Auditors

$70.5K Median Salary 141.8K Job Openings (Annual Projection) 10% Job Growth

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About This Career

Examine and analyze accounting records to determine financial status of establishment and prepare financial reports concerning operating procedures.

Reported Job Titles

Assurance Manager, Assurance Senior, Audit Manager, Audit Partner, Auditor, Auditor-in-Charge, Financial Auditor, Internal Audit Director, Internal Auditor, Revenue Tax Specialist

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Abilities

Knowledge

Economics and Accounting English Language Mathematics Administration and Management Customer and Personal Service Law and Government Computers and Electronics

Skills

Technology Skills

Tools

Desktop computers Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers Laser fax machine Scanners Notebook computers Desktop calculator Personal computers Tablet computers

Abilities

Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.

Knowledge

Economics and Accounting: Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
English Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
Administration and Management: Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
Customer and Personal Service: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
Law and Government: Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
Computers and Electronics: Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

Skills

Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
Mathematics: Using mathematics to solve problems.
Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
Management of Personnel Resources: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
Instructing: Teaching others how to do something.
Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people.
Systems Evaluation: Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.

Technology Skills

Financial analysis software: Delphi Technology
Compliance software: Gensuite
Enterprise resource planning ERP software: Oracle PeopleSoft
Accounting software: Intuit QuickBooks
Analytical or scientific software: Computer modeling software; HATPRO; SAS; Statistical software
Data base user interface and query software: Data entry software; Database management software; Microsoft Access; Relational database software
Medical software: SRSsoft SRS EHR
Office suite software: Corel WordPerfect; Microsoft Office
Business intelligence and data analysis software: Tableau
Spreadsheet software: IBM Lotus 1-2-3; Microsoft Excel
Word processing software: Microsoft Word
Presentation software: Microsoft PowerPoint
Data mining software: Google Analytics
Project management software: Microsoft Project
Electronic mail software: Email software; Microsoft Outlook
Enterprise system management software: IBM Power Systems software; Splunk Enterprise
Graphics or photo imaging software: Microsoft Visio
Development environment software: Adobe Systems Adobe Creative Suite
Video creation and editing software: YouTube
Operating system software: Apple macOS; Microsoft operating system; Microsoft Windows
Data base management system software: Microsoft SQL Server
Transaction security and virus protection software: SSL
Object or component oriented development software: Python; R
Time accounting software: Timekeeping software
Information retrieval or search software: DOC Cop; iParadigms Turnitin

Tools

Desktop computers:
Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers: Personal digital assistants PDA
Laser fax machine: Laser facsimile machines
Scanners: Computer data input scanners
Notebook computers:
Desktop calculator: Desktop calculators
Personal computers:
Tablet computers:

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