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Is there a need for a dedicated accountant rather than hiring anyone with a commerce background and qualified in using accounting softwares?

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Date Posted: 2013/04/24
Danstan Lokumalage
by Danstan Lokumalage , Senior Tax Compliance Accountant , Ernst&Young-Doha

Its depend on your nature ,size,volume of the business.
Most importantly the fact should be considered that as a businessmen you need to know your profit,growth and cashflow status at the end of the month correctly to understand the direction of the business.
So if you don't occupy a person who don't have sound accounting knowledge, it might cause to change every thing.

khaled Ibrahim Sayed Abd El Salam Ibrahim
by khaled Ibrahim Sayed Abd El Salam Ibrahim , Chief Accountant , -ElMehy engineering company

I am sure we must all admit by one thing , Any Employer when thinking to hire any one in any division not only accounting thinking about the result he needs , By sequence we all know have knowing the answer dedicated Accountant , that's the frame all employer work on it , But we all Must admit these days Most of the Company use Accounting Soft ware regardless the name of it and its rank in the whole world ,By sequence any company look first the Accountant experience and then the Soft ware experience , the lucky employer who find both Accountant and ERP experience , by BOTH , the employer will reach the goal of hiring any accountant .

Cherryl Jaranilla
by Cherryl Jaranilla , Accounting Bookkeeper , Dumanjug Multi-Purpose Cooperative

Professional accountants in business play crucial roles identifying and addressing unique challenges facing mid-sized enterprises in strategic management, corporate governance, risk management and internal control, financial reporting and accounting and other areas.
How do the challenges of typical mid-sized enterprises affect their work as chief financial officer, controller, advisor or in another capacity? How do they apply their skills and expertise to identify and address these challenges? What key lessons can be learned? Although those interviewed are from different mid-sized enterprises from all over the world, they deal with similar issues and their solutions point in the same direction.
In that way, each article highlights practices that other professional accountants in business might find useful in addressing issues within their own organizations.
The key lessons they share can help professional accountants in business and others drive performance and create value for their own organizations.
The appendix provides a brief description of the roles and domain of the professional accountant in business and of the characteristics of a mid-sized enterprise.
This information paper is part of a broader Professional Accountants in Business Committee project on the role of professional accountants in business in mid-sized enterprises.
These interviews will serve as the basis for the development of a principles-based good practice guidance on the typical challenges that mid-sized enterprises confront and how professional accountants in business could assist in responding to those issues.

Abdul Razique
by Abdul Razique , Accounts Officer , Zaver Pearl Continental Hotel Gwadar

Account Payable is a major part of Accounti g cycle that pertains to obligations arising from the promise to pay later on in connection with the purchases and or services rendered, and in more technical sense, the A/P is a measure of time for making cash outflows into cash inflows.

ABDUL MAJEED KUNNAM PADATH
by ABDUL MAJEED KUNNAM PADATH , Chief Accountant , Arab building materials

Dedication for accounting role is compulsory,even we are commerce graduate,and able to use accounting software..With out dedication in to any role,our qualification means nothing....

Tahir Mahmood
by Tahir Mahmood , Freelance Accountant , Mazdoo Accounting

Dedicated accountant is a doctor/ engineer ,Is there any one who want to get treatment by an unqualified doctor or engineer.
Companies mostly hire an accountant by his appearance to make their offices more beautiful and ignore the importance of his role.
they never be find goal because an experienced one only know to handle the matter more acurately.
I made many companies accounts which was wrongly made by a young accountant.

Ahmed Mahmoud
by Ahmed Mahmoud , Technical Office Engineer (Technical Support Engineer) Team leader , Deutschland Technology Co

yes of course

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