Budget accountant vs certified public accountant

Differences between budget accountant and certified public accountant duties and responsibilities

Budget accountant example responsibilities.

• Manage the review, enhancement, and creation of department policy and procedure documentation require for Sarbanes-Oxley auditing and compliance.
• Prepare budgets, reconciliations and outcome reports for grants.
• Facilitate data transfer and reconciliation between systems (TSI/T-II and PeopleSoft).
• Review staffing compensations, medical benefits, professional insurances, headcount, and FTE metrics.
• Collaborate extensively with CPA's office during preliminary and year-end audit/review process to ensure completeness of financial statements and tax returns.
• Develop ROI analysis model for propose capital investments and authore requirements policy and process flow, which streamline decision-making process.

Certified public accountant example responsibilities.

• Mentor highly skil accounting and tax management team to achieve establish objectives including conformity with GAAP compliance.
• Maintain monthly client bookkeeping including bank reconciliations, account payable and prepare preliminary financial statements for CPA review.
• Conduct bookkeeping, bank reconciliations and generate general ledgers as well as raise concerns about expenditure classifications and revenue recognition.
• Prepare and review month-end close, including journal entries, general ledger account reconciliations, and financial statement supporting documentation.
• Gain a working knowledge of audit objectives and procedures in compliance with GAAP and GAAS.
• Prepare and monitor audit programs, assist management in design and monitoring of SOX compliance programs.
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