Prompt #8: Practicing My Knowledge

     In regard to practicing my knowledge exercise, I sought hands-on experience in the field of accounting, matters finance. Having hands-on experience is apparently one of the most valuable things one can have in the eyes of employers. Accounting is the field that I have identified myself with in relation to my area of practice. I visited one of the biggest organizations in the state and sought a chance to practice as an accountant. I worked in the capacity of an assistant accountant in the company with the help of the senior accountant called Alex Montgomery. Here is a snapshot of my experience and what I learned about what my field entails. First, the work requires knowledge and skills about the underlying accounting standards. This is important presentation and reporting of financial information. Second, an accountant in any given day prepares financial reporting approaches including the balance sheet, cash flows, income statement, and cashbook among other things. In my research about what my work entails, I took the exercise for a day-long period which allowed me to learn, practice and experiment a few things that are important to all managers and accountants. Therefore, as an aspiring accounting officer, auditor and ultimately manager, I have armed myself with skills required to carry out the job in the field. The hands-on experience revealed to me a couple of things that I found different from theory and what I have read in blogs about the job. For example, as an accountant, you have to manually and physically prepare financial statements. Here, one only needs to understand what to credit and what to debit where applicable. The process is not as complicated as the exercises I see in books and Internet. Hence, the truth is that the accounting work is interesting.

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Works Cited

Merrimack College. Internships offer Students the Opportunity to Gain Valuable hands-on experience. 2017. Web. Accessed on 10 Oct 2017.

Smith, Jacquelyn. ”When the Employer requires Experience and you and have none,” Forbes Leadership. 2013. Web. Accessed on 10 Oct 2017.