Accounting

Official job titles mapped to our programs

Tax Preparers: Prepare tax returns for individuals or small businesses.

Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks: Produce financial records for organizations and check financial records for accuracy.

Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks: Compile and record employee time and payroll data. May compute employees’ time worked, production, and commission. May compute and post wages and deductions, or prepare paychecks.

Brokerage Clerks: Perform duties related to the purchase, sale, or holding of securities. Duties include writing orders for stock purchases or sales, computing transfer taxes, verifying stock transactions, accepting and delivering securities, tracking stock price fluctuations, computing equity, distributing dividends, and keeping records of daily transactions and holdings.

Industries

• Public accounting firms

• Tax preparation companies

• Credit intermediation

• Corporations

• Financial services

• Banking

• Healthcare

• Technology

• Government agencies

• Non-profits

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Official job titles mapped to our programs

Accountants and Auditors: Examine, analyze, and interpret accounting records to prepare financial statements, give advice, or audit and evaluate statements prepared by others. Install or advise on systems of recording costs or other financial and budgetary data.

Appraisers of Personal and Business Property: Provide a value estimate on real estate and on tangible personal and business property.

Budget Analysts: Examine budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with procedures and regulations. Analyze budgeting and accounting reports.

Credit Analysts: Analyze credit data and financial statements of individuals or firms to determine the degree of risk involved in extending credit or lending money. Prepare reports with credit information for use in decision-making.

Financial Risk Specialists: Analyze and measure exposure to credit and market risk threatening the assets, earning capacity, or economic state of an organization. May make recommendations to limit risk.

Financial Examiners: Enforce or ensure compliance with laws and regulations governing financial and securities institutions and financial and real estate transactions. May examine, verify, or authenticate records.

Tax Examiners and Collectors, and Revenue Agents: Determine tax liability or collect taxes from individuals or business firms according to prescribed laws and regulations.

Tax Preparers: Prepare tax returns for individuals or small businesses.

Industries

• Public accounting firms

• Tax preparation companies

• Credit intermediation

• Corporations

• Financial services

• Banking

• Healthcare

• Technology

• Government agencies

• Non-profits

Click here to access additional program-specific information, or go to www.purdueglobal.edu.

Official job titles mapped to our programs

Accountants and Auditors: Examine, analyze, and interpret accounting records to prepare financial statements, give advice, or audit and evaluate statements prepared by others. Install or advise on systems of recording costs or other financial and budgetary data.

Appraisers of Personal and Business Property: Provide a value estimate on real estate and on tangible personal and business property.

Budget Analysts: Examine budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with procedures and regulations. Analyze budgeting and accounting reports.

Credit Analysts: Analyze credit data and financial statements of individuals or firms to determine the degree of risk involved in extending credit or lending money. Prepare reports with credit information for use in decision-making.

Financial Risk Specialists: Analyze and measure exposure to credit and market risk threatening the assets, earning capacity, or economic state of an organization. May make recommendations to limit risk.

Financial Examiners: Enforce or ensure compliance with laws and regulations governing financial and securities institutions and financial and real estate transactions. May examine, verify, or authenticate records.

Tax Examiners and Collectors, and Revenue Agents: Determine tax liability or collect taxes from individuals or business firms according to prescribed laws and regulations.

Tax Preparers: Prepare tax returns for individuals or small businesses.

Industries

• Public accounting firms

• Tax preparation companies

• Credit intermediation

• Corporations

• Financial services

• Banking

• Healthcare

• Technology

• Government agencies

• Non-profits

Click here to access additional program-specific information, or go to www.purdueglobal.edu.

Official job titles mapped to our programs

Accountants and Auditors: Examine, analyze, and interpret accounting records to prepare financial statements, give advice, or audit and evaluate statements prepared by others. Install or advise on systems of recording costs or other financial and budgetary data.

Tax Examiners and Collectors, and Revenue Agents: Determine tax liability or collect taxes from individuals or business firms according to prescribed laws and regulations.

Credit Analysts: Analyze credit data and financial statements of individuals or firms to determine the degree of risk involved in extending credit or lending money. Prepare reports with credit information for use in decision-making.

Budget Analysts: Examine budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with procedures and regulations. Analyze budgeting and accounting reports.

Tax Preparers: Prepare tax returns for individuals or small businesses.

Industries

• Public accounting firms

• Tax preparation companies

• Credit intermediation

• Corporations

• Financial services

• Banking

• Healthcare

• Technology

• Government agencies

• Non-profits

Click here to access additional program-specific information, or go to www.purdueglobal.edu.