<p>“If you believe it, you forgot to include Financial Planner (#15): 122.8.”</p>
<p>Post 92 was a response to the last sentence of post 91. The comparison was clearly stated in terms of Engineer vs Accountant. If others are going to be added then lets add an Actuary as well who ranks at 22 with a 116.9 IQ. </p>
<p>According to Uncyclopedia:</p>
<p>Engineers and Actuaries</p>
<p>It is a common fact that Engineers and Actuaries have been at war for many years. It is unclear which party is currently winning the war. It is also unclear why the war was started in the first place, and what they are fighting about. Nevertheless, the Actuaries still continue to baffle engineers with crazy mathematical proofs to the 285’th decimal point (the main weapon of the Actuary). In defense, Engineers just round the numbers provided by the Actuaries to the nearest million. The duration of this war has been in dispute by both sides - Actuaries insist it started a couple of thousand years and 23.387223786261 seconds ago, while engineers insists it started a 1000 years ago.</p>
<p>Also, Engineers are in general much better looking than Actuaries. This is not math or stats related, so Actuaries don’t mind. </p>
<p>Actuaries and Accountants:</p>
<p>Actuaries are smarter than accountants. It is a simple fact (Just ask any Actuary). There are more accountants on corporate boards and senior management positions than actuaries…due to the existence of infinite many accountants but only a limited number of actuaries…yet it is commonly accepted that the actuaries on the boards are the real driving force. Actuaries are extremely smart. Accountants are not. Hundreds of thousands of new accountants go into the work place every year looking for jobs. This creates a huge supply for a much slower growing demand, forcing Accountants wages down into the dirt where they belong. Actuaries make it so hard to become an Actuary that the demand for Actuaries overwhelmingly exceeds the supply pushing up their wages into the heavens where they belong. A newly qualified accountant earns less than $30 000 per year where a newly qualified Actuary earns over $100 000 a year, hence why actuaries are at least 3 times better than accountants. This annoys accountants, who point out the difference between God and an Actuary is that God doesn’t think He is an actuary.</p>
<p>The guy took people’s salaries, assumed that higher salary directly correlated to a higher IQ, and made an IQ chart based off of that. The fact that you posted that as a part of your argument is kind of proving these guys right. According to that logic, since George Bush is a millionare and Albert Einstein was not, Bush is way smarter than Einstein.</p>
<p>“Nonetheless, the following table estimates average IQ scores by occupation solely on the basis of the Career Cast mid-level income figures. The median salary (of a paralegal assistant) is taken to correspond to an IQ of 100. One standard deviation is assumed to be 15 IQ points:”</p>
<p>That is the most f’ed up misuse of statistics I have ever seen, and the fact that you bought it so quickly is kind of disturbing. So what happened? You typed in “accountants engineers IQ” to google and that’s the only thing that popped up? Dude, you might want to take a vacation for a few weeks before coming back here. You should be embarrassed. Don’t ever post that kind of garbage in here.</p>
<p>Wow. At first I thought you were just indulging in a little ■■■■■■■■, but you clearly have some deep-seated issues. I recommend seeking professional help before you get fired for fighting an accountant in the break room.</p>
<p>I thought most people had the stupid major dick-waving beaten out them by their first finals, guess not.</p>
<p>I feel bad for people who do not have enough money to go to school and they have to become dishwashers, cashiers, waiters… if only they had enough money to become a surgeon… their IQs would be 234.1 =(</p>
<p>“Trying to extrapolate IQ from salary is idiotic.”</p>
<p>I agree. What would be more interesting is stats on suicide rates in relation to occupations. </p>
<p>It seems that many people online who speak about accounting in school or on the job not only think it’s boring but often say they want to shoot themselves in the face. One guy I read mentioned that he dreaded his 9 to 5 accounting job so much he wanted to hurl himself out the window but was only on the 1st floor.</p>
<p>Actually, lawyers have a very high suicide rate. Dentists have a h igh rate of disability. So what. Do what you like and what you are good at. Enough already guys.</p>
<p>I only know I have opportunities to try out everything, and it all looks the same to me. I had never considered accounting, as a new high school graduate out of high school. My maths and science are not too fantastic, either.</p>
<p>In addition, I am the sort of person who wishes to contribute as much to society as i can. I volunteer in various non-profits before I enter college, and I am involved in various academic and social clubs and societies, too.</p>
<p>So I just look around and see what people want, because everything looks the same to me, and I recognize that I can do something for the greater good of society.</p>
<p>I note that there are a lot of businesses in my town of 5 million people, and every corner there is always a business opportunity - from the electricity, landscape gardening to even politics. All need some form of book-keeping and accounting. So I thought, maybe accounting would be a good way to contribute socially. Perhaps I can even earn a decent living from doing something socially worthwhile, that is often overlooked by other glamorous careers (like law, medicine, investment banking, etc).</p>
<p>No matter how hard it is, I do my best to persevere through the accounting courses, because through balancing accounts and making adjustments, I believe I will get the accounting concepts needed for the public’s knowledge of financial information, and businesses’ internal needs.</p>
<p>i’m not sure if anyone has answered your question because i was too lazy to read all 8 pages. for me accounting became interesting early on. the reason why it became interesting to me is because i love the idea of business. I like the way how you can warp/mold a company by having important financial information. </p>
<p>This isn’t exactly how accounting is taught in class, but at my previous place of employment i was doing more book-keeping work. by recording the information, i was able to extract important financial information. then with that information i was able to track costs. this is where your cost accounting or managerial class comes into hand. i worked for a small family owned manufacturing business. i was able to figure out how much items cost and how much we were losing due to poor operational/manufacturing methods. I was not expert at cost accounting, but with the basics i was able to explain the cost of an item was much more than we had assumed.</p>
<p>To answer the original question, in my opinion accounting never gets interesting. At the end of the day, everyone (the exec suite, marketing, operations, credit, sales, etc etc) in the business enterprise is actually doing business. As an accountant, you essentially live in the past and record/report/allegedly audit transactions that have already happened.</p>
<p>You watch people do business. That’s why it’ll never get interesting.</p>
<p>Go for something that is interesting to you and something you will enjoy. I know it’s cliche but it’s serious advice.</p>
<p>Accounting blows. I took it in college once and failed it and then tried it again this semester and dropped out because I had a 17 in the first 4 weeks (yes, out of 100).</p>
<p>I believe, if Accounting doesn’t come to you instantly or fairly easy, don’t do it.</p>
<p>To be honest with you, it all depends on what you actually enjoy and are good at. I’m a business major, after first majoring in mechanical engineering lol. I love working on cars, but decided I’m better at business and finance. I’m in a financial accounting course, very introductory, but I find it interesting to sit there and watch others around me take forever to journalize entries. It’s a very boring concept for most people. On the other hand, if you are naturally good at and interested in finances, it’s much easier to do. It won’t get more interesting if you don’t like working with money or if you don’t like a lot of b.s. to be honest. If you find it that boring, i’d suggest looking at a different major. I have to admit though, all I heard from your previous posts are excuses (although I didn’t read them all). I’m a business major, married with an 8 month old daughter, honors program, student government, president and treasurer of another organization and I have no problem balancing it all and keeping a 3.8gpa. If you aren’t willing to work your a** off, there’s no point in going to school. There are so many business majors out there, you’ve gotta be willing to go above and beyond. It’s the difference between a 30-40,000 dollar job out of college and a six-figure salary.</p>