Patreon

Accountant Career

Turn your Sim into a numbers person, with an office job, a home business, or both.

Download options

On Patreon · game patch 1.129.39.1030

What’s new in version 1.0

Changes since the last public file (the 2024 beta, `maplebell_AccountantCareer.package`).

Pictures (3)
  • Select a Career now shows the career's own picture instead of the llama.
  • Both Manage Client Tasks lists, Digital Clients and In-Person Clients, now have a picture on every row. In the in-person list, Set Up College Fund shows a mortarboard, Offer Investment Advice a silver Simoleon coin and Plan for Retirement a gold Simoleon.
  • Every row picture on both Manage Client Tasks lists and the Money Mastery skill-bar picture (now a laptop) are base-game pictures. No pack is needed for them.
Pay and cycles (7)
  • Digital clients now pay every 3 days instead of every 6, the same as in-person clients.
  • In-person work is now paid from the in-person pay table. It used to be paid from the digital one.
  • The in-person paycheck message now shows the amount.
  • A cycle with no work done now pays like a low score. It used to be able to pay any band.
  • Your Sim is only promoted after a cycle with more than 60 work. Random level jumps are gone, and the top level is never "promoted".
  • The Level 3 to 4 promotion now shows as a note like the other promotions.
  • If a cycle stops after a save is loaded, a new cycle starts by itself the next time your Sim appears. Manage Client Tasks comes back without Take a Break and Resume Job.
Quit, Take a Break and Resume Job (8)
  • Quit now takes effect at once. It ends both the digital and the in-person clients.
  • Quitting mid-cycle pays nothing for that cycle, and a note now says so: "You quit mid-cycle. No pay for the unfinished cycle."
  • Quitting and offering services again no longer pays a loop.
  • Quit now shows while your Sim is on a break or has only in-person clients. Quitting on a break no longer blocks the career afterwards.
  • Take a Break no longer pays at once and can no longer be repeated for money. The running cycle pays once at its end, then nothing until Resume Job.
  • Take a Break now gives the "Taking a Break" moodlet. Resume Job and Quit remove it.
  • A client signed while your Sim is on a break no longer starts a paid cycle. The cycle starts after Resume Job.
  • Resume Job now brings back in-person clients if your Sim is Level 2 or higher and still has at least one client.
Computer work (8)
  • Trade Stocks and Prepare Tax Documents can each be done once a day. When used, the row greys out with "Already done today. Available again tomorrow."
  • Prepare Tax Documents can no longer lose §5,000 to §10,000.
  • Break-even trades and tax filings now show a plain note instead of nothing.
  • Prepare Tax Documents is no longer done by free will.
  • Update Financial Records now counts toward your digital client work.
  • The Manage Investments task now says "Review Investment Portfolios or Trade Stocks". Either one completes it.
  • The career's daily tasks now count the right computer actions.
  • Financial Health Check now gives a grade before the first task. It uses the same grade levels as the paycheck.
Clients and chats (8)
  • Debt Reduction Plan (the chat) now counts toward in-person client work.
  • Budget Consultation's bad choice now loses points.
  • Review Financial Statements goes badly about one time in five, with a worried reply and no points.
  • The Financial Audit texts now fit how well the work went.
  • Review Financial Statements, Budget Consultation and Debt Reduction Plan only show while your Sim is a working Personal Accountant who is not on a break.
  • The client chats, and Discuss Market Trends, Discuss Money-Saving Tips and Offer Financial Advice, no longer show on children.
  • Quit Personal Accountant Career, Take a Break, Resume Job, Offer Financial Management Services (Digital Clients) and Trade Stocks are no longer done by free will.
  • "Leave the seminar early" now has its Yes and No buttons. They were blank.
Text (7)
  • Paycheck and Financial Health Check lines now say "this cycle" instead of "this week".
  • The in-person row "Financial Health Checkup" is now "Assess Overall Finances", so it no longer looks like the digital Financial Health Check.
  • The offer note says "you've booked new digital clients!" instead of "your first".
  • The CPA exam texts now name the Accountant career and say you can retry tomorrow.
  • "Study Investments Strategies" now reads "Study Investment Strategies".
  • Offer Investment Advice no longer shows the reply about losing it all on a bad stock pick.
  • Players using another game language now see English text instead of blank entries.

Good to know

  • In-person clients start at Level 2.
  • Quitting while a cycle is running pays nothing for that cycle. The game shows a note when that happens.

For translators

Game text: 2 new, 35 changed, 0 removed. Other languages are now filled with English text, ready to translate. Translations for this mod

Changes since the last public file (the 2024 beta, `maplebell_AccountantCareer.package`).See what changed →

What’s new in version 1.0

Changes since the last public file (the 2024 beta, `maplebell_AccountantCareer.package`).

Pictures

  • Select a Career now shows the career's own picture instead of the llama.
  • Both Manage Client Tasks lists, Digital Clients and In-Person Clients, now have a picture on every row. In the in-person list, Set Up College Fund shows a mortarboard, Offer Investment Advice a silver Simoleon coin and Plan for Retirement a gold Simoleon.
  • Every row picture on both Manage Client Tasks lists and the Money Mastery skill-bar picture (now a laptop) are base-game pictures. No pack is needed for them.

Pay and cycles

  • Digital clients now pay every 3 days instead of every 6, the same as in-person clients.
  • In-person work is now paid from the in-person pay table. It used to be paid from the digital one.
  • The in-person paycheck message now shows the amount.
  • A cycle with no work done now pays like a low score. It used to be able to pay any band.
  • Your Sim is only promoted after a cycle with more than 60 work. Random level jumps are gone, and the top level is never "promoted".
  • The Level 3 to 4 promotion now shows as a note like the other promotions.
  • If a cycle stops after a save is loaded, a new cycle starts by itself the next time your Sim appears. Manage Client Tasks comes back without Take a Break and Resume Job.

Quit, Take a Break and Resume Job

  • Quit now takes effect at once. It ends both the digital and the in-person clients.
  • Quitting mid-cycle pays nothing for that cycle, and a note now says so: "You quit mid-cycle. No pay for the unfinished cycle."
  • Quitting and offering services again no longer pays a loop.
  • Quit now shows while your Sim is on a break or has only in-person clients. Quitting on a break no longer blocks the career afterwards.
  • Take a Break no longer pays at once and can no longer be repeated for money. The running cycle pays once at its end, then nothing until Resume Job.
  • Take a Break now gives the "Taking a Break" moodlet. Resume Job and Quit remove it.
  • A client signed while your Sim is on a break no longer starts a paid cycle. The cycle starts after Resume Job.
  • Resume Job now brings back in-person clients if your Sim is Level 2 or higher and still has at least one client.

Computer work

  • Trade Stocks and Prepare Tax Documents can each be done once a day. When used, the row greys out with "Already done today. Available again tomorrow."
  • Prepare Tax Documents can no longer lose §5,000 to §10,000.
  • Break-even trades and tax filings now show a plain note instead of nothing.
  • Prepare Tax Documents is no longer done by free will.
  • Update Financial Records now counts toward your digital client work.
  • The Manage Investments task now says "Review Investment Portfolios or Trade Stocks". Either one completes it.
  • The career's daily tasks now count the right computer actions.
  • Financial Health Check now gives a grade before the first task. It uses the same grade levels as the paycheck.

Clients and chats

  • Debt Reduction Plan (the chat) now counts toward in-person client work.
  • Budget Consultation's bad choice now loses points.
  • Review Financial Statements goes badly about one time in five, with a worried reply and no points.
  • The Financial Audit texts now fit how well the work went.
  • Review Financial Statements, Budget Consultation and Debt Reduction Plan only show while your Sim is a working Personal Accountant who is not on a break.
  • The client chats, and Discuss Market Trends, Discuss Money-Saving Tips and Offer Financial Advice, no longer show on children.
  • Quit Personal Accountant Career, Take a Break, Resume Job, Offer Financial Management Services (Digital Clients) and Trade Stocks are no longer done by free will.
  • "Leave the seminar early" now has its Yes and No buttons. They were blank.

Text

  • Paycheck and Financial Health Check lines now say "this cycle" instead of "this week".
  • The in-person row "Financial Health Checkup" is now "Assess Overall Finances", so it no longer looks like the digital Financial Health Check.
  • The offer note says "you've booked new digital clients!" instead of "your first".
  • The CPA exam texts now name the Accountant career and say you can retry tomorrow.
  • "Study Investments Strategies" now reads "Study Investment Strategies".
  • Offer Investment Advice no longer shows the reply about losing it all on a bad stock pick.
  • Players using another game language now see English text instead of blank entries.

Good to know

  • In-person clients start at Level 2.
  • Quitting while a cycle is running pays nothing for that cycle. The game shows a note when that happens.

For translators

Game text: 2 new, 35 changed, 0 removed. Other languages are now filled with English text, ready to translate. Translations for this mod

About

A new skill, Money Mastery, lives on any computer. Your Sim can trade stocks, prepare tax documents, study investment and go to money seminars, and new actions open as the skill grows. Then comes the CPA exam. It’s hard at first, but at Money Mastery 4 or 5 most Sims pass, and passing opens two ways to work.

  • Money Mastery A new 5-level skill.
  • CPA Exam Pass it to start working.
  • Office Job Certified Accountant, Monday to Thursday.
  • Home Clients Digital clients, paid every 3 days.
  • Face to Face Sign other Sims as clients.

The office side is the Certified Accountant career, with regular weekday hours and real accounting work from the first day. The at-home side is Personal Accountant, a side line with your own clients. Work for digital clients on the computer, sign clients face to face from Level 2, get paid every 3 days and climb five levels. You can do one, the other, or both.

Read the full guide →Every setting, conversation and feature, explained.

Mod help

Install or update

  1. Replace the old file: delete maplebell_AccountantCareer.package and put the new one in its place. The file name is the same.

Installation guide

Troubleshooting

I can’t find the MoneyMastery menu. It’s on computers. Check the mod’s file and XML Injector are both installed, and custom content is on in Game Options.

I can’t find the Certified Accountant career. Your Sim must pass the CPA exam first. The career is for young adults and older.

I keep failing the CPA exam. Raise Money Mastery to level 4. The chance to pass jumps from about 1 in 10 to about 9 in 10. You can try again after 24 Sim hours.

My Sim isn’t getting paid any more. Check whether your Sim is on a break. Choose Resume Job to bring the clients back and start a new 3-day cycle.

Latest updates

All updates

Contact

Have a collaboration idea, permission request, or something else? Write to me.

Something wrong with a mod? Report an issue.

Leave this blank if you prefer.

I’ll only use it to follow up.

Privacy notice