Competencies Accountant near Calgary (AB)

Find out what competencies you typically need to work as an accountant in Canada.

Skills Help - Skills

  • Accountants
    Proficiency or complexity level
    Monitoring 4 - High Level
    Digital Literacy 4 - High Level
    Numeracy 4 - High Level
    Oral Communication: Oral Comprehension 4 - High Level
    Evaluation 4 - High Level
    Problem Solving 4 - High Level
    Management of Financial Resources 4 - High Level
    Systems Analysis 4 - High Level
    Coordinating 3 - Moderate Level
    Instructing 3 - Moderate Level
  • Financial auditors
    Proficiency or complexity level
    Monitoring 4 - High Level
    Digital Literacy 4 - High Level
    Numeracy 4 - High Level
    Oral Communication: Oral Comprehension 4 - High Level
    Evaluation 4 - High Level
    Problem Solving 4 - High Level
    Management of Financial Resources 4 - High Level
    Critical Thinking 4 - High Level
    Decision Making 4 - High Level
    Systems Analysis 4 - High Level

Skills

Skills are capabilities that you develop over time. Different jobs require different skills. You will need them to do a good job in your roles, tasks, and duties.

Personal Attributes Help - Personal Attributes

  • Accountants
    Importance
    Attention to Detail 5 - Extremely important
    Independence 4 - Highly important
    Analytical Thinking 4 - Highly important
    Active Learning 3 - Important
    Service Orientation 3 - Important
    Social Orientation 3 - Important
    Stress Tolerance 3 - Important
    Collaboration 3 - Important
    Adaptability 3 - Important
    Innovativeness 2 - Somewhat important
  • Financial auditors
    Importance
    Analytical Thinking 5 - Extremely important
    Attention to Detail 5 - Extremely important
    Active Learning 4 - Highly important
    Stress Tolerance 4 - Highly important
    Independence 4 - Highly important
    Leadership 4 - Highly important
    Collaboration 4 - Highly important
    Adaptability 4 - Highly important
    Innovativeness 3 - Important
    Service Orientation 3 - Important

Personal Attributes

Personal attributes are the traits that you are born with. You can develop them through your social context and personal experiences. Different jobs require different personal attributes. Personal attributes are important at work because they influence how you are, and how you do things.

Interest Help - Interest

Realistic jobs

Realistic jobs are all about handling objects, tools, machines, or animals in a standard way. Many of these jobs don’t involve a lot of paperwork or teamwork.

Investigative jobs

Investigative jobs are all about studying things in an organized or creative way. These things can be physical, natural, or cultural. People in those jobs must think a lot, work with ideas, search for facts and solve problems.

Artistic jobs

Artistic jobs are all about expressing yourself in a creative way to make visual, performing, written, or applied art. They often involve working with forms, designs and patterns. Most of the time, people in those jobs don’t have to follow clear rules.

Social jobs

Social jobs are all about working with people. This often involves interacting with others to help, care, teach, or inform them.

Enterprising jobs

Enterprising jobs are all about taking action to achieve goals for a group or for yourself. This often involves starting and completing projects. People in those jobs often have to influence, lead and mobilize others. They sometimes also have to take risks and decisions or deal with business.

Conventional jobs

Conventional jobs are all about following procedures and routines. This may involve tasks like keeping records, filing paperwork and copying documents. It may also involve working with data to organize and process it in a planned way. People in those jobs often have to report to a clear chain of command. They tend to focus more on data and details than ideas.

Interest

Interests reflect your preferences for work environments and outcomes. Different jobs require different interests.

Knowledge Help - Knowledge

  • Accountants
    Knowledge level
    Economics 3 - Advanced Level
    Accounting 3 - Advanced Level
    Business Management 3 - Advanced Level
    Clerical 3 - Advanced Level
    Finance 3 - Advanced Level
    Mathematics 3 - Advanced Level
    Client Service 2 - Intermediate Level
    Languages 2 - Intermediate Level
    Law 2 - Intermediate Level
    Performance Measurement 1 - Basic Level
  • Financial auditors
    Knowledge level
    Economics 3 - Advanced Level
    Accounting 3 - Advanced Level
    Business Management 3 - Advanced Level
    Clerical 3 - Advanced Level
    Finance 3 - Advanced Level
    Mathematics 3 - Advanced Level
    Law 3 - Advanced Level
    Performance Measurement 2 - Intermediate Level
    Languages 2 - Intermediate Level
    Human Resources and Labour relations 1 - Basic Level

Knowledge

Knowledge refers to the understanding of different theories and practices. Different jobs require different knowledge. You need specific knowledge to do tasks and activities in a specific field.

Source Occupational and Skills Information System

Labour Market Information Survey
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