Payroll and Accounting Types of Accountancy Careers - Mar. 2014 | Page 3

The accounting methods used conventionally are also used in government accounting. You will make
use of the method called double-entry systems and you will be using journals as well as ledgers.
If you’re a government accountant, you will be focusing more in rendering service. Government units
are not very particular with profits because they are put up to serve the public.
Fiduciary accounting is another type of accountancy careers. Here, accounting relies on trust. Executors,
administrators, trustees, or any other person who is trustworthy can do fiduciary accounting. A fiduciary
accountant keeps important records and he also prepares certain reports. The courts can authorize
these fiduciary accountants to carry out their tasks.