Any accountants on tonight?
I'm thinking about going back to school to major in accounting and would like to hear your opinions on the profession.
I'm 24, will be going to an average university, graduating in 2 years. Mainly I want to know if accounting sucks or if it's "kinda cool".
>>17284285
I have a degree in psychology yet I work as an accountant because I'm good at math.
Does that answer your question?
>>17284303
Thanks for replying. This tells me that demand is high enough that they are hiring non-accounting majors. Is your job title accountant? Or are you a bookkeeper? Do you enjoy the work?
>>17284311
>demand is high enough that they are hiring non-accounting majors.
Hasn't seen it that way, good point.
>Is your job title accountant?
I live in a spanish-speaking country but my job title is auditor.
>Or are you a bookkeeper?
I've no idea what you mean by bookkeeper, but what I basically do is to review all the money movements made during the day and make sure nobody fucked anything up, in case they did I have to figure out what was it they fucked up, how to fix it and to let them know so we can prevent it from happening again.
>Do you enjoy the work?
Short answer: Yes.
>>17284351
I live in the US. Bookkeeping is very basic accounting, anything from what you're doing, to making invoices, to payroll--a lot of it is automated now.
>>17284372
Then I guess that's right, to be honest automatization of the proccess, from my point of view, sounds like bullshit but I live in a third-world shithole where most people suck at computers (I'm already better at managing the system than my boss) so maybe that's why.
