Good luck with that. I freaking applaud you, accountants. Every time my wife and my buddy start talking all this finance/accounting shit - I'm falling asleep almost fucking instantly.
What are you studying?
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How do you find nurse school? My sister is doing the same and she's studying like crazy
Accounting fuck yeah
I'm graduating soon with a business transfer AA, hopefully transfer to UW to continue and get my Masters in accounting. Right now, my target job is to become a forensic accountant, but I've been looking in other areas like law, which are also pretty interesting to me. Might be too late to start law though, already 22 :(
hXcjedders
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I need to get my CPA and B.A, but I don't know if I'm anywhere close to being ready, I only had accounting 1, 2 and 3 D:
hXcjedders
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Accounting is more about regulation than it is about math. You pretty much won't be able to get your CPA until you have a masters in accounting anyways. You need like 150 credit hours (not 100% sure from memory). That would be the equivalent of a masters. You don't NEED it in Accounting nor do you NEED a masters but the test is designed so that you pretty much have to have a master's level knowledge in accounting.
You also must have one year (2000 hours) of qualified experience in the field + recommendation letters from existing CPAs.
Oh boy, it's going to be one of those "no experience without job, no job without experience" situations
hXcjedders
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You don't need a CPA to do accounting at all. Anyone can call themselves an accountant with a degree, and most places wouldn't hire a CPA for low level accounting work anyways because they're too expensive. Bascially CPAs have an official legal opinion, meaning that if they say something accounting related is true, it holds up in a court of law. Related to that, CPAs are a required party to do annual internal audits of corporations. There's a lot more things that a CPA can do and someone with just an an accounting degree can't, but those are a couple examples.
Very rarely outside a CPA firm will you find an accounting department filled with CPAs. Most would be staff accountants with a B.A. or M.A with no CPA.
Not exactly. Most companies, once informed you are in the process of passing all 4 CPA exams or already passed them and need work experience (CPA committee allows you to get your license 1.5 ear after passing the last exam) will hire you on the fly. In that-a-way you'll gain your experience and will be able to get the license itself.
That's how my buddy got a job at E&Y - he already passed 3 exams when they hired him in August. In November he passed 4th, the final exam and now will be working until August this year to meet experience requirement and get his CPA.
Studying like good little boys and girls......lolno I just don't study anything too interesting
I am an actuary (prob/stats on steroids), so I am constantly studying something for professional exams.
Usually actuaries work in property/casualty, healthcare, or pensions... however, my end goal is to become a quant (quantitative analyst, i.e. the people that destroyed the U.S. economy in 2008), so I have been working mostly in business intelligence and analytics. So right now, I am getting some preliminary economics courses out of the way.
Usually actuaries work in property/casualty, healthcare, or pensions... however, my end goal is to become a quant (quantitative analyst, i.e. the people that destroyed the U.S. economy in 2008), so I have been working mostly in business intelligence and analytics. So right now, I am getting some preliminary economics courses out of the way.
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