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Well do they, for business purposes? im looking for someone in the field for insight. accounting is the field im going into and i dont mind business related travel. id actually prefer it in a way. if so, which fields of accounting require travel? are they more rewarding than other accounting jobs?
Hmmm, I would think some accountants would have moderate travel. Those who work in audit (and for the BIG 4) would probably have the most travel opportunities, I assume. If you are a contract worker, that would likely give you greater flexibility for travel especially for any client-side service work. In this market, I would assume most firms are trying to reduce unnecessary travel expenditures.
Sales and airline positions probably still lead in regards to the amount of travel required on the job.
If you work in audit for one of the Big 4, or large regional, you will travel a lot during busy season. This is because the audits must take place at the client's location and often take weeks to conduct.
Smaller local firms won't have as much travel since their clients tend to be in the same town.
If you work in private, you may or may not travel depending on your position and company.
Can't speak to government, but I would guess that tax auditors and the IRS folks travel quite a bit.
My wife has been a Financial Analyst and Staff Accountant......didn't/doesn't travel at all! The only job she actually did travel on was for three training sessions to Mich. from North Carolina. The companies Corporate Headquarters/Accounting Dept. was in Michigan, but was going to be in the process of moving to North Carolina. All three times, I (her husband) went to Michigan with her.......I was unemployed at the time.
Now, I have got a friend who is a CPA/Auditor and he travels all the time and loves it.........he is not married!
Auditors typically travel alot...well actually auditors for large CPA firms or internal auditors for large corporations that is. I suppose auditors for small CPA firms may not travel too much.
I am an auditor and my career has required alot of travel. It was OK when I was single but now I am married and wish I could travel less...but I service large corporations and the nature of the position is to travel to locations away from the corporate HQ and review operations there.
Lot's of audit jobs for big companies can be as much as 50%-100% travel
And by the same token, working as a financial accountant or controller for a non-accounting firm means that you would seldom if ever travel for business, unless you were in the situation that LoveBoating describes where you had to travel to company HQ for training or something.
The one possible exception would be if you needed to take a particular course for your CPA continuing education credits that was only offered in a distant location. However, with the prevalence of online courses these days, it's much less likely now than it was a decade or two ago that you'd even need to travel then.
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