Accountants engage in a wide variety of activities besides preparing financial statements and recording business transactions including computing costs and efficiency gains from new technologies, participating in strategies for mergers and acquisitions, quality management, developing and using information systems to track financial performance, tax strategy, and health care benefits management. ... Budget analysts run a small part of this branch. ... Besides the usual skills many budget analyst jobs require good people skills because of negotiations involved in the work. ... As one report sa...

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Brady Ware, an accounting office in Dayton, has eliminated paper and pencil accounting in their office and has switched to a totally computer based accounting office system. ... People may not realize it, but I think that computerized systems make work less stressful. ... If you have been doing something one way for 25 years, you are not going to be thrilled about having to change your whole system. ... Analysts say that the company is now recovering from the millions in losses. ... Canada has three different parts in the retirement system: Canada Pension Plan, Old Age Security, and registere...

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Before long it was the darling of Wall Street as analysts heaped praise on the firm for its "unique" approach in bringing high-tech complex finance to energy trading. ... For example they are less likely to criticise the results from a new accounting system that was put in by their own consultancy division. ...

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Executives there tried to fool the Wall Street analysts with a complex web of partnerships and questionable accounting practices (Under Investigation: Enron 2003). ... The corruption has saturated the system. ...

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