<p>At the top schools relatively few major in accting. Finance is the way to go.</p>
<p>The average for accting BS students at Wisconsin was $48,000 excluding any bonuses. The average for finance analysts was nearly $51,000. That's for mostly midwest jobs with a lower COL than the coasts--and slightly lower salaries.</p>
<p>I have a 3.7 at a Top 20 USNews accounting school and I can tell you that I spent endless hours studying for intermediate accounting courses. And UBVinny you dumb little child, I'm making 24 an hour as an intern with overtime for Big Four, so I'm not complaining. Vinny you have no knowledge in anything stop talking.</p>
<p>website looks fake to me. get some legit material.</p>
<p>if you spent hours then how come I barely studied and still got a A-. i didnt even try, the class was to easy.</p>
<p>Just read Taxguy's previous posts, hes the only one that knows what hes talking about besides me. Mr Payne, average grades in intermediate accounting are damn low. It's definetly a weedout major after they reach the junior level. It would be nice if you engineering majors, who think you are smarter than everyone else, be a little more open minded to the nature of the accounting major. I don't mind if u want to call other business majors easy, because they are. I'm taking upper level finance courses as a minor and they are a joke compared to accounting. The other business majors like marketing and management are obvious jokes.</p>
<p>Because you didn't take intermediate I + II. I'm not talking about FINANCIAL Accounting for sophomores. And again, you show your ignorance once again BLS.GOV FAKE? haha.</p>
<p>some business majors grow up and become entrepreneurs. But I guess you ahve already heard of the likes of Dell, Gates, and Buffett.</p>
<p>Money is what u make of it. A person with no education can theoretically make millions, a guy with a Ph.D. from Harvard can be making the same as a guy with a HS diploma.</p>
<p>Statistically it is not always the case, but there are always outliers.</p>
<p>Intermediate Acct, is considered to be a beast of a course. I can assure you that accounting is by no means an "easy" major. And it is clearly the hardest of the business discipline. As a matter of fact, most kids struggle in Financial and Managerial Acct. Financial Accounting at my school had one of the highest failure rates.</p>
<p>um yes I did, the book so kindly said as its title</p>
<p>intermediate accounting, my school does not have lower level accounting classes.</p>
<p>Mr. Payne notes,"they are probably near a 140+ IQ and they put in serious time"</p>
<p>Respnse: I don't know if I have a 140 IQ,but I did pass the CPA in one shot and bacame a best selling author.</p>
<p>UB vinny if you really took it like you said, you would already know that the average GPA in that class blows. Of course if thats not the case then the course obviously isn't intermediate accounting or the program is pathetic at your school. I did say I'm taking it at a top 20 accounting school after all.</p>
<p>what both Mr. Payne and UB-Vinny fail to realize is that we aren't talking about average business EVER on CollegeConfidential. We're not talking about accountants who make 30k out in the middle of nowhere. We're not talking about people who work at a commercial bank and make 35k. </p>
<p>We're talking about Investment Bankers who make millions at higher level, about Big4 Accounting Firm Partners who make more than most C.E.O.'s, and other highly paid business jobs.</p>
<p>Also UB-Vinny what you need to realize is that in one good year, a high-level investment banker or venture capitalist will make what an engineer makes in 25 years.</p>
<p>The smartest scientists and engineers around leave engineering behind to work for investment banks as quants. Mind you the engineers who choose to go to work in Investment banking aren't 3.0s who couldn't find jobs elsewhere, theyre usually 3.8s+ from top schools who could have gotten a job anywhere they wanted in engineering but ultimately chose business.</p>
<p>and if the current infrastructure falls out what good is a business man. he is worthless.<br>
while the engineer is the most critical person.</p>
<p>the reason so many people do bad in business is because you guys are idiots. im sorry, but its true.</p>
<p>But you're on here calling people names? Grow up man! Seriously. </p>
<p>Big four accounting firms are where you want to be - they start out over 50K + signing bonus, and if you have your Masters, you can expect 55K + signing bonus. The highest signing bonus at my school last year was $10,000 and the lowest was $1,000. And like people have said, even non big four accounting firms, like Grant Thornton, pay pretty much the same.</p>
<p>current infrastructure fall out? Are you saying business will die and sales men will perish? That will happen the day i can fly after drinking my redbull</p>
<p>what use is a business man if money cant be transfered or he/she cant get to work.</p>
<p>you guys keep talking about pay, who cares im happy with $60k a year thats a **** load of money, compared to what my family lives on now,</p>
<p>Yes, I make less than $10/hr working part-time right now during school; so, I'd be content with 30K per year, quite honestly.
Money isn't everything.
I actually enjoy accounting.</p>
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Mr. Payne notes,"they are probably near a 140+ IQ and they put in serious time"</p>
<p>Respnse: I don't know if I have a 140 IQ,but I did pass the CPA in one shot and bacame a best selling author.
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You don't have a 140 IQ. :)</p>