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I'm currently a college sophomore and I'm deciding whether I should major in accounting or not. I've spent a year taking science classes and realized science is probably not my strength.
Is accounting a good fit for me? I know nothing of the business world or any kind of money-related knowledge yet. But I am very hardworking and have very good work ethics. I always study and tend to pay attention to detail. I like doing jobs where it's more objective rather than subjective. I like working with numbers and crunching numbers because it's pretty straightforward.
I feel like being an accountant could be an appropriate fit for me but I'm not sure if I'd be able to succeed at it because I have no prior knowledge of the business and financial field. I also don't know if I'd have the right personality or interview skills to get an accounting job.
I hear it's a VERY difficult process to become an accountant, especially when taking the CPA exam.
Know nothing about it? Well isn't that why you would study it in the first place so you can learn the discipline?
From what I remember about my accounting courses, it requires understanding of the (many) rules, knowing when to apply these rules and doing analysis.
The math part is very easy. Just simple operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication.
Studying accounting and practicing it professionally is very tedious, especially at the entry level. But it's not rocket science so you can learn it through perseverance.
And as someone in accounting for 20 years, please please please do NOT go into this field if you do not have the desire or aptitude for it. I have lost count of how many times I have come into a company and had to fix the prior person's mistakes. If you are not a perfectionist, detail oriented, good at math or want to stare at numbers and crunch figures until your eyes bleed, find another field to go into.
If he is a science major, then he has the math skills to build on. Accounting requires a lot of effort and tolerance for detail, but it's not very abstract.
Do I need to get an accounting degree from an accredited school? The school I currently attend isn't on the AACSB list so I'm not sure it it's accredited or not
Do I need to get an accounting degree from an accredited school? The school I currently attend isn't on the AACSB list so I'm not sure it it's accredited or not
1)Why are you starting a new thread on the same subject?
2)Have you asked these questions to your school counselor?
3)Do you know how to use 'The Google' ?
Every other thread on this board makes me wonder this.
I don't know if kids today are incompetent, or just lazy, or maybe it's just the "done thing" to ask strangers for help like this.
it's the parents that are making them incompetent and lazy. Parents now have to cradle their children under their wing until they are 18 because other wise they are considered unfit parents by today's social standards. "You just spanked your kid! That's child abuse! Call the authorities!" Schools are also lacking. High school is where you really learn how to be Not incompetent and not lazy. But now you can be lazy and incompetent and still get a 4.0 in high school.
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