maplebell

Accountant Career: Office & At-Home Mod (Patreon)

Published:

2026-11-13 06:04:01

Imported:

2026-11

Downloads

Download Maplebell_Accountant_Career_v1.0.zip

Content

Important changes for returning players

The beta is now version 1.0. This release improves computer interactions, client-related tasks, pay-cycle handling, quitting and resuming work, and missing icons or text. Keep only the current maplebell_AccountantCareer.package; replace the older beta file rather than installing both.

About Accountant Career: Office & At-Home

This mod came from a Patreon request, and I thought it was such a fun idea to explore! I wanted a career that didn't force every Sim onto the same schedule. Some Sims want a regular office job, while others would rather work with clients from home .. or do both. The Accountant Career adds a five-level Money Mastery skill, the CPA exam, a Certified Accountant career and a flexible Personal Accountant service for digital and in-person clients.

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

The Accountant Career adds a new skill, Money Mastery, and a CPA exam. Pass the exam and two doors open:

The office side: the Certified Accountant career. One level, no promotions, regular hours.
The at-home side: Personal Accountant, a side line with your own clients. Digital clients you work for from any computer, and later in-person clients you meet face to face.

You can do one, the other, or both. A Personal Accountant can keep another job at the same time.

Version 1.0 is free. It is no longer a beta.

Requirements

The Sims 4 base game. No pack needed.
XML Injector. Required.

Install and update

Close the game.
Put maplebell_AccountantCareer.package in Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods.
Install XML Injector if you do not have it.
In Game Options > Other, make sure Enable Custom Content and Mods is on.

Updating from the beta

Replace the old file: delete maplebell_AccountantCareer.package and put the new one in its place. The file name is the same. Never keep two copies.

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.

How to use it in game

Step 1: build the Money Mastery skill

Money Mastery is a 5-level skill for teens and older. Click a computer and open the MoneyMastery menu. Most actions there raise the skill, and new ones open as it goes up.

1 .. What opens: Trade Stocks, Attend Seminars
2 .. What opens: Analyze Stock Market Trends, Prepare Tax Documents, Study Investment Strategies, and the socials Discuss Market Trends and Money-Saving Tips
3 .. What opens: The social Offer Financial Advice

A few of these, in plain words:

Trade Stocks is a money gamble. You can win or lose. The higher your Money Mastery, the better it goes on average. You can trade once a day.
Prepare Tax Documents usually earns a refund, but it can also cost §200 to §300. It is only done when you choose it, once a day.
After Trade Stocks or Prepare Tax Documents, the row greys out with "Already done today. Available again tomorrow."
Analyze Stock Market Trends gives you a reading of the market. It is for flavour. It does not change your odds.
Financial Seminar: a phone action. It costs §350 and takes your Sim away for two days. They come back with more skill and a moodlet. You can leave early.

Step 2: pass the CPA exam

In the MoneyMastery menu choose Attempt Certified Public Accountant Exam. It takes four hours and costs §1,500.

Below Money Mastery 4 the chance to pass is low (about 1 in 10).
At Money Mastery 4 or 5 it is about 9 in 10.
Pass and your Sim is a CPA ("Certified Success").
Fail and you can try again after 24 Sim hours.

The office side: Certified Accountant

Once your Sim is a CPA, the Certified Accountant career shows in the usual job list. It is for young adults and older.

One level. You start doing real accounting work straight away, with no promotions to chase.
Monday to Thursday, from 9 AM, seven hours a day. §140 an hour.
It has daily tasks, and they count the mod's own actions. For Manage Investments you can also use Trade Stocks.
Take Vacation Day is on the phone, under Business.

The at-home side: Personal Accountant

Getting your first clients

Be a CPA.
On a computer, open MoneyMastery > Personal Accountant and choose Offer Financial Management Services (Digital Clients).
It does not always work. The chance is low at first and much better at Money Mastery 4 (about 9 in 10).
When it works you get a "New Client Partnership" message. You are a Level 1 Personal Accountant and can start working right away.

Doing the work

On the computer, the Personal Accountant menu has nine tasks for your digital clients. Pick any you like. You do not have to do them all.

Every task raises your performance for the current cycle.
Financial Health Check (two hours) tells you how you are doing, from Poor to Exceptional. It gives a grade even before your first task, using the same grade levels as the paycheck.

Getting paid

You are paid every 3 days.
The more work you do in a cycle, the better you are paid. A cycle with no work pays like a low score.
Performance starts again from zero every cycle.

Client tasks, a payment and a promotion.

Promotions

There are five Personal Accountant levels. Your Sim can only move up a level after a cycle with more than 60 work. Even then it is a chance: about 7 in 10 from Level 1, and about 4 in 10 from Levels 2 to 4. There are no random level jumps, and the top level is never "promoted". Higher levels mean more pay.

In-person clients (the side line from Level 2)

From Personal Accountant Level 2, your Sim can sign clients face to face.

Click another Sim (teen or older, someone your Sim has met).
Open the MoneyMastery social menu and choose Offer Financial Management Services.
If they say yes, they become your Client and you become their Personal Accountant in the relationship panel.

You can have as many clients as you like. Your digital clients still need work too, so watch the workload.

Working for in-person clients

In person, with socials on your client: Review Financial Statements, Budget Consultation (a choice card) and Debt Reduction Plan.
On the computer: Manage Client Tasks (In-Person Clients).

In-person work and digital work are counted separately. One does not affect the other's pay. In-person work is also paid every 3 days.

A client can fire your Sim, and your Sim can stop working for a client.

Take a Break, Resume, Quit

All three are in the Personal Accountant menu on the computer.

Take a Break: for as long as you like. The cycle you are in finishes and pays once. After that, no pay until you come back. Your Sim gets the Taking a Break moodlet.
Resume Job: your digital clients come back, and a new 3-day cycle starts. Your in-person clients come back too if your Sim is Level 2 or higher and still has at least one client. A client signed while your Sim is on a break does not start a paid cycle. The cycle starts after Resume Job.
Quit Personal Accountant Career: takes effect at once and ends the digital and in-person sides together. Quitting mid-cycle pays nothing for that cycle, and a note tells you so. You can come back any time, but you start again from Level 1. Quitting during a break works too.

Known limits

A paycheck from another level. About 1 paycheck in 26 uses a different level's pay.
The in-person offer bonus. The better chance of signing an in-person client counts only at Personal Accountant Level 5.
Old clients after Quit. After you quit, old clients may still show as your Client in the relationship panel, and cannot be signed again after a restart.
Playing another household. If a pay cycle ends while your accountant is not on the active lot, it may stop without pay. A new cycle then starts by itself the next time your Sim appears.
English text. All 18 game languages show the English text for now.

Troubleshooting and FAQ

I cannot find the MoneyMastery menu. It is on computers. Check the package and XML Injector are installed and custom content is on.

I cannot 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 retry after 24 Sim hours.

Offer Financial Management Services keeps failing. It is a chance roll. For digital clients on the computer it works about 9 times in 10 at Money Mastery 4. For in-person clients it works about half the time at Money Mastery 4, and almost always at Personal Accountant Level 5.

I cannot offer my services to other Sims. In-person clients open at Personal Accountant Level 2. The other Sim must be a teen or older, someone you have met, and not already your client.

My paycheck was tiny. Pay follows how much work you did in that 3-day cycle. Use Financial Health Check to see where you stand.

I am not getting paid any more. Are you on a break? Choose Resume Job.

Can my Sim keep another job? Yes. The Personal Accountant side line runs alongside any other career. The Certified Accountant career is a normal job, so it takes your Sim's job slot.

Can children use it? Money Mastery is for teens and older. The career is for young adults and older. Children cannot be clients.

Do I have to do every task? No. Pick what you like. More work means better pay and a better chance of promotion.

If something else goes wrong, tell me what happened, what you expected, and your Money Mastery and Personal Accountant levels.

A note about the original release

I first shared this as an experimental idea from a Patreon request in August 2024. The Certified Accountant career has one level; the separate Personal Accountant client system has its own progression. Please don't confuse the two when following the instructions.

Complete changes in version 1.0

This is the first version out of beta. Changes since the last public file (the 2024 beta, maplebell_AccountantCareer.package).

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 autonomously
"Leave the seminar early" now has its Yes and No buttons. They were blank.