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ATS resume keywords for Accounting and Taxation (CA, Accountant)

These are the 28 terms our scorer checks a Accounting and Taxation (CA, Accountant) resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

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The vocabulary

Coverage is 25 of the 100 points. Sixty percent of this list is full marks, so you do not need all of it, and stuffing every term in is penalised separately.

  • accounting
  • tally
  • gst
  • gst return
  • gstr
  • tds
  • income tax
  • itr
  • statutory audit
  • tax audit
  • ind as
  • book keeping
  • accounts payable
  • accounts receivable
  • bank reconciliation
  • finalisation of accounts
  • balance sheet
  • profit and loss
  • mis
  • form 26as
  • e-invoicing
  • roc filing
  • fixed asset register
  • vendor reconciliation
  • ledger scrutiny
  • provisioning
  • zoho books
  • quickbooks

The eight questions for Accounting and Taxation (CA, Accountant)

The guided builder asks these, in this order, and turns each answer into a line on the page. Nothing is written that you did not type.

  1. 1.How many entities, clients or books do you keep or close?
  2. 2.What is the turnover or ledger value you account for?
  3. 3.How many GST, TDS and income tax returns do you file in a year, and how many on time?
  4. 4.Which accounting software and tools do you work in daily?
  5. 5.How many audits, assessments or notices have you handled, and with what outcome?
  6. 6.How many days does your month end or year end close take, and has it shortened?
  7. 7.How many vendors, customers or bank accounts do you reconcile, and at what volume?
  8. 8.What leakage, penalty or cost have you identified and recovered or avoided?
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Words are the easy half

A resume can carry every term above and still be rejected, because coverage says what you know and nothing about what you delivered. The heaviest category on the rubric is evidence: how many of your bullets carry an actual figure.

Seven in ten is full marks. Most resumes we see manage two.

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