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Role of CPAs in the Overall Economy

Withum

My career was spent as a certified public accountant (CPA) and it was extremely rewarding since I was able to help many clients in many different situations. The independent reports of CPAs appear in every public company’s financial statements that are presented to investors and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

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The Role Of An Accountant: A Guide To Today’s Accountant’s Roles, Duties, And Responsibilities

Snyder

From early Mesopotamian records of goods sold and bought around 7,000 years ago to the first bookkeepers recording barters of goods around 2000 B.C. From the first attempts at single-entry bookkeeping in the 1400s to the invention of double-entry bookkeeping almost a hundred years after.