<p>Hello, I made a thread to share the different troublesome thoughts that had been drilling through my mind for the past few days. To lightly talk about my background, I am currently a freshman in a prestigious public college majoring in Accounting. Technically speaking it would be Pre-Accounting since applying to the business school is allowed during the first semester of sophomore standing. Back to the topic, I am really rebating whether I should change my major to Business Management or stay as an Accounting major. My main reason is the fact that I haven't performed too well on my first 2 Accounting courses I have taken this year. I have earned a B in Intro to Financial Accounting, and a B in Intro to Managerial Accounting, possibly a B- depending on my Final exam. However, considering that Accounting is my major course, obviously striving for the highest in Accounting should be a definite and should be superior than your overall grades including electives, core requirements, etc. Therefore, I feel that starting out with a 3.0 in Accounting might be too "lacking" and acknowledging that the more advanced accounting classes can become much more difficult. </p>
<p>At the same time I was also thinking to myself about the workforce in the future. Meaning, having a degree in which major will open more doors or will offer a more efficient and stable job. I sometimes feel that Business Management will not get me anywhere, reading from other posts. Sorry, I am just being very stubborn and naive, I do not even know what I'm saying. </p>
<p>I would appreciate it if anyone can offer some advices. If there are any questions please post them as I will try my best to answer them in a sufficient manner. Thank you so much.</p>
<p>If you graduate with an accounting degree expect starting salary to be $30-$40k. Good grades don’t matter anymore in accounting, it’s all about experience. If you don’t have experience, you will have a hard time getting hired. </p>
<p>An accountant who is certified with years of experience can expect a salary of $45-60k maybe more if you are lucky. Expect to shell out a lot of money to obtain 150 hrs credit and for the CPA preparation course.</p>
<p>Accounting is dead -like the typewriter business. It is better to become a teacher, firefighter, or policeman than an accountant. The problem with accounting is that there is no labor union (The AICPA board SUCKS). And there are tons of staffing firms pushing your wage down. When the economy was growing wages for accounting fell and when the economy is shrinking wages fell, What up with that? Essentially you are your own self-contractor in accounting. But accountants have been historically stupid (maybe because most are women) to demand better wages.</p>
<p>The difficulty should not trouble you, it’s not like you’re majoring in physics. Your GPA, on the other hand, must be strong. You obviously take your major seriously since you capitalize it in spite of it not being a proper noun, but you must achieve a 3.6 or better GPA to consider yourself a success in life.</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses, but nobody have seem to answer my question yet. Considering my situation, is it arguable to stay as an Accounting major or switch to Business Management. Lastly, what can one do with a Business Management degree? I’m assuming, working at a bank?</p>
<p>Enough with capitalizing the improper nouns. The only time you capitalize any of these words is when they’re the first word in a sentence, or on a list.</p>
<p>Actually it’s very relevant. Capitalizing these improper nouns show that you value them so much that you’ll violate grammatical rules to express your respect for them. So it looks like you like both majors, but are having a tough time deciding. If you want to know what you can “do” with a management degree that you can’t “do” with an English* degree, the answer is nothing. But according to people here, undergraduate business majors are all smart and it takes a strong GPA to get into an undergraduate business school, which leads to better recruiting of these geniuses.</p>
<p>*should be capitalized, it refers to a country, thus it’s a proper noun</p>
<p>Also, you probably shouldn’t major in either of them. There are better things to major in.</p>
<p>I’m out of accounting and onto something else, but I still browse this forum and try let other people know about my experience because there are so many recruiters trying to lure people in accounting without telling them the facts.</p>
<p>@w
no i don’t have my cpa.
[the opportunity cost of studying is greater than the benefit of getting licensed]</p>
<p>Facts: The starting salary my son’s friend (spring 09 grad) got was $57,000, with a signing bonus of 10%, and they are paying for the course to help him pass the CPA. The only experience he had was the 8 week internship he did the prior spring (08).</p>
<p>My next door neighbor, who is a partner at a Big 4, makes in the high 6 figures and is tearing down the house he bought 3 years ago at $575,000 (Texas $'s which go much farther than W/E coasts) to build a new construction. I think he’s making enough to support his family.</p>
<p>ag54, would you happen to know your son’s friend’s college statistics? (GPA, extra curricular, etc) that’s if you wouldn’t mind sharing. Thanks.</p>
<p>I know he had above a 3.5, was active in his fraternity, held offices, did some internships during summers. He probably had more, but those are all I know about. He is a very outgoing guy and has good connections.</p>
<p>So far, A principles students are A/B intermediate accounting students.
B students are usually B/C intermediate accounting students.
C students… are doing just as bad in intermediate accounting 2.</p>
<p>I’d say go for something you’re good at. Biz management seems like a cop out.</p>
<p>Its the truth! Men tend to bargain more for their wages.
But there is nothing much to bargain for in accounting since there is a HUGE surplus of accountants these days.</p>
<p>That dude is jealous of his sister and is a loser. Losers give the worst advice of anyone because all that they know how to do is lose.</p>
<p>…and as if being a $35k a year loser accountant is better than being a loser unemployed engineer? A loser is a loser no matter what…</p>
<p>Lol, this is what he said after getting called a failure:</p>
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<p>LOL</p>
<p>…and then if you go to around page 5 of the thread, he’s backpedaling furiously, failing in his argument as he did in life. Which is strange, because he’s basically right, he just doesn’t get that all career fields are terrible, and has an inferiority complex.</p>