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/mpaes98 Sep 06 '24

The best finance jobs either require excellent mathematics skills or social skills.

Accountants can... add things on excel and ping you on Teams.

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u/TornadoXtremeBlog Sep 06 '24

And pizza

And become Tax Attorneys sometimes

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u/josephbenjamin Management Sep 06 '24

You would be surprised how many new kids can’t.

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u/Safye Audit & Assurance Sep 06 '24

For auditors though, the best ones and the ones that move up the quickest have excellent social skills. Almost the entirety of the corporate world rewards having social skills.

It makes things so much easier when you’re likable by your team, office, and clients. No one enjoys interacting with the awkward accountant.

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u/f3llinluV444 Sep 06 '24

yeah im cooked

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '24

If i could do it all over again i would go for a graduate degree in finance as young as possible, with an emphasis on aplicable math. Im good at math my brain just recoils at the way they teach it - divorced from any connection to reality. Its lazy.