class: center, middle, inverse # Accounting ## by Dr. Martien Lubberink ## Associate Professor ### [martien.lubberink@vuw.ac.nz](mailto:martien.lubberink@vuw.ac.nz) ### 021 134 7500 --- # What we teach The tools and the language to understand (a) business: - Financial Accounting: - for external stakeholders to understand a firm: investors, financial analysts, policy makers.  - Management Accounting: - for decision making and for managerial control.  --- # What we teach The tools and the language to understand (a) business: - Accounting information systems: - how to organise information flows within a company.  - Auditing: - to help ensure the information communicated to stakeholders can be relied upon​.  --- # Career opportunities - Part I:  .center[Auditor at the Big 4] .center[Controller] .center[Budget analyst] .center[Public sector accountant] .center[Tax consultant] --- #Career opportunities - Part II:  - Clearly understand business and business transactions, often better than colleagues without accounting training. - Analyse big data and visualize results. - Translate complex financial concepts to teammates, boards of directors, policy makers, regulators. - Spoiler alert: these skills are **always** in high demand! --- #Career opportunities - Part II:  - Some examples of my own experiences: - advised the central bank of the Netherlands on the optimal size of bank executive boards and bank executive pay - advised banks, regulators, ministries regarding [the amount of capital banks need](https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/-/media/ReserveBank/Files/Publications/Policy-development/Banks/Review-capital-adequacy-framework-for-registered-banks/Capital-Review-Consultation-How-much-capital-is-enough.pdf) - published about banking and accounting in academic journals - and because of that, the financial press once in while quotes me: [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2016-02-10/bond-buybacks-and-bloody-fingerprints?sref=WkakQb9h), the [Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/content/c416a050-d3a2-11e4-a9d3-00144feab7de), [interest.co.nz](https://www.interest.co.nz/users/martien-lubberink). Impossible without understanding of accounting, though none of these roles are ["typical" accounting jobs](https://www.careers.govt.nz/jobs-database/finance-and-property/finance/accountant/). --- count: false #Career opportunities - Part II:  - Some examples of my own experiences: - advised the central bank of the Netherlands on the optimal size of bank executive boards and bank executive pay - advised banks, regulators, ministries regarding [the amount of capital banks need](https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/-/media/ReserveBank/Files/Publications/Policy-development/Banks/Review-capital-adequacy-framework-for-registered-banks/Capital-Review-Consultation-How-much-capital-is-enough.pdf) - published about banking and accounting in academic journals - and because of that, the financial press once in while quotes me: [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2016-02-10/bond-buybacks-and-bloody-fingerprints?sref=WkakQb9h), the [Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/content/c416a050-d3a2-11e4-a9d3-00144feab7de), [interest.co.nz](https://www.interest.co.nz/users/martien-lubberink). Impossible without understanding of accounting, though none of these roles are ["typical" accounting jobs](https://www.careers.govt.nz/jobs-database/finance-and-property/finance/accountant/). .center[**The sky is the limit!**]