The accounting major provides the opportunity to develop professional skills that enable the student to enter the field of management accounting or public accounting. Accounting is a dynamic profession that provides support for management decision-making and offers a variety of important services to clients. Ultimate professional certification as a Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and/or Certified Public Accountant (CPA) is a desirable goal.

Skills

• Organize, analyze, or interpret numerical data
• Operate/use information derived from computers
• Explain complex financial data to others
• Lead, supervise, and direct others

Values

• Prestige-driven
• Logical and linear thinking
• Patience
• Precision
• Detail-oriented
• Objectivity
• Imagination
• Skill and capacity to work with numbers

Leisure Activities

• Working or volunteering in tax preparation
• Maintaining a checkbook
• Solving analytical problems
• Working in a high school or college accounting department
• Attending accounting-related lectures
• Acting as a treasurer for an organization
• Joining a financial advisory board

Strategies

• Joining a professional organization
• Acting as a treasurer for an organization
• Get an internship with a large accounting firm
• Enhance computer skills
• Strengthen communication skills
• Look into certification test and process
• Attend conventions and lectures to network with accountants
• Help others prepare taxes to get experience
  

Updated: April 22, 2008

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