public accountant

public accountant
An individual licensed to perform defined accounting and auditing activities for the public. The range of activities undertaken by modern public accountants includes (i) the giving of *external audit opinions, (ii) the provision of financial accounting and taxation services, and (iii) other *management advisory services. The history of public accounting has been succinctly summarized as follows: Public accounting "was born through *bankruptcies, fed on failures and *fraud, grew on liquidations and graduated through audits" (quoted in Matthews et al., 1998, 93). See also *Certified Public Accountant.

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