What to Do with Accounting Degree

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There are lot of things you can do with an accounting degree, with multiple career paths in public accounting and private industry. You could even start your own business or break into finance.

In this video, I focus on jobs you can get right out of college with an accounting degree.

If you go into public accounting, you can work in audit, tax, or consulting. If you work for a smaller public accounting firm, you might end up doing a mix of these activities.

If you go into private industry, you'll do the accounting for a single firm (as opposed to public accounting, where you'll have multiple clients) like Apple or Walmart (or for a nonprofit or government agency). Within private industry there are several paths: you could start as a staff accountant, a cost accountant, or an internal auditor.

You could also start your own accounting firm, or use your accounting degree to get a job in finance. An accounting degree would be helpful for getting a job in investment banking or for becoming a financial analyst, a credit analyst, or a budget analyst.

You could also work in accounts receivable or accounts payable or become an accounting clerk, but those jobs don't typically require an accounting degree (you'd likely be overqualified).

If you want to get into forensic accounting, you might consider starting out as an internal auditor.

0:00 Introduction
0:16 Public Accounting Jobs
1:56 Private Industry Jobs
3:31 Finance Jobs
4:00 Honorable mentions

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You always have the relevant information I seek as as a near Hon. BCom-Acct. graduate. Thanks for giving us the answers that we don't ask enough in class.

Tyler-qhjm
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I hope you read my comment. I just wanted to say that you helped me a lot through college and helped do better on my accounting exams. You’re simply better than all of the accounting professors I had in college. I appreciate you!

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Started off as an Auditor for the feds now I'm an Accountant. It has served me well!!!

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Love your videos! They’re the best! I work at the Ark Encounter in college and I love my job SO MUCH! haha I’m graduating soon and am nervous I wont love my job as much!!! We will see what God will do with my life.

ariah
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My man used "an accounting degree" and "wonderful and fulfilling career" in the same sentence.

naveedali
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Wow! That was pretty straightforward! Thanks for sharing your expertise on the field, sir! 👍

djgulston
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Thank you for this video. I currently am thinking about what to do with my degree because I only have a year and a half of accounting experience as an intern but am currently working at a job that’s not related to accounting. However, my job does have tuition reimbursement so I’m working on going back to school to get the MAcc and praying I get an accounting job by improving my grades in graduate school.

iamwhatieat
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Dear Professor, thank you for a great video! I understand that I build my path very well and get inspired to continue it and accelerate it! Thanks again! Best YouTube channel ever!

musicreboost
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I started in transaction services with my degree. best choice for me

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Hi Edspira ! Tkanks for my fantastic vídeo ! Your videos is very important for account from us and Al the world! Tks

antoniobarbosapereira
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Can you do careers for an Economics degree, please? I am struggling to choose between studying accounting or economics

kokolam
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I'm a part qualified ACCA and I don't have a degree. So my question is, do I need to have a degree inorder to get a well paying job or should i just focus on completing my qualification?

aymanrifzan
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For majoring in accounting should I go to Georgetown university? Because it doesn't provide topics such as managerial/cost accounting and intermediate financial accounting in its curriculum and so it doesn't provide a well rounded accounting education.

Or should I instead go to Washington university in st loius for accounting? But then comes the prestige factor of Georgetown. Please guide me Sir.

Moreover, you said that finance has long working hours which burn us out but then you also say that accountants are leaving accounting for finance roles because how low working hours. This is very confusing.

zoyal
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CPA here who went from Public Accounting (Tax) > Investment Banking > Corporate Development (M&A

matthaios
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Hi Edspira. I have an accounting bachelor’s degree and a master’s in business analytics. Currently, I am a data engineer, but I would like to get back into a more accounting-based role. I would also like to use my knowledge of data and statistics. Are there any jobs you recommend that fulfill these goals?

franklinrichfield
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That's interesting. In the UK, working in practice is more poorly paid than working in industry. I'm on £5k more and I'm pretty junior.

bordershader
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And unless you know somebody, you can still end up in a dead end job earning barely above McDonald's wages even with a CPA and a dozen years of experience... ah yes, government work.

Wish...I would have chosen a different degree.

tenatra
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do you like working 70 hours a week while earning a little bit more than minimum wage and spending the rest of the time keeping up with the endless ifrs/Gaap adjustments? if yes then accounting is for you, but if you wish to live a decent life and have work life balance it is defiantly not for you. If I go back I would for sure not go with accounting. Accountants and auditors are criminally underpaid for the hours they put in, not to mention that you have to keep studying for the rest of your life making your free hours also work hours. If any of you college kids about to study accounting, DO NOT DO IT unless you enjoy being a corporate wage slave working the normal hours of two jobs and receiving the salary of one job, you have been warned.

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