Living in the captivity of stereotypes, with the word “accountant” we imagine a harsh woman with a bunch of papers, and Hit 80’s about “favorite accountant” is either a surprise, or a slight misunderstanding. On the eve of the Accountant’s Day we present a stereotypes destroyer – retired colonel, accountant Oleg Romanovskyi

“Actually, I am a military accountant. When I graduated from school, I got a choice: where to study further. I decided to go to the military sphere. I did not know where to serve better: in the accounting department or the tanker, or else somewhere. And then there was a proposal to enter the financial military academy, and I tried. And it came from the first time. At first it was so cool: military discipline was studied, and only then received a profession. I liked that, I was twenty-seven years old and served. Initially in the military system, then in the criminal, he served to the colonel, and then resigned and worked already in civilian posts”
“I was born with Ovruch. He arrived in Zhytomyr fifteen years ago and loved the city. I like the center and Korbutovka’s bridge. Well, the city center itself, but from Korbutovka … Nature, the river, the head of Chatskyi – such a cool place! I was alone in the house, parents were let go everywhere, so nature for me is my own, my own”
“Accountant is a quiet job?! No! (Smiles) It’s only if you sit at the table and do nothing else. But there are a lot of factors that affect the work. With one tax now work – it’s already a piece of work. Not so calm, the work of an accountant. It’s only apparently everything seems simple: a person sits, some papers are translated. But in practice it is very important and difficult”
“The most important feature that should have an accountant is perfectionism. Well, of course, honesty as well as people and the employer. But still you need to be sedentary, pedantic, carefully to count, record. These are all serious things. Still, we must constantly monitor changes in the legislation, rush for it. And if you did not have time … The minimum is material problems, sanctions are different, fines. This is all a matter of responsibility! ”
“Life is changing, and professions in people are changing. We are all a little accountants. But a professional accountant is a certain skill. If I had to take an accountant for work, I would take away loyal people, and among other skills would distinguish just decency, devotion to work, to my employer. Even if a young person does not know something, but has a desire, it will do nothing, learn, and everything will be fine. But if there is no desire, then there will not be any sense of it, you will not learn anything. The same with a bootleg: no desire – no sense. You can click with a hammer as much as you like, but at the output zero, good will not work! And this applies to any profession! ”
“Certainly, with love for their cause are born. If you do not like the job, then whoever tells you not … You have to change! And do not need to endure, get used to or be afraid. Sometimes I got a job from me, but I liked it. And eventually I understood what is mine, my native, and everything else is just fatigue»
“Am I ambitious? I do not know (smiles) If the colonel has served, then probably I had some ambitions. And the fact that I’m not working as a top manager in a corporation, maybe they did not have such large and big, those ambitions. (Smiling) Who ..?
“An accountant is not alone, a good accountant always works in a team. First of all, the supervisor needs to have contact, and the manager must understand the problem. Here is the specificity of the army: “Luminas are Luminas, and cast iron is cast iron”. If the commander does not understand the problems of accounting, then he himself may have problems. And in a team with people you need to get in contact, you cannot walk with a hooked nose. And with a staff member there should be a joint work. You see how important the team is! ”
“I worked with women and with men. In the army – only with men, and in the criminal-executive system and in other institutions – worked more with women. For me, as a manager, it was much easier to work with them: women are usually very good performers. Men are not so diligent, with it there are sometimes a lot of problems. And if a woman has a work area, then she usually works perfectly”
“Education is an important thing. We now have a crisis in education, in medicine, because many diplomas are “bought”, exams, sessions are not for knowledge, but for money, and for today people are managing, treating, teaching, but they are not always specialists in their field. What is the crisis! ”
“Celebration of the Accountant’s Day? That is an interesting question. When there was a classic accounting, they were going to a team and now somehow falls this holiday. Well, I can bring home a cake, sit with my wife. Celebrate, only deep in the soul! (Laughs) »
“For me, my profession is also interesting because many outstanding people who were accountants found themselves in a completely different way. For example, in the first film adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, he was not a professional actor but an accountant. Is Henry Schliemann, a famous archaeologist who found Troy. He was a professional accountant and amateur archaeologist. Wonder, right? It strikes me that people have such a life such a way of life. From you and accountants! ”
“I like reading. I like the works of Kurkov, and now I began to read Valerii Pekar’s “Spiral Dynamics”, interestingly. And in my life I read a lot, actually, I love books. My parents had a huge library. They all gathered her life. Some of the books they lost and I took some of them. Books at home in our home were respected, although parents were ordinary people: the mother was a doctor, and the father was an engineer »
“Somehow I’m learning that I’m learning my whole life. The school finished normal, then the military school, where it is not enough to get a little red for a diploma. Then he graduated from the military academy at the Kyiv National University. T.G. Shevchenko, well, here is already a red diploma. Incidentally, Kuchma handed him to me in the Mariinsky Palace. It’s cool! And honored Then he studied at the National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine. So I learned a little bit ”
“Zhytomyr became my home city for me, and I am very proud of it today!”
Translated by Aliona Matushevich