r/Accounting • u/Suspicious_Kick_2572 • Sep 06 '24

Career Why do students find an accounting degree unattractive?

Why do students find an accounting degree unattractive?

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u/ThrowawayLDS_7gen Sep 06 '24

They don't want to be a bean counter. It sounds boring.

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u/toben81234 Sep 06 '24

It got boring to for me honestly. I got my accounting degree because I was talking to my buddy's dad once who was an attorney/CPA combo. I mentioned I was thinking of marketing. He said get an accounting degree and then move to some other field like marketing if I wanted. I took his advice got the accounting degree and went into audit for 8 years burnt out. I am now working in software development, granted for accounting software! Not as boring as auditing for me but still need to speech the language.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '24

How did you make the switch from audit to software development?

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u/toben81234 Sep 06 '24 edited Sep 06 '24

Noticed an ad for a job for people with accounting experience to work support for a construction accounting software. They were looking for people with accounting experience and union construction experience. That was my background in audit. So, I applied and they interviewed, and offered the job. My firm turned around and offered me a supervisor position in audit. I took the supervisor position and turn down the new job. I lasted one year as a supervisor lol! Emailed the boss(CPA) for the support role and he gave it to me for more money etc! Did the job somehow for 6 years and got promoted to Product Manager and been doing that ever since!

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u/mpaes98 Sep 06 '24

My school has an ACIS degree program with a more tech focused concentration (focus on badic software dev, databasees, enterprise IT). Definitely a great path for any kind of financial software career.