Louis
Accountant

It takes a certain kind of expertise to do what we do.

You know, you've got to know about budgetary accounting, proprietary accounting. 
You've got to be familiar with the reporting requirements, from Treasury, from 
the Office of Management and Budget, from the Government Accountability Office, okay?

You have the opportunity to work with great people, some smart, hardworking people,
at the IRS. And there's definitely the opportunity for promotion.

We have over 250 prepared-by-client deliverables to the Government Accountability 
Office, okay? So you have to coordinate with other offices to make sure that the 
various deliverables, reporting deliverables, are submitted to the auditors on time, okay?

Then, when the auditors do their testing and they have audit inquiries, you have 
to coordinate with various offices. There's a lot of, a lot of teamwork.

We work with Procurement, with the Corporate Performance and Budgeting Office, with 
the business units. And there's a lot of teamwork going on. When the IRS suggested
that I apply for the position with the IRS, I was very excited, because I thought 
I would get my life back.

Even though, as an accountant, I'm still very busy at the IRS, but at least I am 
able to either work on an alternative work schedule --  I could take every Friday 
off if I wanted, or every other Monday -- and I can earn credit hours, compensatory 
time off, and enjoy my life more.