1. What is your name and title? 2. Why did you get into accounting? 3. What area of accounting did you pursue in your career? 4. What was the most challenging part of your career? 5. Is there any other area of accounting that you think you may have enjoyed?
Any accountant willing to share some knowledge with a College Student.
Answers
I'll help
1. Wayne Spivak, CFO
2. I fell into it when I took a part-time summer job. Also, when I was majoring in Anthropology I realized I'd never make money :)
3. Managerial. I didn't like the concept surrounding public.
4. I work with a lot of start-ups and turnarounds (they both have similar issues) - getting them to the point where they are no longer dysfunctional.
5. I done quite a bit of different types of accounting in different sectors; from public companies to private, non-profit to not making any profit, manufacturing, distribution, service, private equity. Each has it's own enjoyment and disatisfaction.
Hope this helps!
1
Thank you so much for your time and assistance.
1.Roger Singh, Accountant -FCCA,CA
2.I decided at an early age (15) because of the numerous openings that was available at that time
3.Financial Accounting
4.I was involved in a massive GL reconcilation exercise to tidy up the financials ,in addition ,I had to implement a financial reporting system from scratch
5.Definately cost and management accounting in a manufacturing environment;that where the excitement in accounting is,in my view