Category: Let's talk
Are you one?
what are the goods and the bad to being one and blind?
is it hard to be one and blind?
What do you fine most dificult?
How do you do something different that a sighted person doesn't do?
Any addvise for someone who would like to become one?
What should I know before getting in the career?
What part in accounting is hardest and why for a blind person?
What part is easyest and why?
Anything adn everything ealseelse?
Well, there will e challenges. Professionally I don't know too much about the accessibility of accounting software such as SAP for instance, also if there are any receipts or other papers involved one would have to be extremely organized orhave an assistant to record that information appropriately.
Accounting is also a bit of a visual task in that visualizing the layout, sums and vrious information does help to understand the concepts. That being said, I don't see why a blind person could not succeed. I've taken 4 or 5 accounting courses, somewhat advanced some of them. It took a lot of work and work arounds, creative use of Excel and even notepad and word pad, braille printing defeinitely helps alot so you can visualize assets and liabilies vs the income statement, and then split them up so various ratios can be derived.
Its' ahrd to go into specifics honestly, you have to like complex rules and be comfortable with basica algebra, percentages and having to memorize a heck of a lot of information and be able to visualize or somehow grasp it all in your head to draw conclutions from it. You have 15 ratios or more, you have to look at them, know what their values should be, what could skew them one way or the other and then interprete them, figure out what they mean, what the reason is and make recommendations.
I haven't done tax accounting yet, it's different in many asepcts.
Basically, it's doable, it's not easy, I can help with more specific questions, but yours are just kind of a bit too general to be able to really answer, and besides I neither have, nor to I intend to, complete a CPA so I am just not qualified to answer them.
cheers
-B
Depends on what type of accounting you want to do. It's such a broad field there's no way to answer that. I've taken basic accounting and it's easy as long as you are good at math and excel. I'd look for a corporate job where as much information as possible is available electronically. You should really talk to a college adviser to see what different kinds of jobs are out there.