05-13-2020, 08:12 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-13-2020, 08:18 AM by freeloader.)
Within the world of online education, there are a lot of options and the best fit really depends on your situation. What are your priorities and goal? If you think your future is taking over the family farm and you want to equip yourself to be able to manage the finances of your farm in a way that a lot of farmers might not be able to and maybe do some bookkeeping on the side, that is great. If you want to open a small bookkeeping shop in rural Oklahoma, that is great. If you want to move to Oklahoma City or Tulsa and work as a CPA in a small accounting firm, that is great. If you want to move to Dallas or Chicago or New York Or London and work in a big national/international accounting firm, that is great too. If I were advising you, my advice would differ depending on what you think you want to do with your life.
I am working on a bachelor’s degree in accounting right now and doing it online. I previously earned a BA and MA in history. For me at least, accounting takes a while to sink into my brain. Accounting also builds upon itself. You can’t take Intro to Financial Accounting and then forget everything the way that you kind of can with some disciplines, especially in the social sciences and humanities. It’s more like math in that way—you can’t do calculus if you can’t add and subtract.
All of that to say, I personally don’t think online alternate credit providers make a lot of sense, at least for your accounting classes. Study.com offers upper level accounting classes, but from what I have seen most universities limit what they will give you for these. TESU seems to accept them for what they are (Intermediate Accounting gives you credit for Intermediate Accounting, for instance), but almost all of the other colleges I have looked at give you general transfer credit, meaning you would have to retake (and pay again for) those classes.
That said, if you haven’t done so already, I would register at Sophia.org and take the accounting class they offer if you haven’t taken a college-level accounting class. You could also knock out a bunch of your general education course (history, English, statistics, college algebra) while you are at it. Hopefully you get some credit for it. Even if you don’t, it will give you a good intro to the subject matter and might help you get admitted to the college or university of your choice.
The other point worth making is that most people on this forum are not in your situation. Most of us are older and trying to figure out how to earn a degree as a 30 or 40 year old, often while balancing work and family commitments. I, for instance, work in government and need an accounting degree (or equivalent) to check some boxes to be eligible for promotion. While my goal and yours are the same—an accounting degree—what makes sense for you and I may be fairly different.
I am working on a bachelor’s degree in accounting right now and doing it online. I previously earned a BA and MA in history. For me at least, accounting takes a while to sink into my brain. Accounting also builds upon itself. You can’t take Intro to Financial Accounting and then forget everything the way that you kind of can with some disciplines, especially in the social sciences and humanities. It’s more like math in that way—you can’t do calculus if you can’t add and subtract.
All of that to say, I personally don’t think online alternate credit providers make a lot of sense, at least for your accounting classes. Study.com offers upper level accounting classes, but from what I have seen most universities limit what they will give you for these. TESU seems to accept them for what they are (Intermediate Accounting gives you credit for Intermediate Accounting, for instance), but almost all of the other colleges I have looked at give you general transfer credit, meaning you would have to retake (and pay again for) those classes.
That said, if you haven’t done so already, I would register at Sophia.org and take the accounting class they offer if you haven’t taken a college-level accounting class. You could also knock out a bunch of your general education course (history, English, statistics, college algebra) while you are at it. Hopefully you get some credit for it. Even if you don’t, it will give you a good intro to the subject matter and might help you get admitted to the college or university of your choice.
The other point worth making is that most people on this forum are not in your situation. Most of us are older and trying to figure out how to earn a degree as a 30 or 40 year old, often while balancing work and family commitments. I, for instance, work in government and need an accounting degree (or equivalent) to check some boxes to be eligible for promotion. While my goal and yours are the same—an accounting degree—what makes sense for you and I may be fairly different.
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