Geography (IRE)



Accounting is the language of business. It encompasses communicating and analyzing financial information for the benefit of businesses, individuals, government, and not-for-profit organizations so that resources are used to better society. Accounting uses data analytics to analyze profits, productivity, sales trends, costs, and other financial information to assist in decision-making. Besides careers opportunities such as public accounting, cost accounting, tax accounting, governmental accounting, and forensic accounting, accountants often play a major role in strategic planning, consulting, M&A, finance, human capital and people management, and technology, and are critical to the operations of the free market system.

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Related Major Skills

Communicate across cultures
Computer modeling
Conduct field studies
Develops project designs
Evaluation
Examine data
Gather and organize data
Identify value systems
Interview skills
Maintain records
Observe human interactions
Plan long-term projects
Present position
Recognize similarities
Summarize results
Surveying and sampling
Understand societies
Utilize statistical applications
Write clearly
Write grant proposals



 


 

Sample Work Settings

Department of Commerce
Department of Defense
Department of Energy
Department of Health & Human Services
Department of Housing & Urban Development
Department of Interior
Department of State
Department of Transportation
Aerial Survey Firms
Architectural Firms
Department of Agriculture
Engineering Firms
Environmental Consulting Firms
Environmental Protection Agency Federal, State & Local Government
Insurance Companies Land Developers Mapping Agencies
Marketing/Distribution Companies
National Aeronautics & Space
Administration Planning Agencies
Real Estate & Development Corporations
Resource Management Agencies
School Boards
Textbook & Map Publishers
Travel Agencies Universities