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What is the difference between bankers and accountants?

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Question added by Ghada Sameer , Project Manager and media executive , CQA
Date Posted: 2015/08/02
Khaled Mohee Eldeen Abbas Mahmoud
by Khaled Mohee Eldeen Abbas Mahmoud , Chartered Accountant # 10465 , Self-employed

a banker is a person who calculate interest rates and find an adequate return of investment deals. 

an accountant is a person who register every transaction in its appropriate account to obtain financial statements and reports.

Ahmed El Awady
by Ahmed El Awady , محاسب زبائن , كارفور - مصر

why banking system is specialized system than the general accounting ? 

 

Vast difference

Not every bank employee Accountant

Not every bank accountant

Bank needs of accountants in some business

 

As needed by the rest of the other companies

While banking may be administrative or accounting or technical

Khaled Abdelrehim ACCA DipIFR CMA
by Khaled Abdelrehim ACCA DipIFR CMA , Financial Analysis Assistant General Manager , Khalda Petroleum Company

Accountants mostly are dealing with the past by registering, reporting and analyzing transaction already happened, while bankers mainly deal with the current and future, by evaluating investments, credit worthiness, calculating the expected bad debts, and generally taking decision related to the future.

Imdad Hussain Rajput
by Imdad Hussain Rajput , Assistant Sales Manager , Forego

in my view, bankers can be defined as investor or owner who invests in banks...

Malik Khalid Mahmood
by Malik Khalid Mahmood , Regional Finance Manager , Leosons International FZ LLC

A banker can be a accountant, performs the functions of accepting deposits from customers, lending it to borrowers, payment of profits to its customers while keeping the margin of their stake holders.

 

An accountant is the person who records the transactions of day to day business as per IAS/IFRS, make reports on business transactions, perform analysis, report and control variances.  Provide suggestions on routine and upcoming business matters, risk analysis and provides investment proposals for excess funds or finds resources to funds the short comings in business needs.

 

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