03-13-2011, 08:41 PM
My wife is an accountant and if you want to go into accounting don't get a finance degree. You may have a hard time getting a job in the accounting field. I can only speak of the situation locally, but it makes sense.
I am not trying to disparage a degree in finance, but what they have found is that many of the finance majors they interviewed were people who started as accounting majors and reached class called Accounting II. This class separated the people who really wanted to be accountants and those who only thought they did. Many programs have classes like that, it separates out people who really want that degree and those that might not want it as bad. Anyway people who did poorly in Accounting II generally switched to a finance major which was not considered as hard a accounting.
I am not trying to disparage a degree in finance, but what they have found is that many of the finance majors they interviewed were people who started as accounting majors and reached class called Accounting II. This class separated the people who really wanted to be accountants and those who only thought they did. Many programs have classes like that, it separates out people who really want that degree and those that might not want it as bad. Anyway people who did poorly in Accounting II generally switched to a finance major which was not considered as hard a accounting.
The only difference between brilliance and stupidity is that brilliance has limits.
CLEPs taken:
Information Systems and Computer Applications 72
Principles of Management 63
American Government 62
CLEPs taken:
Information Systems and Computer Applications 72
Principles of Management 63
American Government 62
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