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Accounting industry in the usa

Of the various specialized areas of accounting that exist, the three most important are: auditing, income taxation, non-business organizations.

Auditors are accountants who estimate the accuracy of a company’s financial statements, and if they find any disagreements in documents with generally accepted accounting principles, they will be responsible to inform about them in their report.

Income taxation as the second area of accounting specialization includes determination of a company’s taxes according to the existing laws. The tax accountant sometimes may be a lawyer, because if there had been any changes in tax law, he would have informed the company about it.

A third area of specialization is accounting for non-business organizations, such as universities, hospitals, churches and government agencies. These organizations receive resources without paying for them, do not have profit orientation and have no defined ownership as such. As a result, these organizations have a number of differences in record keeping and in the form of the financial statements.