I have an Associate's Degree and a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting.

[LuckyCharms]

I've had several jobs in the financial world in my previous life.

I was once an Internal Auditor.

Basically, that is when you audit the accounts and processes of the company that you work for.

I didn't have a very good outcome on that job.

I got fired.

My manager said that I was too slow.

It took me 5 years to audit the company's $50 petty cash account.

[dweller]

1. so ... you looking into fatnixon's taxes ?

will get back to you ...

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[FakeNoose]

2. Leave it to Newman

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. I do hope you're making some sort of silly joke here.

In a related story, when I first went to work as a paralegal, I was asked to go over the accounts of a small law firm because a partner was convinced he was being cheated out of money. It was the kind of thing done by hand by a bookkeeper. Many years earlier I was briefly enrolled in a secretarial college, and spent a few weeks learning some bookkeeping, so I had the absolutely rock-bottom skills to do this.

What was so fascinating about what I did as a paralegal was seeing how breathtakingly honest the bookkeeper for that small law firm was. When an apparent relative was hired to do some landscaping, she actually wrote "Paid under protest" next to the listing for the check cut to the landscaper.

Oh, and it was clear the small law firm was really operating on a shoe-string budget, and the partner wasn't being cheated out of anything. The founding partner often did not take his own salary.

I think being a forensic accountant could be fascinating.