2006-08-31 11:25:51 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
Accounting is a great career. You will have many choices. You can work in Tax, Financial, Auditing. You can start and run your own business or branch off into management. The money is great. I would suggest going to the best college in your area because it will make finding that first job much easier.
Most people think accounting is the same as book keeping and it is not so don't worry about the outsourcing. You do not want the jobs that have been outsourced anyway. Accounting is definitely not boring. It is also more writing and communicating than math. Computers do much of the work that you do in introductory accounting.
2006-08-31 12:58:41 · answer #1 · answered by mikesd6192002 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You should choose a career based on your personal interest in that career. Don't choose a career based on making other people happy or based on the money behind it. If you make the wrong career choice you will never be happy and in the long run you will lose the time you spent working on the career and the effort you put into trying to like it. You will never be happy in something you don't want to do.
If you do decide to become an accountant and think that its the right career for you. If you like dealing with math and dealing with numbers. Yes it is a good career. There is a lot of demand for those in various accounting fields, in major cities or just small towns. My friend is currently perusing this career and she has had a lot of job offers so far and she's only just into her third semester.
Good luck with your choice and I hope that you deside to do what you think is best for you.
2006-08-31 11:36:16 · answer #2 · answered by ♥ Lips of Morphine ♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seeing as that's the profession I'm going into- I sure hope so :)
I seem to see a lot of job listings for accountants, though many of them want more experience than I would have right out of college. However, as American gets more and more into debt, people who know how to work with money are going to have more opportunities than ever.
2006-08-31 11:29:33 · answer #3 · answered by Vadalia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on whether you are male or female - and where you live - most female accountants in my area has to open their own business to do what they were trained to do - I have an associate degree in accounting, bachelor degree in accounting, and bachelor degree in economics - could not get a position as an accountant in the area - had to take position as an accountant clerk!@
2006-08-31 11:46:02 · answer #4 · answered by nswblue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, especially if you are smart enough to be a Certified Public Accountant. The CPA test is very difficult, and only a small number pass it , the first time around.
2006-08-31 11:29:07 · answer #5 · answered by WC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I sure hope so, that is what I am college for. My business teacher says he has never known a accountant who couldn't find work!
2006-08-31 11:28:28 · answer #6 · answered by sweet smile 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a CPA and was an auditor for a few years. Great pay, bad hours, but it opens many, many doors.
2006-08-31 15:38:22 · answer #7 · answered by Salem 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boring to most but solid. I understand they outsource some of that offshore though.
2006-08-31 11:31:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋