Your initial post makes me wonder if accounting is for you... While a lot of experienced CA's/CPA's don't do number crunching now - you have to like it and put up with 12-14 hr days of doing it for a few months at a time (Jan-March) for 5+ years (and 8+ hours the rest of the year) before you begin to spend more time managing, and then another 5 years until you're really in a senior position where a large chunk of your time isn't either creating spreadsheets or reviewing them and providing queries back to very junior staff.
So if you "don't like sitting all day crunching numbers" I'd be honest with yourself - can you get through a very busy 5+ years of doing that day in and day out, to see the other side? If not, you'll likely end up like many articling students and quit along the way.
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