With the certificate of certified public accountant, financial personnel can go to accounting affairs (including the Big Four and Big Eight), financial institutions, multinational companies such as the top 500, large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises and government agencies.
If you develop in a non-financial direction, you can also go to the financial industry.
There is a lot of knowledge about the combination of finance and accounting in the examination content of certified public accountants, and the financial industry is not completely unfamiliar to certified public accountants. And institutions engaged in financial work, especially investment banks, brokers, fund companies, etc. , always inevitably come into contact with corporate financial statements, people with financial background may not have an accounting foundation. At this point, an accountant with professional financial knowledge becomes an excellent candidate. Facts have proved that many headhunters will give priority to certified public accountants when helping financial institutions recruit talents. In addition, many "Big Four" certified public accountants have jumped ship to financial institutions, which has developed very well.
You can also enter the firm to do audit work.
The main business of accounting firms is auditing. Audit is an independent economic supervision activity that examines major projects and financial revenues and expenditures of governments, financial institutions, enterprises and institutions at all levels according to law. To put it bluntly, accounting firms basically undertake most of the audit work, and examine whether the business activities of national governments, financial institutions and enterprises are reasonable according to law. There are six subjects in the CPA exam, one of which is the process of auditing and CPA exam, that is, the process of getting familiar with the auditing discipline. It is a very scientific and effective way for those who want to enter the Big Four to engage in auditing.