JOB DESCRIPTION
TITLE:                                   Staff Accountant
CLASSIFICATION:              Full-time, exempt
REPORTS TO:                       Senior Accountants, Engagement Managers or Engagement Partners

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES.

Staff accountants are supervised by senior accountants or other, more experienced, staff accountants.    Initially, they are given less complex accounting and tax assignments. As they gain experience, they are given more difficult assignments and greater responsibilities.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS.

1.         Understand the firm's policies and procedures.

2.         Understand the rules, requirements and code of conduct of that AICPA and the authoritative literature established by the FASB and GASB,

3.         Become familiar with pertinent IRC sections and regulations.

4.         Obtain a working knowledge of tax and accounting research techniques and the various research sources in the firm library.

5.         Obtain a working knowledge of firm technology, including the use of CD- ROM, e-mail and the Internet; and the use of firm spreadsheet, word processing, tax preparation, and time and billing and other software.

6.         Become proficient preparing corporate, individual, partnership, fiduciary and other tax returns prepared by the firm.

7.         Assume responsibility for tax return preparation under the supervision of more experienced staff.

8.         Perform assigned audit procedures for specific accounts and transactions under the supervision of more experienced staff.

OTHER FUNCTIONS

9.         Perform other duties as assigned from time to time by the senior accountants, engagement managers or engagement partners.

WORKING CONDITIONS

10.        Involved working in the firm's office or on the client's premises. Work on the client's premises may require the use of the staff member's personal car.

11.        Moderate to low overtime required throughout the year. High level of overtime may be required to complete audit and tax engagements.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

12.        Staff accountants normally have zero to three years experience in public accounting.   However, since we do no auditing, the candidate will require 500 hours of audit experience or the equivalent of the 150 unit accounting degree.

REQUIRED EDUCATION

13.               Staff accountants must have:  1. A 150 unit undergraduate degree in accounting, or         2. A bachelors degree and the required accounting units to meet the 150 unit accounting requirement to be licensed as a CPA , or  3.  An undergraduate degree and have completed at least 30 hours in college-level accounting courses and have a minimum 500 hours of auditing experienced.

This job description does not list all the duties required of this position. The employee may be asked to perform other instructions and duties. The employee will be evaluated among other things based on performance of the duties listed in this job description.

Management reserves the right to revise this job description at any time. The job description is not a contract for employment and, consistent with the "at-will" relationship, either the employee or the firm may terminate employment at any time, for any reason.