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Your Career
Career Path. The road best traveled.
Are you interested in a career in Assurance and Accounting or Taxation? Then check out the micro-guides below to help determine what area you may be best suited for. If those are not for you then take a look at some of the other services BDO offers at www.bdo.ca/services.
Assurance and Accounting and You
- Assurance - BDO's Assurance and Accounting is a major component of our service lines, accounting for over 54% of our business. As an assurance and accounting specialist, you will be moving fast, providing essential, high-quality audits to your clients. Clients depend on this service to help propel their business forward in today's market, and depend on us to provide the service to help them accomplish their goals.
- As part of the BDO Dunwoody Assurance and Accounting team, your responsibilities will include:
- Compilation of Financial Statements
- In order to help clients make smart business decisions, you will help make sense of their numbers through the compilation of financial statements. From research to presentation, BDO quality is prevalent throughout. Our bookkeeping services help clients organize and understand their numbers.
- Other Services
- Special Reports - As an A&A specialist you may be asked to prepare an audited statement of sales or a year-in-review report for a client. A BDO special report promises clients the same degree of quality as our audits.
- Management Letter - You may find yourself preparing a periodic management letter that pinpoints possible risks and future opportunities for your clients and keeps them up to date on their business growth.
- Other Types of Audits - When clients are questioning their technology, they look to us to provide information technology guidance to help them propel their business. Working with the BDO Solutions team, you'll find yourself looking at a client's system processes in order to compare it with industry standards and make suggestions in areas of risk and needed improvement.
- Publications - Being part of the A&A team puts you on the path to becoming an industry leader in the field. Our A&A department produces many publications per year, highlighting the latest industry trends and news. As part of the team you can write or research for these publications. There are many opportunities for you to break into the media and share your accounting knowledge, as many of our staff are featured experts on television, in magazines and newspapers.
Taxation
- Life in the Tax department is a blast. Its fast-paced environment requires you to stay sharp, use the skills you have learned, and incorporate new knowledge every day. You've worked hard in school and on the job to show that you're one of the best. Tax is where you prove it. As a BDO financial advisor you will be able to provide people and businesses with the support and advice they require to execute their personal strategy for future success.
- Corporate Tax Strategies - The idea with corporate tax services is that you help your clients plan for the future and avoid liability with smart tax strategies. As a professional you will be skilled in all areas and work on how best to meet customer needs.
- As part of the Tax department with BDO your duties may include:
- Corporate Income Tax - Everybody wants to minimize their taxes. So everyone will look to you to provide effective strategies and advice to help make it happen.
- Commodity Tax - GST/HST and provincial sales taxes are your bread and butter. Here, you'll be able to understand how they will effect a client's business and develop strategies to help them navigate the murky waters of commodity tax.
- International Tax - Our clients aren't just dealing in Canada with Canadians. You will know and understand the ins and outs of international tax laws (with the help of the international BDO network) and be able to help clients whose taxation needs extend globally.
- Transfer Pricing - You will work with our clients to help them maximize potential for an increase in after-tax income. They will be happy. How happy? That depends on the increase in after-tax income.
- R&D Tax Credits - Research and Development is where it's at. It helps grow businesses, and can help provide a tax credit from the government. You'll examine the workings of the client's business and determine if they are eligible for the R&D tax credit.
- Personal Financial Planning - As a tax advisor you will specialize in both corporate and personal tax. Sometimes, personal and corporate taxes overlap, and you have to be able to provide effective strategies to minimize tax burden. BDO offers the following personal taxation services:
- Tax Deferred Savings - As a professional at BDO you will be able to help clients plan for the future through the use of tax breaks such as RRSP's and RESP's.
- Financial Planning - As a BDO financial advisor you will be able to provide people with support and advice they need to execute their personal strategy for future success.
- Canadian Tax Advisor - As part of the firm's Canadian tax practice you will specialize in both personal and corporate tax.
- International Tax Advisor - As part of our international tax team, you will work with BDO colleagues around the globe assist businesses who operate internationally, minimize their global obligations.
- Publications - BDO's tax department is nationally known for its tax expertise, appearing in newspapers across the country and major television programs discussing the latest taxation issues effecting Canadians and Canadian businesses. If you are interested in the media, our tax department offers the opportunities to get out there and talk tough on tax. Some of the publications we're currently working on include:
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