business development.
CPAs provide advisory and assurance services to companies focused on ESG, a hot topic with significant implications for the present and future. Whether it be considering sustainability and ESG risks in relation to a company’s strategy and operations, designing systems to capture relevant ESG data, or providing assurance on reported ESG information to enhance stakeholders’ confidence, CPAs bring their professional independent expertise with the focus on the public interest.
CPAs regularly become valued leaders in civic and not-for-profit organizations given their professional and personal ethics, business experience, critical thinking, objectivity and judgment.
