<p>Sorry if it seems like a sort of unintelligent question but I honestly don't know. I'm just starting the whole college process although a have a few more years in high school. Anyway, I've heard that people graduating with business majors are having trouble finding work because they are limited in what they are capable of doing due to lack of credentials. Is that true? Again, I apologize if this is a silly question.</p>
<p>Everybody is having difficulty finding jobs. The country is in the worst recession since the Great Depression. The unemployment rate is the highest it’s been in 50+ years. Some of it has to do with certain degrees (business degrees are more common than many other types of degrees), but most of it is due to poor economic conditions in the country.</p>
<p>Hopefully within 6 years, by the time you graduate from college, the recession will be long gone. You have to get a degree in something that you are happy with, though.</p>
<p>The need for accountants and accounting will always be there in the future, if that is something you are interested in.</p>
<p>Yes, accounting is a strong major. Arguably the strongest in most undergrad business schools.</p>
<p>It’s all relative. Compared to liberal arts and other business majors it is the strongest. Compared to engineering and natural sciences it looks pretty weak.</p>
<p>Alright, and is accounting part of the business major or an entirely separate one?</p>
<p>Accounting is a business concentration. I don’t know what you mean by “separate”</p>
<p>“Separate” as in are accounting and business two different majors</p>
<p>^^in some schools it is a BBA degree and at others it is a BS degree.</p>
<p>Ah alright, thank you!</p>
<p>There generally is no such thing as a ‘business’ major per se. You can get a degree from the college of business while majoring in Accounting, Finance, MIS, Risk Management, Real Estate, Marketing. All of these are majors at most business schools.</p>
<p>My Economics degree was from a business school.</p>
<p>My school offers a major in “General Business”. So yeah, you can get a degree in Business.</p>
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At Ross, your major is Business Administration - they don’t offer Accounting/Finance/etc. as majors. However, you’re required to take at least 9 credits in one of those specific classes. And when you graduate, you graduate with a Bachelors in Business Administration.</p>
<p>Accounting at most colleges is a relatively hard degree to get . When you receive that degree you will know that you earned it .What I felt was that when you get out into the business world you will really not be respected for what you have earned. In theory you are a “professional” like a doctor or a lawyer(I earned a CPA). However, you are not treated like a lawyer and definately not like a doctor.For the most part you are not paid like them either.(unless you make partner in a top tier firm). The key here is also WHY DO THEY ALWAYS NEED ACCOUNTANTS? Things are not always expanding that much. What I saw was that they always need accountants because the turnover was so high! Many people left the “profession” after putting in all that time because on a day to day basis it was JUST NOT PALATABLE(boring,screaming bosses,long hours,etc)</p>
<p>^^Where does your experience come from?</p>
<p>The bosses that “scream” get fired so the company can avoid lawsuits.</p>
<p>CPAs are at the top of a lot of businesses. I think the turnover is high because it is a good gateway to corporate finance and consulting. </p>
<p>Accounting is to permanent marker as corp fiance/consulting/law etc is to LCD</p>
<p>LOL</p>
<p>No one should fool themselves into thinking accountants should have the respect of medical doctors. That said, remember there are still plenty of jerks who treat their doctors and nurses like crap and do nothing but try to find fault with them in order to sue. As an accountant, at least you aren’t going to deal with anybody’s bodily fluids(unless you want to, after hours). You also don’t have to go through 4 years of arduous medical school and 3+ of residency and whatever training you need to become a specialist. </p>
<p>With respect to lawyers, laymen are of course going to not give proper weight with CPA’s vs the average lawyer from Cooley(the McDonald’s of Law Schools). Your girlfriend’s grandma will probably think you do what the guys at H&R Block do, or sit around with a green eyeshade on punching away at a calculator all day. Oh well. If you are upset that your boss who is also a CPA doesn’t treat you like you are anything special, well, that’s pretty much par for the course in life. Go be a Navy SEAL, see if your platoon commander who is also a Navy SEAL is astonished by the fact that you are one too. </p>
<p>The truth is that the majority of lawyers aren’t living life like Tom Cruise in The Firm. They’ve got 200k in debt and are making about as much as the average monkey slaving away as a Big Four staff associate. People in the know realize that, just like we know to laugh at someone who is a professor at the University of Phoenix. Sure, some do end up pulling 200k at Wachtell in their first year out of law school. Some idiots spend all their money on Powerball tickets and pull in 200 million. That doesn’t mean you should put all your tuition money into lottery tickets instead.</p>
<p>I do not know whether the information here is true , but take a look:</p>
<p>[7-jobs-companies-are-desperate-to-fill:</a> Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance](<a href=“http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/110533/7-jobs-companies-are-desperate-to-fill]7-jobs-companies-are-desperate-to-fill:”>http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/110533/7-jobs-companies-are-desperate-to-fill)</p>
<p>Posted by Jonahrubin, “Your girlfriend’s grandma will probably think you do what the guys at H&R Block do…”</p>
<p>Why do you guys look down upon H&R Block people?</p>
<p>Because it’s a mindless job that is being shipped overseas?</p>