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The article analyzes the interpretations of accountants about their labour in a particular context, highlighting the competencies and skills. People build interpretations from the performance of their daily tasks, from the interactions with whom they share their jobs with and the prevailing dynamics in organizations. Quantitative and qualitative data are obtained in an online survey, applied in 2017, to persons qualified to practice Accounting in Colombia. In the interpretations, the multiple tasks that professionals must face in their labors are highlighted, they recognize the importance of competencies, but the most relevant are skills. In their labour, the use of skills to comply with urgencies prevails, framed in repetitive activities or mechanical actions; complex competences are recognized as important but remain in secondary places, just like the projection of the future and the need to participate in international networks and spaces.