Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Why Be An Auditor?

From since I can remember I’ve always had a passion for math. Once my mother realized that I excelled in this subject, she suggested that I be an accountant. Now when this suggestion came about I was too young to know exactly what an accountant was. As I grew older I did my research on various websites and I noticed the job description given seemed pretty interesting.

As stated previously on my page, in 7th grade I participated in a Toshiba Invention Competition. Within in my group of four team members I was the designated researcher, because my teacher stated I was talented at that job. After hearing this I was now on a search to figure out what career I could have in which incorporated both math and research.

Years later when I was a sophomore in high school I had to create a project that showed what I envisioned my life to be in 8 years. This meant I had to decide what my dream career would be. As I researched different accounting jobs on Salary.com I came across an auditor. This word immediately rung a bell in my head. I remembered my mother once stating that she was being audited. She explained that this meant somebody was verifying what she claimed on her financial statements to be true.
Since I discovered that auditing fell under accounting I was now more interested. I did my some more research on this job and I had finally made a connection between math and researcher. If I were to become an auditor I would have do research through my clients’ financial statements in order to prove accuracy of what they claimed.

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