Realm Accounting Industry

Business and finance on the Blessed Isle are highly complex. The Thousand Scales, the Great Houses, and the Banking Institutions of the Isle all require large numbers of trained clerks to keep their accounts in order and make sure things run smoothly across the vast land at Creation's center. Even the peasantry has need of accountants, for individual peasants are banned from keeping financial records themselves, relying on the local kaja (an accountant with the Thousand Scales) to do any such paperwork for them.

Certification & Training

Many accountants are trained as apprentices to elder accountaints or at small counting schools found in most of the Isle's largest cities. The Shining Garden of Calculating and Counting is considered by far the finest school of accounting on the Blessed Isle, providing a six-year training program. While considered the best school for bureaucrats, in accounting even the Spiral Academy takes second place to the Shining Garden.

Accounting Ranks and Positions

Accountant: One who manages accounts. No official certification required.

Gongfang: One who assesses insurance risks. No official certification required.

Accounts Clerk: Holder of a diploma from a recognized school of accounting.

Counter: Certified by passing the Counters Examination in the Imperial City, taken after getting a diploma and three years experience. Eligible to be appointed kaja.

Kaja: A Counter appointed to a post as a prefectural counting official, who travels the Isle doing prefectural government and peasant accounts.

Sniffer: Certified by placement in the highest percentile on the Counter’s Examination, and appointment to the Jade Sniffers ministry of the Thousand Scales.

Assessor: Member of the tax collection ministry in the Thousand Scales, certified by having passed the Counters Examination, serving eight years as a kaja, and then passing a second exam.

Imperial Counter: Certified by passing the Imperial Counting Examination, after becoming an Assessor followed by eight years of experience. This certification opens the highest ranks in the Thousand Scales, including the Ministerial posts themselves.