Reflect on the Alignment Between your Skills and Attributes

Questions: 1.Describe the work environment as presented by the industry partner? 2.Describe the role of an accountant as presented by the industry partner? 3.Describe the role that a new graduate employed by the industry partner would be expected to play in the organisation? 4.Explain the skills and attributes required to work for the industry partner, in relation to your responses to the previous 3 points? 5.Critique the extent to which your skills and attributes align with the skills and attributes required to work for the industry partner drawing on your personal experience? Answers: Introduction The area of self-reflection deals with understanding and relation to personal factors and knowledge levels for being a successful tax accountant. The scope of the current self-reflection deals with the scope of being employed as an accountant in Kamlee Coorey, who is a partner with Deloitte. 1. Work Environment The work environment within Kamlee Coorey that can be understood from the perspective of its standards it maintains in the industry(www.executivewomenaustralia.com.au, Retrieved on 25th March 2017). Being a large firm within the industry, the work environment is bound to be challenging and stressful. There will be focus on high quality job delivery and professionalism guided by a proper organizational culture within their functional domain. The Company might provide a lot of training opportunity for its employees and various other activities. 2. Role of an Accountant The role of an accountant within the tax industry can be multifarious in nature. An accountant can range from varying alternative depending upon the Company and client needs. An accountant has to deliver and manage expectations of clients by complying with certain standards(Evans, 2011). They need to be able to meet deadlines and duties that they are assigned. They need to function within a team and strive towards the goals defined by the client. Accountants in taxing professions need to possess high knowledge pertaining to complaint taxation practices as well as acceptable accounting standards. They will need to file tax cases and cater to various tax issues in case it comes for investigation purposes. 3. Role of a newly employed graduate There are a wide variety of roles that an newly employed graduate needs to perform at the Company. Firstly they will need to develop their skills and knowledge with the methods and ways to file tax returns and ways to manage accounts of clients(De Villiers, 2010). Kamlee is very stringent of its expectations from new employed and they demand that they deliver their very best to make an impression regarding their personal brand. A newly employed employee has to be well prepared and deliver the requisites such that critical relationship can be developed from the first instance within internal framework and client opportunities. Kamlee focuses on deadlines such that teams are able to deliver roles and responsibility. Quality of work is extremely pertinent within the Company and newly employed has to provide high quality of work within specified deadlines. 4. Skills and Attributes While an accountant profession has knowledge and skills to some extent to deliver and manage expectations, they need to develop capabilities pertaining to working within teams. There needs to be focus on development of relationship such that successful client and internal functionalities can be managed. Further I need to develop technical skills in accordance to the way that is required at the Company(Subramaniam, 2007). All learnt skills has to be transferred and developed to cater to an improvised way and method to work within the Company. 5. Alignment of skills In order to cater to one of the big four firms, my personal knowledge and skills needs to be at par. I can obtain such knowledge and skill levels by becoming an intern or cadet within the business practice. I will evaluate my skills against the industry standards, in case I fail to meet the same I plan to undertake self-help books and training for further transfer of learning. References De Villiers, R., 2010. The incorporation of soft skills into accounting curricula: preparing accounting graduates for their unpredictable futures.Meditari Accountancy Research,18(2), pp.1-22. Evans, E. and Cable, D., 2011. Evidence of improvement in accounting students' communication skills.International Journal of Educational Management,25(4), pp.311-327. Subramaniam, N. and Freudenberg, B., 2007. Preparing accounting students for success in the professional environment: Enhancing self-efficacy through a work integrated learning programme. www.executivewomenaustralia.com.au, Retrieved on 25th March 2017. Kamlee Coorey, Australia. https://www.executivewomenaustralia.com.au/professional-profiles/kamlee-coorey.