Life of a CPA Highly qualified professionals in the accounting industry—Certified Public Accountant. As an accounting student, and a California State Accountant, I aspire to become a CPA someday, but I’m always intimidated on the tremendous credentials and the committed educations, experiences, and the knowledge to become one. On May 2, 2018, 3:00 p.m., this was my entry to know the perspective of becoming a CPA by interviewing a California Certified Public Accountant and owner of Purewal and Ching LLP, Flaminius H. Ching, California Board of Accountancy license # 113172 located at the heart of business and commerce land of Laguna Elk grove near the Elk grove City Hall. As I entered the office, I noticed the tranquility, professional, and …show more content…
Along the line, he mentioned that over the past few years the firm pickup small businesses which they offer to manage their payroll, sales taxes, so what he and his business partner realized is that although managing small business has bigger market they are looking into servicing financial audit to bigger business such as corporate. I asked Flaminius his auditing experience and he said when he was working with Moss Adams, he was also able to manage auditing on a variety of different industries such as health care, manufacturing, distributions, non-profit and governmental audit and also exposed into the big scope of operations such as inventory count. At that time, he was fresh out of college and it was very intimidating, but excited to be part and experience such a big room of opportunities and knowledge. I mentioned that audit experience is no longer a requirement to become a CPA in California; and his honest opinion was that his business partner does not have an audit experience when he took his CPA exam, therefore; it is okay because some accountant wanted to get their CPA certificate for different purpose. And, some accountants do not necessarily want to pursue auditing, despite the fact that auditing experience is a great skill to have. In association to the topic, I questioned Flaminius about how the changes in laws, auditing and accounting standards affected CPA. He said it takes a lot of hours dedicated to staying on top of the changes—sort of every changing field of studying, despite the fact; some changes are very minimal. Often, become a hindrance from his busy working hours, especially whenever it comes out on a wrong period of time. It is difficult to fit in the training on top of the CP hours that he need to meet. However, he said that without these requirements, he could not imagine practicing public accounting not knowing all of the