[jsfg_cinti] Re: Accounting firm vacancy

Hey Bill,
Looks like you had your chance, maybe you should move on.
Past member and now employed.

--- Bill Matthews <mrbill0626@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Hello again and a good day to all!
>    
>   Got a question for any of you out there who have worked in public 
> accounting and/or accounting in private industry, for that matter:
>    
>   I recently sent a resume to a local CPA firm where I had previously worked 
> as a temp during the tax season of 2006, preparing individual income tax 
> returns. The currently vacant position there that I sent my resume to them 
> about is a Staff Accountant position, a permanent position. 
>    
>   During the temp job there in 2006, I only prepared tax returns and had no 
> contact at all with the clients whose tax returns I was preparing. Well, I 
> made some errors then on some of the tax returns and the partner who is in 
> charge of tax returns and who was reviewing my work wasn't too satisfied with 
> my overall work,  and he as much as told me so. Well, see,I had no contact 
> with any of the clients to ask them questions (he would not let me contact 
> any if them,probably for fear I might try try to steal some of them as 
> clients) and no previous experience with their accounting work or records  
> and yet I was expected to know or be prepared to do their tax returns. Does 
> that seem like a stretch or what?
>    
>   Well, I want to contact then again and see if I can get together with them 
> about the current Staff Accountant position, and it just seems to me that  a 
> staff accountant, who has worked during the year with the accounting records 
> of clients, has a better understanding of their situation and therefore is 
> better able to handle preparing their tax return. I hope I'm right about 
> that, or partly so, anyway.
>    
>   Anyone have any suggestions as to whether or not it would be wise to 
> contact them, to try to get an interview and what I might say to them either 
> when I call them or in the interview, if I get one?
>    
>   Thanks
>    
>   Bill Matthews
> 
>  Let's take time today and everyday to "stop & smell the roses". "Tomorrow" 
> may never come.
>    
>    
>   Peace & Love
>    
>   Bill
> 
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