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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
- Ability to work with computers
- Independence
- Skill with numbers
- Tendency toward analytical thinking
- Capacity for precision,
detail, order, patience, integrity, thoroughness
- Proficiency in
written and oral communication
Ability to:
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Organize, analyze, or interpret
numerical data
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Operate/use information derived from computers
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Explain
complex financial data to others
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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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Phone: 610-796-8225
Fax: 610-790-2871
Hours:
Monday
12:00 - 8:00 p.m.;
Tuesday thru Friday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.;
Additional evening
hours by appointment*
*Graduate and Continuing Studies students
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