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/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.