What to Do with Accounting Degree
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 มิ.ย. 2024
- There are lot of things you can do with an accounting degree, with multiple career paths in public accounting and private industry. You could even start your own business or break into finance.
In this video, I focus on jobs you can get right out of college with an accounting degree.
If you go into public accounting, you can work in audit, tax, or consulting. If you work for a smaller public accounting firm, you might end up doing a mix of these activities.
If you go into private industry, you'll do the accounting for a single firm (as opposed to public accounting, where you'll have multiple clients) like Apple or Walmart (or for a nonprofit or government agency). Within private industry there are several paths: you could start as a staff accountant, a cost accountant, or an internal auditor.
You could also start your own accounting firm, or use your accounting degree to get a job in finance. An accounting degree would be helpful for getting a job in investment banking or for becoming a financial analyst, a credit analyst, or a budget analyst.
You could also work in accounts receivable or accounts payable or become an accounting clerk, but those jobs don't typically require an accounting degree (you'd likely be overqualified).
If you want to get into forensic accounting, you might consider starting out as an internal auditor.
0:00 Introduction
0:16 Public Accounting Jobs
1:56 Private Industry Jobs
3:31 Finance Jobs
4:00 Honorable mentions
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You always have the relevant information I seek as as a near Hon. BCom-Acct. graduate. Thanks for giving us the answers that we don't ask enough in class.
You are so welcome. I wish you the best on the job market!
I hope you read my comment. I just wanted to say that you helped me a lot through college and helped do better on my accounting exams. You’re simply better than all of the accounting professors I had in college. I appreciate you!
Thank you for the kind words, it means a lot. I'm grateful to have been part of your educational journey. Congratulations on graduating from college, and I hope you have a successful and fulfilling life and career!
Started off as an Auditor for the feds now I'm an Accountant. It has served me well!!!
hey
not to peak into your private life and not to be rude
but what income do you get per month or whatever info you can give me
I'm looking to get a job myself.
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Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the info
Love your videos! They’re the best! I work at the Ark Encounter in college and I love my job SO MUCH! haha I’m graduating soon and am nervous I wont love my job as much!!! We will see what God will do with my life.
I had never heard of the Ark Encounter so I googled it just now and all I can say is wow! I can see where that would be an interesting job when you're in college. Make sure to go to any career fairs at your school and apply to as many firms as you can! Also, it helps to get on a first-name basis with the people in the career center as they can forward you opportunities they hear about from firms. Good luck, and don't give up!
Sounds like such a cool place to work at!! I heard Ken Ham is the kind of person who is very straightforward 😅
Thank you for this video. I currently am thinking about what to do with my degree because I only have a year and a half of accounting experience as an intern but am currently working at a job that’s not related to accounting. However, my job does have tuition reimbursement so I’m working on going back to school to get the MAcc and praying I get an accounting job by improving my grades in graduate school.
I hope you are able to find a great job once you complete your master's degree in accounting!
My man used "an accounting degree" and "wonderful and fulfilling career" in the same sentence.
I started in transaction services with my degree. best choice for me
CPA here who went from Public Accounting (Tax) > Investment Banking > Corporate Development (M&A
And unless you know somebody, you can still end up in a dead end job earning barely above McDonald's wages even with a CPA and a dozen years of experience... ah yes, government work.
Wish...I would have chosen a different degree.
where I live food delivery drivers with no education working 40 hours a week make more than accountants working double that time. The profession has become an absolute joke in the last 20 years.
Can you do careers for an Economics degree, please? I am struggling to choose between studying accounting or economics
Reach out to me on LinkedIn with more info and I'll share my thoughts
Hi Edspira. I have an accounting bachelor’s degree and a master’s in business analytics. Currently, I am a data engineer, but I would like to get back into a more accounting-based role. I would also like to use my knowledge of data and statistics. Are there any jobs you recommend that fulfill these goals?
Cost accountant. Greetings from Argentina, from an accountant.
One option is to apply for consulting (or specifically tech consulting or tech risk advisory) positions at Big 4 firms. Another route is to apply to positions as a financial analyst, or an analyst role in the banking industry. Depends on whether you're more into tech/consulting (huge demand for this right now) or financial analysis/markets (in which case an analyst position would be better)
I'm a part qualified ACCA and I don't have a degree. So my question is, do I need to have a degree inorder to get a well paying job or should i just focus on completing my qualification?
You can get the Oxford Brookes degree with ACCA. You will be fine with just ACCA.
That's interesting. In the UK, working in practice is more poorly paid than working in industry. I'm on £5k more and I'm pretty junior.
do you like working 70 hours a week while earning a little bit more than minimum wage and spending the rest of the time keeping up with the endless ifrs/Gaap adjustments? if yes then accounting is for you, but if you wish to live a decent life and have work life balance it is defiantly not for you. If I go back I would for sure not go with accounting. Accountants and auditors are criminally underpaid for the hours they put in, not to mention that you have to keep studying for the rest of your life making your free hours also work hours. If any of you college kids about to study accounting, DO NOT DO IT unless you enjoy being a corporate wage slave working the normal hours of two jobs and receiving the salary of one job, you have been warned.