My advice for accountants: Get your 150 credits finished

<p>I don’t know enough about Operations Management to categorically say it is a waste of time. However, my visceral reaction is that Dawgie maybe right unless your goal is to be a director of a factory. However, manufacturing isn’t that big here in the US.</p>

<p>This is very helpful information, taxguy. Also, I have been interviewing with firms and most of them require you have the 150 credit hours before you being employment. I interviewed with kpmg and they don’t require the cpa license when you being employment, but they do require the 150 credit hours. Also, the nice thing about some firms is they give you a bonus if you pass the cpa exam your first year of employment. Kpmg and Deloitte pays you a $5000 bonus the first year if you pass your cpa exam.</p>

<p>Manufacturing is definitely not where i want to be. Do you guys suggest i just drop the double major completely, since I was planning on going to grad school for my Macc anyway? I don’t want to waste more time here than necessary.</p>

<p>Dawgie, you would suggest english or philosophy?? I could understand the english, but any particular reason behind the philosophy one?</p>

<p>English teaches you to write clearly and cohesively. Philosophy also covers this plus is one of the best majors for teaching critical thinking and critical reading. In fact, philosophy is one of the best majors for honing reading and writing skills around in my opinion. It is,however, a much harder major than folks realize. The reading is very dense stuff.</p>

<p>I heard philosophy majors do fantastic on the LSATs. They do better than “Legal Studies” majors or even Criminal Justice and Accounting majors (although accountants do pretty well too).</p>

<p>Resonse to Post #22</p>

<p>Rubish! Nursing majors get higher sign on bonuses, have higher average salaries, better job stability than accountants. (RN’s $50-70K, compared with $30-45k BBA in accounting)
Compared to accounting, nursing only takes two years (in community college). After that, they can take the NCLEX (which has about a 80-90%) pass rate. Accounting takes at least 5 years to complete to be eligible to sit for the CPA exam. (pass rate of less than 50%). Not to mention the one year to two year requirement working under a CPA before you are licensed. Even if you are a CPA, your salary will probably range between ($45k-80k) and those that are making $70k and over usually have 5-10 years of experience. </p>

<p>So for accounting, you are looking at about 6 years to get licensed plus an additional 5-10 years to make a salary of $70-80k.</p>

<p>If you don’t get licensed in accounting, then expect a salary of $30-45k. The floor for nursing in comparison is around $45k.</p>

<p>Wiki: LSAT, Philosophy and Math ranked the highest. Along with econ and other quantitative majors. It makes sense.</p>

<p>Johhny vue, nurses may start off well,but usually cap out. Accountants can make significant six figure incomes that is generally unhead of in nursing.</p>

<p>Moreover, who wants nursing? If you think it is a better profession than accouinting, go for it.</p>

<p>Thanks for promoting Accounting so much, Taxguy.</p>

<p>You are really making our (Accounting majors) lives easier… </p>

<p>(sarcasm)</p>

<p>Pretty soon $35k will be the norm for Accountants with licenses.</p>

<p>Accountants don’t need to empty anybody’s bedpans, unless that’s how they get off or whatever. </p>

<p><----not judgmental</p>

<p>BTW no need to explain that orderlies empty bedpans blah blah blah. There are certainly more bodily fluids and odors involved with nursing…</p>

<p>Mustangdude, I have said it before and will say it again, Although I think accounting offers a good profesional track, it isn’t for everyone! You really need to be a “special kind of cat” and must be able to enjoy that type of work. If not, they will not make a good living from it and will probably not stay in the field. However, the same can be said of nursing, medicine, law etc.</p>

<p>Moreover, this thread has gotten off track. It was started to suggest that anyone who does major in accounting should get their 150 credits before taking a job.</p>

<p>Johnny Vue:</p>

<p>The comment about job stability is untrue. The market for nurses right now is extremely saturated, and in 10 years an accountant will make more than a nurse, 15 years extremely more.</p>

<p>Johnny Vue’s comment about accounting salary is based on his market, which probably has a lower cost of living. salaries are ALWAYS relative to where you decide to live. (ie: a $40,000 job in TX could be a better offer than a $45,000 job in NYC, all else equal).</p>

<p>by the way, taxguy’s “who wants nursing?” comment takes away some of his credibility. unless he was joking, he sounded rather ignorant about the nursing profession.</p>

<p>Oversaturation of nurses? More like oversaturation of accountants!! </p>

<p>When have you hear a nurse get laid off. It rarely happens since hospitals can pass the cost to insurance companies and to the government. Soon, everyone will have health insurance under OBAMA. Talk about job security! Best thing about nursing is they rarely get sued!</p>

<p>Accountants on the other hand are akin to “financial maids,” whose duty is to keep a company’s books clean and in order. If you want to pay $100k+ for education and $2,000 on top of that for Beckers CPA review to become a maid, then fine! (auditors are maid supervisors, btw) Or you can save 10 years of your life, pay $15k for the nursing program at a local community college, pass the exam, bank in $30K+ ‘cash’ for 10 years plus interest, compounded, enjoy job stability due to an aging population…</p>

<p>gobluecpa, I am NOT in any way knocking nursing. If it was perceived as such, let me apologize now. It is just that folks who woiuld consider fields such as accounting would usually NOT consider a field akin to nursing and vice versa.</p>

<p>Nursing and accounting suck.</p>

<p>^ i would not say that nursing or accounting sucks. Both career fields can be lucrative. Both jobs are in demand and there will always be some kind of job freezes because of the economy and demand for jobs. My M worked in the nursing field for over a decade as a staff nurse and made well over six figures. My Uncle worked at Fidelity as an accountant and has done well. </p>

<p>To each his own i guess</p>

<p>Bottom line from this thread and based on multiple other posts - Johnny Vue has no clue what he is talking about, or is a ■■■■■. His useless posts and statistics are not even worth responding to, and should not be taken seriously by anyone reading this board looking for useful information.</p>

<p>lol @ “financial maids” by Johhny Vue. </p>

<p>for crying out loud, you can call me a financial janitor if you pay me $100,000+ with benefits. i would sweep, mop, rinse, and be very happy to keep the books clean for ya.</p>