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A financial fraud examiner already meets 24% of what the accountant role asks for. The move turns on 19 required skills not yet in the profile.
24%
79.4/ 100
1 Share of the accountant role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the financial fraud examiner profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Why this move works
A accountant role treats 7 of its required skills as things a financial fraud examiner already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- ensure compliance with accounting conventions
- financial statements
- fraud detection
- identify accounting errors
- interpret financial statements
- prepare financial statements
What stands in the way is 19 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 12 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A accountant role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a financial fraud examiner background worth leading with.
- already held identify accounting errors information skills
- already held ensure compliance with accounting conventions information skills
- already held manage corporate bank accounts management skills
- already held national generally accepted accounting principles business, administration and law
- already held international financial reporting standards business, administration and law
- already held prepare financial auditing reports information skills
All 12 carried skills, including the 7 the accountant role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 45 missing skills fall into 7 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held accounting department processes required
- required, not held commercial law required
- required, not held depreciation required
- required, not held financial department processes required
- required, not held accounting entries required
- required, not held accounting techniques required
- required, not held bookkeeping regulations required
- optional, not held financial forecasting optional
- optional, not held insolvency law optional
- optional, not held liquidity management optional
- required, not held analyse financial performance of a company required
- required, not held calculate tax required
- required, not held check accounting records required
- required, not held prepare tax returns forms required
- required, not held prepare trial accounting balances required
- optional, not held keep track of expenses optional
- optional, not held monitor after sales records optional
- optional, not held advise on risk management optional
- optional, not held calculate production costs optional
- optional, not held manage payroll reports optional
- optional, not held perform risk analysis optional
- required, not held attach accounting certificates to accounting transactions required
- required, not held explain accounting records required
- required, not held manage accounts required
- required, not held perform balance sheet operations required
- optional, not held resolve difficult account allocation cases optional
- optional, not held check the production schedule optional
- optional, not held manage inventory optional
- optional, not held support development of annual budget optional
- optional, not held evaluate budgets optional
- optional, not held exert expenditure control optional
- optional, not held handle financial transactions optional
- optional, not held manage budgets optional
- optional, not held manage revenue optional
- optional, not held perform cost accounting activities optional
- required, not held draft accounting procedures required
- optional, not held consult with motion picture producer optional
- optional, not held consult with production director optional
- optional, not held advise on financial matters optional
- optional, not held disseminate information on tax legislation optional
- optional, not held liaise with auditors optional
- optional, not held perform dunning activities optional
- required, not held follow the statutory obligations required
- required, not held statistics required
1 further area in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a accountant role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 accounting department processes knowledge · sector specific
- 02 commercial law knowledge · sector specific
- 03 depreciation knowledge · sector specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 12 skills that carry over
- already held ensure compliance with accounting conventions skill
- already held financial statements knowledge
- already held fraud detection knowledge
- already held identify accounting errors skill
- already held interpret financial statements skill
- already held prepare financial statements skill
- already held tax legislation knowledge
- already held conduct financial audits skill
- already held international financial reporting standards knowledge
- already held manage corporate bank accounts skill
- already held national generally accepted accounting principles knowledge
- already held prepare financial auditing reports skill
The 1 learning area not shown above
- optional, not held film production process optional
26 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held keep track of expenses optional
- optional, not held resolve difficult account allocation cases optional
- optional, not held check the production schedule optional
- optional, not held consult with motion picture producer optional
- optional, not held consult with production director optional
- optional, not held film production process optional
- optional, not held manage inventory optional
- optional, not held monitor after sales records optional
- optional, not held support development of annual budget optional
- optional, not held advise on financial matters optional
- optional, not held advise on risk management optional
- optional, not held calculate production costs optional
- optional, not held disseminate information on tax legislation optional
- optional, not held evaluate budgets optional
- optional, not held exert expenditure control optional
- optional, not held financial forecasting optional
- optional, not held handle financial transactions optional
- optional, not held insolvency law optional
- optional, not held liaise with auditors optional
- optional, not held liquidity management optional
- optional, not held manage budgets optional
- optional, not held manage payroll reports optional
- optional, not held manage revenue optional
- optional, not held perform cost accounting activities optional
- optional, not held perform dunning activities optional
- optional, not held perform risk analysis optional
14 held skills the accountant role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role anti-dumping law knowledge
- not needed by the target role banking activities knowledge
- not needed by the target role criminal law knowledge
- not needed by the target role detect financial crime skill
- not needed by the target role financial jurisdiction knowledge
- not needed by the target role financial products knowledge
- not needed by the target role forensic intelligence knowledge
- not needed by the target role identify if a company is a going concern skill
- not needed by the target role international law knowledge
- not needed by the target role interpret law skill
- not needed by the target role liaise with managers skill
- not needed by the target role perform forensic accounting skill
- not needed by the target role public offering knowledge
- not needed by the target role trace financial transactions skill
12 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held accounting department processes required
- required, not held commercial law required
- required, not held depreciation required
- required, not held financial department processes required
- required, not held accounting entries required
- required, not held accounting techniques required
- required, not held bookkeeping regulations required
- required, not held statistics required
- optional, not held film production process optional
- optional, not held financial forecasting optional
- optional, not held insolvency law optional
- optional, not held liquidity management optional
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.