HI5020: Analyzing Corporate Accounting Job Advertisements and Skills

This report analyzes corporate accounting job advertisements sourced from online job portals like Seek and Indeed. The report examines a sample of 30 job postings to identify the qualifications, experiences, and personal attributes employers seek in corporate accountants. It discusses essential qualities such as creativity, reliability, knowledge, ethical behavior, and accuracy. The report further explores the influence of these attributes on an accountant's performance and career progression. Additionally, it details the academic and professional qualifications, including accounting principles, standards, and experience levels, that are typically required for these roles. The assignment aligns with the HI5020 Corporate Accounting unit, assessing the student's understanding of job market demands and the skills needed for success in corporate accounting. The report includes detailed answers to specific questions related to job analysis, skill requirements, and the impact of advertising on professional development.

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Executive summary:
This completed report in common is about different online job portals. These job portals are
generally provided some offers for different types of jobs. However, in this report, only
corporate accounting jobs are recognizing the importance. After providing the individual
corporate accounting job details, this report is providing basic personal attributes, which is
required for an individual professional to conduct their performance. Next to such personal
attributes, this report is providing the personal as well as some academic qualifications that
require in maintaining the overall organizational objectives. Next to such details, this report is
providing some relevant details about MPA unit HI5020 and the impacts of both the
advertisement and MPA unit HI5020 on individual professionals.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................3
Discussions:................................................................................................................................4
Question 1 Answer:................................................................................................................4
Question 2 Answers:..............................................................................................................5
Question 3 Answers:..............................................................................................................6
Question 4 Answers:..............................................................................................................6
Question 5 Answers:..............................................................................................................9
Question 6 Answers:............................................................................................................12
Question 7 Answers:............................................................................................................13
Question 8 Answers:............................................................................................................14
Question 9 Answers:............................................................................................................15
Conclusions:.............................................................................................................................16
References:...............................................................................................................................18
APPENDIX:.............................................................................................................................21

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Introduction:
In past days, which are before starting the uses of internet service, every work is
normally done through manual processing. Like many other things, internet services have
changed the way of conduct and performance so easily that everything would be possible by
just a single click. In earlier, to find a reasonable and accurate job, a qualified person needs to
search every doorstep of individual companies daily. However, there was no conformity
regarding such jobs. In the present scenario with the implementation of internet services,
many job portals are opened (Boddington 2017). Job portals are normally considered as one
type of online shop where a customer (the job seekers) can able to find his required job as per
his expectations.
In Australia, for such job searching purposes, many individual online job portals are
opened. Such job portals are named as; Seek, Indeed, APS job search, Australian Job
searches, etc. In such portals, many individual jobs are normally offered by the job providers.
Here, the job providers are mainly the hiring companies, who normally offer individual jobs
for job seekers. Those jobs usually depend upon the qualifications of each candidate.
However, in those job portals, many different types of jobs are daily enrolled to provide
proper jobs as per the candidates’ requirements (Brief 2018). Such jobs are relating to
Accountant, Tax consultant, Engineer, Doctor, Manager, etc. some of those job portals are
government-sponsored and some are privates.
In the case of accounting, many different jobs are normally offered in those job
portals. However those accountant jobs are also segregated in different types, such jobs are
like; corporate accountant, management accountant, Tax consultant, etc. With the using of
such job portals, many individual job seekers are tried to find out their expected jobs easily
(Bushman and Smith 2016). Such job portals are not only offering jobs for expertise only, but

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it also provides some relevant jobs for the fresh candidates who are just completing the
graduations.
To evaluate the corporate accounting jobs, every intended candidate are required basic
knowledge and some expert skills regarding the field of accounting. Followed the same
manner in case of a Tax accountant, such candidates are also required to alert about all the
relevant tax provisions including the amendment provisions and rules (Caskey and Laux
2016). This assignment is using the Seek; an online job portal in the case to find out the
individual job offers that are relating to corporate accounting. In this assignment mainly
followed the jobs that were offered from 1st September 2019.
Discussions:
Question 1 Answer:
In this assignment, a total of 30 jobs are using to analyse the jobs relating to corporate
accounting. Such jobs are relating to the corporate accountant, management accountant, tax
accountant, and consultant and also relating to senior accountant.
To analyse individual job portals, here used Seek and Indeed online portals that are
normally offered jobs relating to a corporate accountant. Here in the assignment from seek
online job portals, a total of 18 jobs are found, which are looking for a corporate and financial
accountant (SEEK 2019). Whereas from the Indeed portals, a total of 12 jobs is found, that
are offers jobs relating to corporate accountant and managerial & Tax accountant
(Au.indeed.com 2019).

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Question 2 Answers:

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Question 3 Answers:
Question 4 Answers:
According to the basic rules, a corporate accountant is required to maintain some
quality relating to his personal attributes. In other words, every corporate accountant needs to
carry some characteristics, which is personifies his personality (Council 2015). Such
character or personal attributes have been influenced by the personality of an accountant in
case to achieve goodwill during the journey of his carrier. Those personal quality attributes
are as follows;

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Creative nature:
An accountant is required to maintain the character of creativity. Such character is
used to personify and to make some positive impacts on the overall organizational goals.
Chain of reliability:
An accountant is required to follow the level of reliability. Including such reliability
and accountant is also need to be loyal and maintain the quality regarding his honesty during
the performance of his duties.
Basic Knowledge:
In the case of an accountant, he needs to maintain the depth of knowledge regarding
the particular subject. Such knowledge is used to provide him the necessary help in case to
achieve the goodwill as an accountant during his overall carrier.
Follow the rules:
An accountant is required to maintain the basic rules of accounts while performing his
duties. Such accounting rules and principles are generally considered as one of the vital
factors that influenced the overall performances of an accountant.
Maintain Accountability:
One of the vital factors, which is normally influenced the overall performance of an
accountant is the accountability. Such factors need to be maintained efficiently while an
accountant is conducting his performances (Dada, Kana and Abdullahi 2018).

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Improvement of skills:
As an accountant, the professional is always needed to make some relevant and
required improvement in his skills and techniques while performing his duties. Such
enhancing power is provide the proper and relevant guidance to an accountant in case to
perform his duties efficiently.
Enhancing accuracy level:
As a corporate accountant, the professional is needed to follow and enhance the level
of skills efficiently. Increasing such accuracy level provides some proper guidance to an
accountant in the case to perform his duties properly.
Attributes influence the learning:
The attributes relating to learning is considered as one of the influential factor that
affects the overall performance of an accountant. As an accountant, a professional is always
needed to increase the level of learning so that he probably can provide the best of his
performances (Edwards 2015).
Follow the ethical sense:
According to the APES 110 code of ethics, an accountant while performing his duties
is required to maintain all the relevant ethical parts efficiently. Such ethics is normally
influenced positively, while an accountant is performing his duties.

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Question 5 Answers:
The basic attributes that probably influenced the overall character of an accountant are
as follows;
Tools of Creativity:
In case of considering the quality attributes relating to an accountant, the nature and
level of creativity is consider as one of the vital factor that influenced the overall performance
efficiently. In the present scenario an accountant is always need to enhance the level of
creativeness during the period of his performance. For an accountant it is necessary to
improve the level of his individual capabilities through the implementation of some different
strategies. Such strategies are providing positive impacts in case to reduce or solve the overall
organizational hazards (Ehrhardt and Brigham 2016). Such hazards are normally creates
some burdens in case to achieve the overall organizational objectives properly.
Integrity:
Another quality attributes, which is influenced the overall character of an accountant
is the matter of integrity, trust and honesty. Three of those elements are provided some
required guidance to an accountant in case to perform his duties efficiently. Along with such
guidance those important elements are also used to achieve the overall goodwill of an
accountant during the period of his carrier (Ennew, Waite and Waite 2013). Along with the
above relevant elements of quality attributes another important thing is the level of
confidentiality, which is needed to maintain by an accountant while performing his duties.
Basic knowledge of subject:
As an accountant every professional should have the basic knowledge as well as some
depth knowledge relating to the accounting. Such knowledge is providing the proper

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guidance to an accountant in case to perform his duties diligently, so that the overall
organizational goal can be achieved easily.
Proper teamwork& guidance:
As an accountant, every professional need to maintain the documents of accounting
transactions &bookkeeping. While performing such duties an accountant needs to allow the
team work. Such teamwork is influenced the overall character of an accountant positively.
Those teamwork may be reflects through the meeting with clients or any relating co-
ordinated jobs that helps to achieved the desired goal of individual organizations (Fracassi
2016).
Skills relating to Organizations:
As a corporate accountant, professional needs to maintain a lot of paperwork. Such
paper work is relating to organizational transactions and relevant data, which is need to
maintain properly in case to perform overall organizational goals. To maintain such
documents an accountant need to keep some effective accounting and managerial knowledge
that influenced the overall performance of an organization (Gitman, Juchau and Flanagan
2015).
Improving the level of accuracy:
While performing the duty, an accountant is needed to maintain the level of his
performance more accurately so that the overall organization perfomannce can not be
influenced negetively. Such accuracy means, need to carefull about the misplacement of
single digit or not pointing a single comma in the required place etc. such misplacments or
inaccuracies might caused as a results of huge financial loss for an organization. It is one of

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the vital characteristics of an accountant to maintain the level of accuracy in his performance
while conducting his duties (Griffin, Kruger and Maturana 2017).
Character of learning:
An accountant is always needed to maintain the character, which is implies the nature
of learning. As a professional accountant, such person is required some strong knowledge
regarding to the accounting principles along with some relevant ideas. Such knowledge are
need to keep in up to date form, in the other words such accountant need to develop his
knowledge with the latest rules. Such up to date is like the using of latest amendments
relating to tax, accounting principles, applicable auditing and accounting standards etc. such
learning character is also need to maintain in flexible nature, which means the knowledge
should be changeable as per the client’s requirement (Gullifer and Payne 2015).
Maintain the ethical manner:
According to the provisions of APES 110 code of ethics, an accountant is always need
to maintain the proper ethics in case of performing his duties. Such ethical parts is like the
integrity, honesty, confidentiality, competence etc. Normally, an accountant is required to
maintain the proper level of ethics while performing his duties. For a professional accountant
the precious assets are the reputations that he earns using the level of his honesty and
reliability during the performance he is conducting. Generally, as an accountant, the
professional is need to follow the road with ethical manner so that it can be able to generate
the overall professional goal efficiently (Hoesli and MacGregor 2014).

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Question 6 Answers:
In accordance with the advertisement the general academic and professional
character, which is required to maintain by an accountant for the purpose of maintaining the
quality judgements are as follows (Kieso, Weygandt and Warfield 2019);
Qualifications relating to Professional field:
 Need to maintain and keep the basic knowledge relating to accounting and
accounting principles.
 Knowledge of General accepted accounting principles and relevant accounting
standards.
 At least 4 years’ knowledge as an accountant in any organizations.
 Need to maintain some strong verbal and written communication skills.
 Maintain some strong knowledge in numerical skills and problem solving manner.
 Need to maintain proper communication skills relating to management.
 Need to be good in communication along with the other team members
accordingly.
Qualifications relating to Professional field:
 Basic concepts of accounting and accounting principles.
 Need to maintain some professional qualifications and degrees like; Certified
Information system advisor (CISA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA),
Chartered Global management accountant (CGMA), Certified Internal auditor
(CIA), Certified Fraud examiner (CFE), Chartered Financial analyst (CFA) etc.

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Question 7 Answers:
In accordance with the concept that is provided in the MPA unit HI5020, a corporate
accounting is generally the concepts of theoretical methods along with the use of some
practical techniques relating to the accounting. The general area that were covered in this
MPA unit are relating to the legal procedures of formation a company, different procedures
that are used as the ways of profit distributions, methods that usually followed in case of
capital reconstruction, maintain the accounting principles while preparing the liquidated and
consolidated income statements and financial statements, some relevant accounting norms are
regulations relating to stock marketing etc. (Moreira 2019).
In case of advertisement the accountant is needed to maintain some basic relevant
character and professional qualities while performing his duties. In case of qualifications the
accountant is required to contain some professional and personal character in case of
performing his duties. Along with such qualification and qualities an accountant must need to
follow the Apes 110 proper code of ethics while performing his duties.
While evaluating the character of both the advertisement and the MPA unit HI5020
relating to corporate accounting is, in both of that case the main focused point is evaluating
the performance of an accountant. Such accountant is normally appointed in an organization
in case to perform the accounting duties more efficiently and accurately so that the overall
organizational goal can be achieved easily. While an accountant normally performs their
duties, they need to consider the basic accounting principles as well as basic guidelines in
case to maintain the formats of accounts, like maintain the consolidated financial statements
and income statements (Suwanda 2015). Generally an organization is appointing an
accountant with some basic character. Such character is like conducting the accounting
transactions in an efficient manner maintain the proper accounting principles and also
maintain the code of ethics in case of conducting the performance by an accountant. Even the

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MPA unit HI5020 is also expressing the same views regarding the accounting professional
aspects, in case to conducting the performance of an accountant (Tricker and Tricker 2015).
It can be conclude from the above discussions that, both the accounting task and
advertisements are providing the general views of character and qualities relating to an
accountant, which is need to maintain in case of conduct such professional duties more
efficiently. So that the overall organization’s goal can be derive easily.
Question 8 Answers:
While evaluating both the advertisements and MPA unit HI5020 relating to the
corporate accounting, the advertisement is generally expressing the views relating to the
requirement of an accountant and also the basic characteristics and qualities that is required to
maintain while performing such duties. However the MPA unit is unable to providing such
relevant factors. Generally the MPA unit is the theoretical framework an application of
practical techniques, which is relating to the corporate accounting groups. Such area which is
covered in this unit is like the procedures of legal formation of a company, different profit
distribution segments, capital reconstructions formats and also the process of preparations
consolidated financial and income statements etc. the main thing which is missing from such
unit is the quality and qualifications of an accountant. Even also the maintain of proper code
of ethics is also missing from such unit, that is the integrity, honesty and all, which are
provide some relevant character of an accountant. More over this MPA unit is not providing
any interest to some particular areas that is necessary to perform the accountant performance
diligently.

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Question 9 Answers:
In accordance with the requirement that is issued in the advertisement of job relating
to the corporate accountant is normally the quality and character of an accountant. Such
quality and character, which is need to maintain by an accountant in performing his duties.
Through the using of such quality and character an accountant is able to evaluate his overall
performance easily. Such attributes relating to the professional are as follows;
Accounting knowledge:
A qualified accountant who is generally appointed as per the requirement of the
companies, need to maintain some relevant and basic knowledge relating to the accounting
factors. Such knowledge is considered as the important factor that generally influenced the
overall organizational goals. So as a conclusion it can be considered that the knowledge of
accounting is one of the vital factor of accounting that make some positive as well as negative
impacts on their performances (Zeff 2016).
Maintain some professional qualification:
As per the advertisement an accountant needs to maintain some expertise and
professional qualifications in case to perform their duties efficiently. Such qualifications are
like; certified Information system advisor (CISA), Certified Management Accountant
(CMA), Chartered Global management accountant (CGMA), Certified Internal auditor (CIA),
Certified Fraud examiner (CFE), Chartered Financial analyst (CFA) etc.
Code of ethics:
As an accountant the professional needs to maintain the APES 110, the code of ethics
in case to perform accounting transactions efficiently. Generally with the using of such

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ethical parts an accountant is properly maintain the code of ethics, which is plays an
important role in case of individual and organizational goals.
Communications:
To perform any jobs the one of the important factors, which influenced most is the
communication. Through the proper communication process an accountant is able to perform
his duties diligently and in an effective manner. An accountant needs to be an expertise in
communications so that the overall organizational goal can be achieved.
Experience:
In case of performing a job one of the relevant factors that influenced most is the year
of experiences. Such experiences are used to personify the knowledge that an accountant
needs to carry in case of performing his duties.
Technical knowledge:
An accountant must need to be expertise in the technical fields. Such fields are like;
the accountant needs some advanced knowledge in relating to computer and also some
knowledge about technical using of different account methods. Such professional needs to
aware about different software, which are normally used to conduct any business
transactions.
Conclusions:
It can be concluded from the above discussion that the entire report is about the
presentation of different accounting jobs, which are normally offered by individual
companies through the using of online job portals. After providing the basic job details in
online job portals this report is providing the basic personal attributes, which are necessary in
case to performed individual accounting performance by an accountant. Next to such

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personal attributes this report is providing the personal as well as some academic
qualifications that are required to maintain the overall organizational objectives. Next to such
details this report is providing some relevant details about MPA unit HI5020 and impacts of
both the advertisement and MPA unit HI5020 between each other.

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