Corporate Accountant Qualifications and Experience: HI5020 Report

This report analyzes job advertisements from various online portals to determine the qualifications and experience employers seek in corporate accountants. The report begins with an executive summary and an introduction that highlights the shift from traditional to online job searching. It then addresses specific questions related to the number of job advertisements found, the companies offering positions, and the required personal attributes for corporate accountants, such as accuracy, ethics, and organizational skills. The analysis includes a discussion on the influence of personal attributes on a corporate accountant's performance, emphasizing ethics, teamwork, and learning attributes. The report also details the academic and professional qualifications, including degrees and certifications, expected of corporate accountants, and relates the findings to the HI5020 corporate accounting framework and practical techniques. Finally, the report concludes by summarizing the key findings and their implications for aspiring corporate accountants, providing a comprehensive overview of the skills and qualifications needed to succeed in the field.

Running head: CORPORATE ACCOUNTING
CORPORATE ACCOUNTING
Name of Student:
Name of the University:
Authors’ note:

1CORPORATE ACCOUNTING
Executive Summary:
In this report, some of the job portals are offering various kinds of jobs which is
related to accounting have been analyzed. The personal attributes which is necessary for the
accountant after the individual’s job details is being provided is stated in this report. To
maintain the qualities of a corporate accountant, it is important to indicate the individual’s
academic and professional qualification. The details about HI5020 the corporate accounting,
the evaluation of the corporate accounting details is being provided.

2CORPORATE ACCOUNTING
Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................3
Discussion:.................................................................................................................................4
Answer to Question 1:............................................................................................................4
Answer to Question 2.............................................................................................................4
Answer to Question 3:............................................................................................................5
Answer to Question 4:............................................................................................................7
Answer to Question 5:............................................................................................................8
Answer to Question 6:..........................................................................................................10
Answer to Question 7:..........................................................................................................11
Answer to Question 8:..........................................................................................................12
Conclusion:..............................................................................................................................14

3CORPORATE ACCOUNTING
Introduction:
Usually, the employees used to visit the offices to get an opportunity for a job; before
there were online job search facilities. Nowadays, a person can find a perfect job in the online
job portal; if he/she gets qualified using the online portal facilities. Many job portals are used
for the job opportunities in Australia, many of them are Government sponsor and some of
them are private. Thousands of jobs are posted as a requirement for job seekers in those job
portals. Some of the job portals which have many job opportunities such as Indeed, Seek,
Australian Job search, APS jobs are posted according to the requirements.
Many job opportunities are available, which is related to accounting. Some of the jobs
are like tax accountant, corporate financial and management accountant, corporate
accountant, senior financial accountant, corporate and management accountant, senior
accountant: tax and corporate reporting etc. Most of the account graduates are finding their
particular jobs through portals, there in such portals the employers also gets help for getting
the perfect required candidates. (Dorstyn et al. 2018)
The main requirement for the corporate jobs is that, the candidate should get a proper
qualification related to accounts; it will be beneficial if they got some other skills related to
the professional filed which will help in the workplace. For example, a Tax Consultant needs
to expertise in Tax provisions; in managerial field need to have knowledge in managing the
profession. The job portals are providing some valuable job opportunities for the senior
employees, related to the subject’s depth and knowledge.
The main jobs are being pointed and posted in the job portal of Indeed and Seek for
the tax accountant and corporate accountant for the period of 22nd July, 2019 (SEEK). The job
which is published in particular fields is mainly required for the commerce graduates and in
some of the other specializations in specific subjects (Au.indeed.com 2019).

4CORPORATE ACCOUNTING
Discussion:
Answer to Question 1:
The number of job advertisement which is found during the evaluation of the process
is 20; which is related to organizational and management accountant, the senior accountant
pertaining to tax and corporation report, corporate accountant, Tax accountant, and corporate
financial accountant.
Two of the job portals which is used during the evaluation of the process is Seek and
Indeed. Out of 20, 10 jobs are found from Indeed portal and other 10 jobs are found in Seek
portal.
Answer to Question 2.
The different kind of jobs which are offered by the companies relating to the senior
accountant, organizational and management accountant, corporate accountant, Tax
accountant, corporate financial accountant are as follows (Au.indeed.com, 2019):
2XM Finance—Finance Company.
Moore Stephens (WA) Pty Ltd.—Auditing and Finance company.
Paybang Pty Ltd—Finance Company
Michael Page Accounting & Finance—Finance Company
Sharp & carter Finance and accounting Sydney—Finance Company
Slater and Gordon- Consulting and business services
Pherrus Financial services.—Financial service
Mine Super—Coal and Mine Industry.
AUB group Limited—Insurance company

5CORPORATE ACCOUNTING
Moody's Investors Service- Financial Service
Hays Accountancy & Finance.—Finance Company
Queensland Treasury Corporation –Financial Advisory
Mader Group- Financial and Auditing Company.
Infocus money management— Wealth management industry
Accenture—Communications, media and technology
Broad construction— Construction Industry
Crawford and company — Insurance industry
Macias Consulting Pty limited— Consulting and business services
Giant Corporate - Finance Analyst
Crawford and Company – Financial Company
Cummins Inc. – Tax and Reporting Analyst
Terex Corporation - Tax and Finance Company
Crisdale Group of Companies – Business services and Tax Accountant
Sharp & Carter – Financial Company
Cartlon United Breweries— Brewing industry
Delaware North companies — Hospitality and food services
PRIME Global Talent – Auditing Advisory
Lion Pty Ltd- Advisory industry
Noni B group support office- Consulting services

6CORPORATE ACCOUNTING
Answer to Question 3:
In the process of making the evaluation of the job advertisement, many companies
found those who posted the criteria for employee requirement (SEEK, 2019). The names of
the companies are as follows:
Name of Job Name of the Company
Corporate And Management Accountant 1. 2XM Finance
2. Moore Stephens (WA) Pty Ltd
3. Paybang Pty Ltd
4. Michael Page Accounting &
Finance
5. Moody's Investors Service
Corporate Accountant
1. Pherrus Financial services
2. Sharp & carter Finance and
accounting Sydney
3. Hays Accountancy & Finance
4. Queensland Treasury Corporation
5. Giant Corporate
Tax Accountant 1. Cummins Inc.
2. Terex Corporation
3. Crisdale Group of Companies
4. Queensland Treasury Corporation
Corporate financial and management 1. PRIME Global Talent

7CORPORATE ACCOUNTING
accountant 2. Sharp & Carter
3. Crisdale Group of Companies
4. Crawford and Company
5. Mader Group
6. Pherrus Financial services
Senior Accountant : Tax and corporate
reporting
1. 2XM Finance
2. Paybang Pty Ltd
3. Slater and Gordon
4. Sharp & carter Finance and
accounting Sydney
5. Noni B group support office
6. Lion Pty Ltd
7. Moody's Investors Service
8. Queensland Treasury Corporation
Answer to Question 4:
In evaluating the personal attributes relating to the Corporate Accountant are as
follows:
Accuracy:
The professionals need to be very accurate, as a corporate accountant while
performing the duties; so that they can improve the accuracy level.
Ethics:

8CORPORATE ACCOUNTING
The ethical standard should be maintained by the accountant while performing the
duties. Proper integrity and honesty should be shown during the performance.
Improvement of Skills:
The organizational skills should be improved for the betterment of the organization
while performing his managerial and operational skills.
Learning attributes:
An accountant should always learn while performing, it should show the learning
attributes.
Performing duties related to norms:
At the time of performing the duties of the accountant should maintain all the details
which is being mentioned in the norms.
Creative:
The professional need to maintain a level of creativeness; so that it can make positive
impacts in the organization.
Sense of accountability:
The accountants should have a proper accounting sense of accounting knowledge,
therefore it will be easy and the time consumption will be less.
Reliability and trustworthiness:
While performing the duties, the accountant should be loyal, reliable and honest.
Answer to Question 5:
The personal attributes and individual’s performance can probably influence the
character of the corporate accountant is as follows:

9CORPORATE ACCOUNTING
Increasing the level of accuracy:
The accountant should maintain the level of accuracy at the time of his performance.
A small misplacement of a digit can result to a huge loss in an organization. Therefore, the
performance level accuracy of an accountant has to be increased while performing his duties.
Ethics of a Corporate Accountant:
Ethics can be considered as the primary field related to human ethics as well as
business ethics. The ethical manner is the reflection of accounting ethics and accounting
application is of moral judgments. During the performance, honesty can be earned through
giving a performance with precious and valuable assets. The road of principles should be
followed by the accountant to generate a long term success in the service life (Lakshmi and
Menon 2016).
Ability to work:
The team effort is needed to perform the accounting and bookkeeping. In the duty, the
accountant should have the ability to work in a group. The team work can be of many types,
it can be meeting with the clients, or it can be anything related to work to achieve the goal of
the organization (Spraakman et al. 2015).
Learning Attributes:
The accountant should have a strong base of accounting with some of the innovative
ideas. Therefore, the knowledge should be up to date so that they can perform in a flexible
situation. The implications of the new theories, laws, taxation need to be continuously update
so that they can handle the circumstances easily. The accountant should have an up-to-date
knowledge relating to other fields and news (Jackling and Natoli 2015). If they do not have
the learning attributes then he will not be considered as the assets of the organisation.

10CORPORATE ACCOUNTING
Organizational skills:
In an organization, the accountant has to work most of the time with financial data on
individual basis. Therefore, it is important for an accountant to have an effective knowledge
and skills of the organizational activities.
Field Knowledge:
The accountant should have some basic as well as extraordinary knowledge which is
related to specific fields. The basic objective is to have a specific goal which is related to
specific fields along with the case of conduct his duties efficiently.
Creativity:
The proper improvements which have an individual have related to accounts should
be increased through creative ways. The accounting techniques of an accountant need to
develop the capabilities by issuing some fresh and innovative ideas. The individual strategies
should be implemented to solve the complexities and issues relating to the organizational
achievements.
Trust and Reliability:
The basic quality which an accountant needs to maintain is the trust and reliability.
On behalf of the goodwill, these qualities are considered as the assets of an accountant in the
field of individually. An accountant needs to maintain proper confidentially while performing
duties for an organization (Cyphert and Lyle 2016).
Answer to Question 6:
The individual academic and professional qualification those are required to maintain
as the qualities of a corporate accountant are given below;
For Corporate Accountant:

11CORPORATE ACCOUNTING
Some of the basic and specific concepts which are needed in relation to accounts and
accounting principles and should possess some of the qualities like integrity, honesty.
To be an accountant, some of the degrees are needed such as Certified Management
Accountant (CMA), Chartered Financial analyst (CFA), Chartered Global management
accountant (CGMA), Certified Fraud examiner (CFE), Certified Internal auditor (CIA) and
Certified Information system advisor (CISA).
An accountant must have an experience minimum of 4yeras experience, should
have a Strong numerical skills, Excellent time management, Strong written and verbal
English, good communication skills, Proven accuracy, Minimum intermediate level of Excel,
Team player, Preferred Xero and SAP business one (Lim et al. 2016).
Answer to Question 7:
The theatrical framework and using of practical techniques which is related to
accounting for corporate groups according to the HI5020 the corporate accounting, is focused
particularly in accounting. The formation of the company, procedures of capital
reconstruction, the distribution segments of profits, preparations of liquidated and
consolidated income statements and financial statements are all followed by the accounting
standards and principles along with the regulations related to stock exchanges.
An accountant should follow the advertisements and should have the basic
qualities which are related to academic as well as professional qualities. The person should
maintain the honesty and integrity while performing duties, and also need to cover some of
the professional degrees in some areas to able to perform the duties efficiently (Bennett et al.
2016).
In corporate accounting, the basic relation between the advertisement and the
HI5020 is that the accountant needs to deliver his duties towards the organization efficiently,