<p>According to you, accountants don't crunch numbers or do "any of that". Well that's news to me, but I guess it would suit you to be "right" rather than inform.</p>
<p>Scratch it. I guess that coming here in not exactly the best place to seek for advice. People come here for supplemental advice, but instead have to put up bickering among people who disagree with one another?</p>
<p>It's a good place, because as you've read already, the major consensus is ITS POINTLESS.</p>
<p>If "crunching numbers" means "math oriented", then accounting is NOT. My friend, considered a very good accountant, just asked me what "algebra" was yesterday. Not that he didn't learn it before, he just forgot the term and a lot of math. You don't have to be good at math (no geometry, no trigs, no finite elements, no linear algebra, no calculus, no probability (as far as I know for most)...etc) to succeed in accounting.</p>
<p>LOL
So anyone wanna tell me what accountants do? In my mind, they ask people about their finances, plug simple formulas, blah, blah, fill out the tax forms, and that's all that my ignorant self knows.</p>
<p>So how much is your very good accountant friend making?</p>
<p>He's making around 60k; since I took an accounting class just recently, I know a bit about the field. Based on what I know, my friend is pretty good. Like he's pretty clear in what accounts to debit and credit for different types of transactions; he's pretty organized and quick in doing most of the tasks in his company (including filing for tax purposes and month-end closing). He got several offers pretty quick after he moved to LA, despite his broken English (a bit weak in communication). One company's book was a total mess and he was hired to fix it (for 65K). He cleaned up a lot of it but 3 weeks later, he jumped to his current company. He's passed 2 sections in CPA and studying for the 3rd. Couple weeks ago, he just asked me what square root was (he forgot) because apparently there's a formula for his CPA exam (CPA exam does have a few formulas but that's one of them) that has it. In short, he's good at "accounting" the transactions and having the book all balanced at the end (which involves very basic stuff as far as math goes). But he's not good at solving math problems (even SAT level ones). You can s*uck in math and still be very successful in accounting.</p>