Accounting consultant (technical) - Salary and Career
Accounting Technicians

Accounting consultant (technical) - Career description, activities, functions and salary

They carry out activities related to accounting in companies, government agencies and other public and private institutions. To this end, they constitute and regularize a company, identify documents and information, attend to inspections and provide business consultancy. They perform general accounting, operationalize cost accounting and perform management accounting. They manage the personnel department and carry out asset control.

How much does an Accounting consultant (technical) earn

A Accounting consultant (technical) earns between $1.310 and $10.017 per month, with an average monthly salary of $3.564 and a median salary of $2.513 according to an Averwage.com salary survey along with to data of professionals hired and fired by companies in the labor market.

Our research is based on the salaries of 2.009 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).


Salary ranges for the Accounting consultant (technical)

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 3.564 42.773 891 17
1º Quartile 1.310 15.720 327 6
Median Salary 2.513 30.151 628 12
3º Quartile 7.640 91.676 1.910 36
Higher Salary 10.017 120.209 2.504 47


Professional job categories

  • Middle level technicians
    • medium level technicians in administrative sciences
      • technicians of administrative sciences
        • accounting technicians

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Main workplaces

Accounting Technicians they work in accounting offices, in the accounting departments of agricultural, commercial, industrial and service companies and in government bodies, as statutory, salaried employees or as self-employed (accounting consultant). The work is in person or at a distance, it can be carried out individually without supervision, or in a team, under supervision. Professionals work indoors during the day. The chief accountant and the accountant remain, for long periods, in uncomfortable positions and work under pressure, which can lead to constant stress.


What does it take to work in the field of Accounting Technicians

The exercise of these occupations requires a technical course in accounting (middle level). The full exercise of activities occurs after four years of experience.


Functions and activities of Accounting consultant (technical)

Accounting Technicians must:

  • perform management accounting;
  • constitute a company;
  • proceder business consultancy;
  • demonstrate personal competencies;
  • operationalize cost accounting;
  • regularizar empresa;
  • proceder business consulting;
  • manage the personnel department;
  • follow inspection;
  • perform asset control;
  • perform general accounting;
  • establishing a company;
  • regularize the company;
  • demonstrate personal skills;
  • communicate;
  • perform general ledger;
  • run general accounting;
  • execute general accounting;
  • demonstrate personal competence;
  • perform equity control;
  • regularize company;
  • proceder empresarial;
  • proceder empresarial consultancy;
  • identify documents and information;
  • complete inspection;

  • Activities

    • classify tax documents;
    • reply to customer inquiry;
    • issue internal memos;
    • prepare cash flow;
    • work as a team;
    • advise the development of accounting software ;
    • extinguish companies;
    • implement a job and salary plan;
    • make trial balances;
    • finish installment orders;
    • analyze behavior of accounts;
    • exhibit objectivity;
    • perform an employment contract;
    • compile accounting information;
    • examine tax documents and legislation;
    • demonstrate flexibility;
    • perform tax planning;
    • request documentation for admission;
    • study changes in labor legislation;
    • supervise the work;
    • provide administrative defense;
    • keep up to date;
    • issue journal, ledger and fiscal books;
    • change the articles of incorporation;
    • interpret legislation;
    • demonstrate organization;
    • register the company with the competent public bodies;
    • inventory assets;
    • account budgeted or incurred cost;
    • take inventory;
    • forward the documents to the competent sectors;
    • prepare the social balance;
    • send newsletters;
    • prepare all books relevant to the company for authentication;
    • demonstrate discipline;
    • show cost incurred and/or budgeted;
    • revaluate assets;
    • provide clarification;
    • provide subsidies to company administrators;
    • code accounting documents;
    • check the terms of collective bargaining;
    • accounting taxes;
    • depreciate assets;
    • apply the legislation relating to the purpose of the company;
    • contact the competent bodies;
    • fit the company into the activity;
    • proceed with equity accounting;
    • create cost report;
    • write the actual profit calculation book (lalur);
    • inventory labor documentation and legislation;
    • demonstrate dynamism;
    • restructure chart of accounts;
    • compute the payroll of employees, employers and third parties;
    • distinguish acts from administrative facts;
    • deliver courses and lectures;
    • visit the customer regularly;
    • delegate competence;
    • generate social charges slips;
    • recalculate taxes;
    • prepare reports;
    • analyze balance sheet accounts;
    • correct assets;
    • calculate interest on equity in formation;
    • analyze account behavior;
    • perform comparative analyses;
    • elaborate an article of incorporation;
    • fulfill ancillary tax obligations;
    • form accounting parts of companies;
    • send documents to be archived;
    • providing consultancy in the incorporation of the company;
    • advise audit;
    • lead work teams;
    • prepare termination and approval;
    • analyze corporate documentation;
    • solve administrative problems;
    • determine the result of the sale;
    • relate operating and non-operating costs;
    • identify managerial and administrative cost;
    • reorganize accounting;
    • demonstrate professional attitude;
    • use means and vehicles of communication;
    • monitor the occupational health medical control program;
    • eliminate documents from the archive after legal deadline;
    • study the accounting documentation;
    • diagnose the company's problems;
    • develop chart of accounts;
    • mastering computer skills;
    • update accounting;
    • redo ancillary tax obligations;
    • monitor the company's final results;
    • make budget forecast;
    • control the entry of fixed assets;
    • master numerical quantities;
    • use work tools correctly;
    • reason logically;
    • make opening balance;
    • distribute tasks;
    • perform general ledger entries;
    • demonstrate creativity;
    • make documents and books available;
    • manage the employee's social benefits;
    • demonstrate security;
    • transparent objectivity;
    • look good;
    • write off fixed assets;
    • reconcile accounts;
    • amortize the expenses and costs incurred;
    • define cost center;
    • control vacation;
    • forward the articles of incorporation to the file at the commercial registry and/or registry office;


    Sectors that hire Accounting consultant (technical) the most in the job market

    • accounting activities
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    • billing activities and registration information
    • development and licensing of non-customizable computer programs
    • other service activities provided mainly to companies
    • information technology consulting




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