Jobs / Finance and accounting / 13-2011.00
Accountants and Auditors
Examine, analyze, and interpret accounting records to prepare financial statements, give advice, or audit and evaluate statements prepared by others. Install or advise on systems of recording costs or other financial and budgetary data.
- US jobs
- 1,449,500
- Median wage
- $83,680 a year
- Job family
- Finance and accounting
Can agents do the work of accountants and auditors?
We read the evidence for the whole job family, Finance and accounting: Some tasks (no change in 12 months)
Agents complete 20% or more of the tasks (or projects) on a direct benchmark.
Evidence: SpreadsheetBench 2, 54.5% of tasks completed.
Direct evidence that disagrees: APEX-Accounting, 14.8% of tasks fully completed (Pass@1).
64% of this occupation's work, by O*NET work activities, is measured by a direct benchmark.
- 25%Examine financial activities, operations, or systemsMeasured
- 13%Prepare financial documents, reports, or budgetsMeasured
- 11%Evaluate the quality or accuracy of dataMeasured
- 9%Analyze business or financial dataMeasured
- 4%Communicate with others about operational plans or activitiesNot measured
- 4%Advise others on business or operational mattersNot measured
- 4%Communicate with others about business strategiesNot measured
- 3%Investigate criminal or legal mattersNot measured
Benchmarks for this occupation
These benchmarks name this occupation in their job mapping.
Direct evidence
Work benchmarks mapped primary to this family. They set the step when they report how many tasks agents complete.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in finance and accounting, not always this occupation's tasks.
Direct evidence
Work benchmarks mapped primary to this family. They set the step when they report how many tasks agents complete.
- 54.5%arito · 13 Sep 2026Emerging
Also relevant
These benchmarks cover part of this family's work, or have no result yet. They do not set its step.
Context only
These benchmarks span many occupations, or they test how agents behave. They give context but do not set the step.
Retired
Their maintainers or a major evaluator stopped using them as a frontier measure. They do not count.
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Prepare, examine, or analyze accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
- Process invoices for payment.
- Review accounts for discrepancies and reconcile differences.
- Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting, or other tax requirements.
- Prepare adjusting journal entries.
- Inspect account books and accounting systems for efficiency, effectiveness, and use of accepted accounting procedures to record transactions.
- Prepare detailed reports on audit findings.
- Prepare, analyze, or verify annual reports, financial statements, and other records, using accepted accounting and statistical procedures to assess financial condition and facilitate financial planning.
- Collect and analyze data to detect deficient controls, duplicated effort, extravagance, fraud, or non-compliance with laws, regulations, and management policies.
- Review data about material assets, net worth, liabilities, capital stock, surplus, income, or expenditures.
- Report to management regarding the finances of establishment.
- Evaluate taxpayer finances to determine tax liability, using knowledge of interest and discount rates, annuities, valuation of stocks and bonds, and amortization valuation of depletable assets.
Other job titles for this occupation (53)
Accountant · Accounting Officer · Audit Partner · Auditor · Cost Accountant · CPA (Certified Public Accountant) · Financial Auditor · Financial Reporting Accountant · General Accountant · Internal Auditor · Account Auditor · Accounting Auditor · Accounting Consultant · Accounting Methods Analyst · Accounting Systems Analyst · Auditor in Charge · Bank Accountant · Budget Accountant · Bursar · City Auditor · Compliance Analyst · Compliance Auditor · Corporate Accountant · County Auditor · Data Processing Auditor · Field Auditor · Financial Accountant · Forensic Accountant · Fund Accountant · General Ledger Accountant · Industrial Accountant · Information Systems Auditor · Insurance Auditor · Inventory Accountant · Inventory Auditor · Medical Accountant · Medical Auditor · Mutual Fund Accountant · Payroll Auditor · Project Accountant · Property Accountant · Public Accountant · QC Auditor (Quality Control Auditor) · Railroad Accountant · Railroad Auditor · Revenue Accountant · Staff Accountant · Staff Auditor · Tax Accountant · Tax Auditor · Traveling Accountant · Traveling Auditor · Traveling Repair Accountant