-: Hello, my name is Matin.
I'm an accountant.
At CohnReznick we do auditing, advisory, and tax.
So it's the public accounting side.
I'm in the auditing field.
So I'll audit mostly private clients,
some public clients, in all ranges of industries.
We provide kind of like a one-stop shop
for all accounting services that a company might need.
So we're going in, making sure that the clients
are fairly and accurately reporting
their financial statements.
If there's any errors we'll catch it
and we'll communicate it to the client,
make sure before they release it to the external users,
the investors, whoever they're gonna
give their financial statements to,
we put our seal on it so that people know
that it's been thoroughly looked at,
it's legit, it's accurate.
So we'll go in, we'll go into the clients,
we'll see all their work, all their statements.
We'll go through everything.
So the entire financial statements are the balance sheet,
income statement, statement of equity, cash flows,
and we'll go basically line by line
to make sure that it's accurate.
And we'll take one thing, start with the balance sheet,
assets, and we'll see,
depending on the industry and the client,
there's of course things that are gonna be more material
than others.
So we'll go through one by one and just see
how can we make sure that this is accurate?
What do we need to look at?
What do we need to test?
And from there we'll communicate with the client,
we'll visit the client,
we'll get whatever documentation that we need,
tap into whatever records or systems that they have
that we need to look at,
and from there we'll do our own analysis,
making sure that it's independent,
and then come up with our assertion
of how fair the financial statements are.
Usually a few different things at once.
It seems like I'm usually working with
three or four clients at a time.
There's busy season, which is past,
which ended in April when all the clients
are busting out their financial statements.
And when I was in busy season I was really focusing on
one client at a time.
And that's when you would spend
pretty much all week at the client
just grinding and working it out.
But when it's not busy season,
three or four clients at a time.