Originally posted by: krunchykrome
Last semester undergrad student; current tax intern
As of January or February, I'll be a staff I accountant
I'm a tax CPA too.
I've seen the remarks from the "bean counter" group. I used my tax background to travel around the world, worked in Miami, NYC, Paris, Berlin etc.
I have my own small firm now. Tax and related issues are very important to small biz owner, GAAP is not.
I have constant (sometimes too much to get stuff actually done) interaction with clients. My office does the basic bookkeeping, payroll (my least favorite thing), & financial statement prep for our clients. I'm also frequently asked to reveiw contracts, look at possible investments, value businesses etc.
I started in 1983 with the "Big 8", did a lot of different stuff. We're more like a combination of lawyer & accountant/finance people.
As a tax CPA you can:
- Work in a tax dept.
- start your own firm.
- rep clients in tax court (simialr to lawyer)
- sell investments (get the other license, most people wanna know how the investment will be taxed)
- be a CFO (several new companies have asked me to be a CFO, tax planning/issues & compliance are very important.)
- sell P.O.S systems. (been asked to help with that etc.)
Shouldn't be hard to do a lot of things really. I know one former tax CPA that went to work for a national investment/brokerage company. He's making a killing selling retirement plans/investments to corp clients. But the long hrs during "busy season" do suck for us.
Fern