Accountant: Expectations vs. Reality
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In this video I will be interviewing a successful accountant (Bill), who is now working as a financial controller for a large Financial Technology (Fintech) company, all about his profession. We will be discussing whether an accounting degree is worth it, the pros and cons of accounting and the best tips for those who are thinking about becoming an accountant. Enjoy!
This was my first ever interview so please leave any suggestions etc down below for improvement.
Also, there's a good chance that if you ask a question below, Bill himself may answer them, so feel free to ask questions.
Thanks to Bill for coming on the channel, check out his channel here:
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Young people: accounting opens a lot of doors. You aren't going to be stuck doing one thing as long as you are capable of developing yourself while working in your career. It will be a lot of work pivot into these higher roles, but you 100% can do it and will be taken seriously as an accountant. It's not what you think!
I would like more of this as a series for different career fields.
More coming
@@ShaneHummus What is the difference between computer science, applied computing, information technology, computer information systems, and information systems.
@@SupremeJarJar please @ me when he answers this question! I want to know as well
@@SupremeJarJar Ugh these majors sound the same lmao.
yessss
as a 12th grader who's really considering accounting a big deal, this surely helps quite a ton. thanks.
Glad to hear that. Best of luck!
I'd suggest minoring or even double majoring in computer science since accounting is at a high stake of getting automated. Other than that, I support you man
@@JapanWalkerJJ does a minor in computer science rlly set you apart? I want to major in information systems and minor in computer science but I don’t know if it’s even worth minoring in computer science
@@mannyerick7235 I'm currently double majoring in International business and information systems and I'm proud of my progress so far. Honestly yeah I'd say go for it why not. It's only a minor so you don't have to go through the whole program, and you'll be able to have more technical expertise than the average IS major with no minor/double major.
Never said "accounting will get automated" i said that it is at a high stake of getting automated, shane even stated this in a video himself. You're acting like i said accounting sucks and do not go for it, because thats not what I'm saying at all. I'm just suggesting that its smarter to minor in something along with it like computer science if you're gonna take accounting. In fact I think you should minor in at least one thing if you take any business degree. I'm 100% for this kid going for accounting it is a really good major and I've had friends succeed in it, that's what I want to see and I want to help future fellow business majors to succeed.
As an accountant I can say this information is gold. You are doing a great service getting people this kind of detailed information.
do you regret becoming an accountant?
Super thrilled to be here with you Shane!!
Thanks again for coming on the channel Bill!
Quick question so you say there is no math in accounting?
Sorry I didn’t understand that part very much. Thank you!
@@user-xy2ly4uz6p Accounting is mostly math and English.
The highest math level you'll need in college is pre-calc and/or business math; however, on the job, the bare minimum is algebra.
@@GanNing221 so you're saying the math gets more complicated
@@Tururu134 Yes, the math difficulty gradually increases in college.
However when you get an accounting job, the math stays at algebra.
I think accountants should focus on mastering excel before learning a programming language like Python or SQL. I've inquired about this before as well, and there is a gap that needs to be bridged between the programming language and excel in order to better streamline tasks. People in FP&A say the same thing, focus more on understanding the ins and outs of the financial statements, then the programming languages can be secondary tools to make you more efficient. But it needs to be in that order.
You should really start a podcast! I would love to hear interviews with people of many different professions and backgrounds, and I think you would be a great person to interview people!
That's a great idea!
You should do a lawyer episode next. That would be interesting.
Noted on that
@@ShaneHummus Architecture too!
That’s sounds like a good one
@@ShaneHummus corporate lawyer preferred
it would be nice to interview someone in marketing
questions to ask:
1.pros and cons of a marketing job
2.do you regret working in marketing
3.how long does it take to get a marketing job after graduating
4.day in the life of a marketer
5.salary expectations
6.tips for starting a marketing career
7.how was your college experience in marketing
8.tips to rise into the chief marketing officer role
9.do you prefer working in marketing or sales or business development
10.do you enjoy working in marketing
and more thanks
Thank you for this video Shane!! I'm doing an accounting internship and this definitely helps me see what lies ahead for me!
This is the best interview I have watched about this career and the questions were soooo good. This NEEDS more views
Super excited to see you interviewing Bill. I’ve been following his TH-cam channel as well and was totally stoked to see him on your channel.
Thank you Shane and Bill!! It’s nice to see two TH-camrs I follow collaborate. In my life, I’ve never found it easy to decide what I want to do as a career and y’all discussed questions I’ve been very curious about in Accounting. Thank you guys.😊
My pleasure.. Thanks for the comment Aaron
Im 15 and live in london but i cant stop watching your videos as they are really insightfull in future careers. And i dont have a clue what i want to do when im older. So thank you for the vids!!
Love this so much ! I have seen people cover accounting by people who absolutely hated their job! This the first one that I see that was positive. Thank you.
They hated it because to them it was tedious and mentally engaging and is generally hard work and sometimes long hours, but I am financially motivated, plus I want the finer things in life in the most practical way, so accounting is the best option, I don't care for what those who hate their jobs think.
i appreciate the both of you. you asked some amazing questions and he articulated himself very well and he did an amazing job of explaining accounting. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the feedback
I appreciate you getting a speaker to inform us on this career! Love your videos 👍🏽
Thanks for watching
great video!! going into senior year of high school and finding this tremendously helpful. definitely think im going to major into accounting at this point, what a relief to have that figured out
*PLEASE MAKE THIS A SERIES*
Thank you so much for this video Shane, I really appreciate it. Now I really know and sealed that I want to pursue Accounting as my career and I am so thankful to have so many resources to look to on this channel! Love your content :D
Shane you did an excellent job with the interview. SO much great information from Bill.
This was great! Would love to see marketing, international business or public relations
This channel has helped me alot and guided me through my own research 💯
Glad to help
This was amazing and exactly what I needed. Not only was Bill great at going into detail and explaining things. Shane asked great questions I didn't even think of. I'm so glad TH-cam recommended this to me. Thank you to both of you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing content Shane. Please do more of these in the future with other careers!
Stay tuned for more Ulises
Appreciate everything you do!!! Thanks for all the helpful information 🙏🏼
My pleasure!!
Omg this was extraordinary content. I usually don’t border leaving a comment but I wish I could like multiple times lol. Thank you this interview a lot of meaningful insights to accounting especially the last part of wanting to own a business later on with after gaining experience. Please make this a series thanks again!!!
👏👏👏 Thanks Shane! That was an amazing interview, just to resume in a couple of words : Simply Professional. I can't wait to watch more interviews like that, with professionals from different areas... And the links and other references bellow the video are just perfect! Rich of good information!👍.
Glad you enjoyed it Anderson! Expect more to come
These interviews are great. Just finished the other one about IT with Josh!
Thank you for this interview. I just finished an associate's degree in accounting and wanted to switch majors for my bachelor's degree, but this gave me a new perspective.
Great interview. I would add business consulting services as another accounting tangent. And corporate strategic planning. And M&A, for example due diligence activities. And government regulatory work. And business valuations services. [I started with an accounting degree and have done all this and more]. The key for these types of paths is to keep your eyes open - but the common element is that the accounting degree was the foundation for each of these activities.
Thanks for adding that. Cheers!
woahh i wasn't expecting this collaboration. i follow you both so this was a nice surprise.
Glad you liked it!! haha
Been a a subscriber of both of you for a while! You guys are great!
I really loved this! Great interview!
Would love to see a financial manager on this
I might make one in the future
Fully agreed. Thank you for such an insightful explaination.
Great interview with lots of great topics covered! Thank you both! 🙂
Let’s gooo!! I always wanted your version of this. Engineeredtruth unfortunately stopped doing this, which made him popular. I see your channel taking off if you make this a series! Radiation therapy next?
Thanks for tuning in Mike
This is GOLD Bro. 👏🏾👏🏾
Being an accountant myself, who also works in a big 4 audit firm, I can fully relate to the entire discussion.
Great interview and very helpful, thank you both. This might be more a inside baseball question so I don't expect you, Shane to know the answer. Would you recommend people who finish BBA in accounting get work right away and continue to finish additional CPA educational requirements concurrently? Or, alternately, finish all CPA educational requirements and take the CPA exam to get the theory portion out of the way, then collect work experience to receive CPA designation.
dude, this is such a great content. holy.... a lot of people including me are wanting to know what it's like to be in certain career.
I would also love to see people covered who want to go into accounting who are older, and have a bachelors other then accounting.
This was a neat idea. I think you would be doing a lot of people a service by making content like this more often.
Got it Luke
Very informative and excellent choice of interviewee.🎯
Interesting point on how an accounting degree serves as a better foundation for financial analyst positions.
Thank you 😊 Your videos have helped me so much!
I'm going into Accounting, so I'll definitely see what's up in this video.
I'm actually an accounting major so this video is really useful. I am also glad my CS experience and my current work experience as a IT technician may pay off also
Best of luck!
Excellent video! I found it very helpful and informative
Investigating and explaining differences that I find in financial reports is 80% of my job as an accountant
I'm learning accounting simply because every entrepreneurial thing I've ever done my weak spot was any form of paperwork or accounting whatsoever at the end of each year! haha figure paying someone the rest of my life will cost more than doing it myself :D
That's great chad. I hope you enjoyed the video
@@ShaneHummus Thanks, Shade! :D
This was insurmountable helpful thanks! I would based on my own knowledge and talking to others agree that accounting should be a higher ranked degree than finance where 'X factor' is less relevant and more subjective in real life... but you're entitled to your own opinion and research Shane
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this Pranav. Much appreciated
Thank you for this video. You have no idea how helpful this is 🙏🏾
You're welcome!
I would love to see an MIS interview :)
Pleasee
I've worked as a financial analyst, started and exited multiple businesses successfully, and am in a master's in accountancy..... WHAT AM I DOING HERE??? hahaha! Great interview man!
Awesome interview man. I appreciate. Thank you
Thank you for this in depth interview, i found out after 3 college courses that accounting is not math many years ago. But accounting still lingered in my head. Now for sure i know accounting is not something i would pursue id rather pursue math that has more flexibility. Thank you again
Very good questions Shane! Would you bring an OT? That would be interesting, thanks!
Hey Shane, I'm a sophomore student from Texas and I'm starting to investigate about colleges here in Texas. Can you do a video about the best colleges from Texas. Love your content and keep the good work!
Just subscribed! This is awesome.
This was a informative video. Thank you for sharing.
Will share this video as a guide for my students whi want to take up Accounting
Wow,i finishe the vedio without even knowing it!
Very good questions with very good answers!
This is why i love this channel..always help !!!
Thank you so much.i am from Africa continent..the salary is sooooo less when i see but atleast i know what to do in the carrers..
Keep these up ! 👍🏼
Currently in school for Accounting. Really enjoying it so far but again I'm in first year so the difficulty hasn't quite kicked in yet. Looking forward to the video and its insight, whether positive or negative.
nice! good luck
Hey Shane! Great content as always!
I’m in my first semester of community college and initially decided to major in biology, but then, I saw one of your videos saying that this degree isn’t so great if you don’t have higher education, which I don’t desire to get.
I was also very worried about taking these hard chem, physics, and math classes in the future because science isn’t a huge passion of mine. But helping and caring for people is something I’m very passionate about. So instead, a few days ago, I’ve decided to major in nursing!
So my question is, can you please make a video like this based on being a registered nurse or getting a BSN? It would be so helpful if you can interview an RN. Thanks! 🙏🏼❤️
Noted!
I went to queens college too. Majored in economics.
Thank you for this.
I was directed to study Accounting as a career as I started at work. I was steered by a former staff training manager. I was so pleased as I notch up 30 years next year in the industry. I have never NOT has employment in this industry as I have worked in various industries but all relating to finance. I have worked in all facets of Accounting & I found it challenging with a variety of projects. You need to crawl before you can walk ................................. nobody like Auditing or Data Mining or Statistics but you need to learn the ropes before you can progress.
Very helpful - thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
This is really cool; please do more of these!
Thanks Momin.. Will do
@@ShaneHummus thanks for always being there and listening to what we have to say and responding to us.
When your degree is accountancy (major in accounting), it doesn’t really matter where you took it. The competency level is the same whether you went to a big university/college or community college. But for fancy courses like sociology, marketing, psychology, the university/college perhaps really matter, perhaps you will have an advantage if you went to a big university/college.
That was great! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm an almost old lady who's thinking of a mid-life+ career change. Bill explained that his career path was leading him to a position as CFO, yet he was not sure that pushing more of his available time into the needs of such a position was the right thing for him and his young children. He is obviously energetic, ambitious, capable; yet the family situation forces a choice that could de-center his career--and stall his ascent up the ladder. At least, that's what he said. I was struck by the thought that women certainly deal with this choice, and (in my experience, just in my experience, ok) it is exactly this which has led to fewer women than men continuing up into the highest positions. (That is, no one in 2022 is pushing women down; they are just more likely than men to self-select out, in favor of rebalancing toward the family.)
Wow I can’t wait to see it !!
😁
Great content. I wish this information was available when I needed to pick a degree.
This is very informative. I'll be pursing a BS in Accounting this fall at a CUNY school, same as Bill did.
That's great Yamille! Good luck
I watch both yours and his channel 😊
Joining and attending school clubs and meets is the biggest thing for getting your first job. My GPA is 3.0 and I struggled to get a job, I went to one event and now I have 3 internship offers and 2 full time offers even tho my grades are below rhe min requirements for most of the firms
definitely you are going to hit 1 million this year
Wow I hope lol
such a great idea, hoping for finance next
Yepp me too
WOW this is a very useful information, thank you for making this video.
Thanks! Glad it was helpful
I loved my former accountant but geez what a huge savings when I went online with Turbo Tax and used their accountant for my business. In the future is online. I uploaded my documents and went through them with her and boom she saved me money... same as my former accountant in person. Future is online.
I just got accepted into a Masters of Accounting so this came out at the perfect time! I'm excited but nervous...
Congrats!!
Congrats! I chose to not do MAcc because it seems better to just get a CPA since you'll want to get your CPA as well.
@@Chironex_Fleckeri yeah, but every state requires a minimum of 150 credit hours to apply to tax the CPA exam. Getting a Macc is getting them one step closer to CPA since they are able to reach the minimum credits.
@@jep05f Yes, but you can still reach the 150 credit hours with basic community college credits for much less money. The Macc is only really worth it if you did not major in accounting or still need the accounting specific credits for the CPA. Not to mention they are much easier if you want extra time during your 5th year to study and take the exam. Most states don't require 150 to sit, just to get the license.
Shane, could you tell us about ACCA as it is becoming more popular by the day? Thanks for what you do and keep up the good work.
Loved this interview
Glad you enjoyed it!
Shane is the 🐐
Wow so much information
They asked an accountant, an engineer, and a mathematician how much was 2 + 2.
The mathematician said "2+2 is 4, and I can prove it".
The engineer said "Well, 2+2 is anything between 3.9 and 4.2".
The accountant said "It depends. How much do you want 2+2 to equal?"
Funny if you think like that you're wrong 😂
I’m a junior in high school and just trying to explore my options regarding future careers. Accounting might appear boring to some, but for some reason I feel as if I would enjoy it? I hear a lot of risks of it being automated in the future which terrifies me because this is the only career with a decent salary that honestly appeals to me. I would consider computer science too, but some people have just been coding out of the WOMB and I would feel extremely late and far behind. I’m not entirely sure if I would be able to succeed in that field. I’ve just been feeling super lost lately and I’ve been having many sleepless nights just thinking of my future.
Same here. Every single day I think about what career I should go for. I initially was going to do Computer Science, but the information just doesn’t click for me so I’m trying to see other degrees and accounting seems kind of interesting
@@bdaman_2595 Hopefully we’re both able to find a career that we like soon. I wish you the best of luck!
Same I’m going to be a sophomore in high school and I initially thought I new what career I wanted but now I am so confused and scared just thinking about college and what to major in it’s all so overwhelming 😑😑
@@ggukiescave Thank you, and you too!
@@sofiag4377 I wish you the best of luck! Just try not to be so hard on yourself. It’s good you’re thinking about your future now.
Could you please explain Accounting: Internal Reporting, Control, and Auditing vs External Reporting, Control, and Auditing BSBA? Which one should I choose to pursue?
Great video !!
Thanks!
Learned a lot from watching your video!
Glad to hear it!
I majored in accounting as a default. I didn't do amazing in the hard sciences so engineer never really came up as an option. Probably should have done more planning to figure it out but I just figured graduating with a degree was much more important (and cheaper) than switching majors two or three times. I didn't get an accounting job as everyone wanted an internship/experience although I had a small amount of related experience. Almost no one is passionate about accounting (save a couple of my college professors). It's a stable job with a normal career path. Now, I'm looking more into financial planning as what to do next.
You are not alone. Accounting provides a strong foundation and is one of the best business concentration that is great for career pivots.
Omg love this content
Loved it! Question for Bill; can Benford's Law be used as an investment indicator?
Sorry not familiar with Benford law.
Sir, please make a video on MHA(masters in hospital administration) and tell about the scope in abroad.
I'm in my 30s about to enter the field. Thank you for the insights