- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who entertains client or audience by professing to tell past, present, or future events through extraordinary spiritual insight or by perceiving another's thoughts. Designated according to specialty or medium used as Card Reader; Crystal Gazer; Fortune Teller; Mind Reader; Palmist; Tea-Leaf Reader.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who parades across stage to display costumes and provide background for chorus line to entertain audience.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares federal, state, or local tax returns of individual, business establishment, or other organization. Responsibilities include:
* Examines accounts and records and computes taxes owed according to prescribed rates, laws, and regulations, using computer.
* Advises management regarding effects of business activities on taxes, and on strategies for minimizing tax liability.
* Ensures that establishment complies with periodic tax payment, information reporting, and other taxing authority requirements.
* Represents principal before taxing bodies.
* May devise and install tax record systems.
* May specialize in various aspects of tax accounting, such as tax laws applied to particular industry, or in individual, fiduciary, or partnership income tax preparation.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who applies principles of accounting to analyze financial information and prepare financial reports. Responsibilities include:
* Compiles and analyzes financial information to prepare entries to accounts, such as general ledger accounts, documenting business transactions.
* Analyzes financial information detailing assets, liabilities, and capital, and prepares balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and other reports to summarize current and projected company financial position, using calculator or computer.
* Audits contracts, orders, and vouchers, and prepares reports to substantiate individual transactions prior to settlement.
* May establish, modify, document, and coordinate implementation of accounting and accounting control procedures.
* May devise and implement manual or computer-based system for general accounting.
* May direct and coordinate activities of other accountants and clerical workers performing accounting and bookkeeping tasks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who applies principles of accounting to analyze past and present financial operations and estimates future revenues and expenditures to prepare budget. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes records of present and past operations, trends and costs, estimated and realized revenues, administrative commitments, and obligations incurred to project future revenues and expenses, using computer.
* Documents revenues and expenditures expected and submits to management.
* Maintains budgeting systems which provide control of expenditures made to carry out activities, such as advertising and marketing, production, maintenance, or to project activities, such as construction of buildings.
* Advises management on matters, such as effective use of resources and assumptions underlying budget forecasts.
* Interprets budgets to management.
* May develop and install manual or computer-based budgeting system.
* May assist in financial analysis of legislative projects to develop capital improvement budget and be designated Program Analyst.
* May assist communities to develop budget and efficient use of funds and be designated Public Finance Specialist
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who applies principles of cost accounting to conduct studies which provide detailed cost information not supplied by general accounting systems. Responsibilities include:
* Plans study and collects data to determine costs of business activity, such as raw material purchases, inventory, and labor.
* Analyzes data obtained and records results, using computer.
* Analyzes changes in product design, raw materials, manufacturing methods, or services provided, to determine effects on costs.
* Analyzes actual manufacturing costs and prepares periodic report comparing standard costs to actual production costs.
* Provides management with reports specifying and comparing factors affecting prices and profitability of products or services.
* May develop and install manual or computer-based cost accounting system.
* May specialize in analyzing costs relating to public utility rate schedule and be designated Rate Engineer.
* May specialize in appraisal and evaluation of real property or equipment for sale, acquisition, or tax purposes for public utility and be designated Valuation Engineer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and conducts audits of data processing systems and applications to safeguard assets, ensure accuracy of data, and promote operational efficiency. Responsibilities include:
* Establishes audit objectives and devises audit plan, following general audit plan and previous audit reports.
* Interviews workers and examines records to gather data, following audit plan, and using computer.
* Analyzes data gathered to evaluate effectiveness of controls and determine accuracy of reports and efficiency and security of operations.
* Writes audit report to document findings and recommendations, using computer.
* Devises, writes, and tests computer program required to obtain information needed from computer for audit, using computer.
* Devises controls for new or modified computer application to prevent inaccurate calculations and data loss, and to ensure discovery of errors.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and conducts audits of data processing systems and applications to safeguard assets, ensure accuracy of data, and promote operational efficiency. Responsibilities include:
* Establishes audit objectives and devises audit plan, following general audit plan and previous audit reports.
* Interviews workers and examines records to gather data, following audit plan, and using computer.
* Analyzes data gathered to evaluate effectiveness of controls and determine accuracy of reports and efficiency and security of operations.
* Writes audit report to document findings and recommendations, using computer.
* Devises, writes, and tests computer program required to obtain information needed from computer for audit, using computer.
* Devises controls for new or modified computer application to prevent inaccurate calculations and data loss, and to ensure discovery of errors.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who identifies and keeps record of company owned or leased equipment, buildings, and other property. Responsibilities include:
* Records description, value, location, and other pertinent information of each item.
* Conducts periodic inventories to keep records current and ensure that equipment is properly maintained.
* Distributes cost of maintenance to proper accounts.
* Examines records to determine that acquisition, sale, retirement, and other entries have been made.
* Prepares statements reflecting monthly appreciated and depreciated values.
* Summarizes statements on annual basis for income tax purposes.
* Prepares schedules for amortization of buildings and equipment.
* Develops and recommends property accounting methods to provide effective controls.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who devises and installs special accounting systems and related procedures in establishment which cannot use standardized system. Responsibilities include:
* Conducts survey of operations to ascertain needs of establishment.
* Sets up classification of accounts and organizes accounting procedures and machine methods support.
* Devises forms and prepares manuals required to guide activities of bookkeeping and clerical personnel who post data and keep records.
* May adapt conventional accounting and recordkeeping functions to machine accounting processes and be designated Accountant, Machine Processing.
Industry:Professional careers
