<p>So this is my current situation: I've recently graduated from UCLA with an........ English Major. I first started off in Economics, got a bit too carried away with the weed and partying, changed my major to Sociology, then to English. During my last two years of college all my friends and acquaintances would ask me what I was planning to do with my major, and I mostly just shrugged it off until I found out just how limited my career options are with this major.</p>
<p>Recently I got an admin. job at a big accounting firm, and, in all honesty, it makes me a feel kind of small. Most of my co-workers in the admin. department don't have college degrees and I'm here working as an assistant to many people around my age with accounting degrees. And I constantly get to watch young guys making moves and more money! So I've decided to make use of my company's policy of paying for my tuition and go back to school after a summer and soon to be fall off.</p>
<p>Since I have an in at this accounting firm I was thinking about going back as an Accounting or Finance major, and I was hoping for some advice from anyone who's gone down this similar path--most specifically what the transfer process is like.</p>
<p>(Sigh), Please read the sticky thread found on the top of this forum entitled,"Everything you wanted to know or should know about accounting." It should answer most of your questions.</p>
<p>Calc is NOT required by the State Boards of Accounting. Thus, it isn't a requirement in all accounting programs. Only some schools require it. </p>
<p>Frankly, as a tax lawyer and someone who has worked in the accounting field for over 30 years, I have NEVER had to use any calculus. Now statistics is another story.</p>
<p>As far as stats goes, do you mean elementary stuff like mean, median, range..etc? One of my best friends and two of my cousins are accountants and they never mention they use stats.</p>
<p>When you audit documents, it is far wiser to select enough random documents as to assure a 99% compliance rate. Thus, you need to be able to generate random numbers and need to know how many ducuments to examine in order to assure that sample represents 99% of documents.</p>
<p>Statisics also are useful in computing useful lives and expected lifetime earnings for litigation and for pension work. Calculus, however, never has any applicability to my work.....EVER</p>
<p>The funny thing about that taxguy, is that while some schools don't require you to take calc for accounting, my school(Florida) requires you to take not only Calc I, but Calc II for accounting majors! Given, it is Business Calc I and II, but still a bit fishy in my opinion when accounting is more of a system, not calc. based. I suppose it could be another method of weed-out or something. </p>
<p>And don't let football scare you about business calc if you go through with your plan, it's not that bad at all.</p>
<p>Jason, I actually took a year of calculus. Thus, I somewhat understand what is taught. However, I can't see any applicability for it in accounting. I don't know why schools require it other than as an additional attempt at weeding out kids.</p>
<p>Thanks taxguy for the info. I can relate somewhat to the audit sampling as part of my work involves coming up a sampling plan that stays within budget but allows us to collect environmental data that is representative at the same time. It can be tricky.</p>
<p>The funny thing is that, as a Finance major, I only have to take Calc I, and the Accountants have to take I/II. Isn't that a little backwards? lol</p>