can accounting be a lucrative career? - College Confidential


» CC HOME	» FORUM HOME

		College Confidential > College Admissions and Search > College Majors > Business Major
can accounting be a lucrative career?

Mark Forums Read

Welcome to College Confidential, the leading college-bound community on the Web!

Here you'll find hundreds of pages of articles about choosing a college, getting into the college you want, how to pay for it, and much more. You'll also find the Web's busiest discussion community related to college admissions, and our College Visits section!

You are currently viewing the site as a guest.
Registration is simple and easy, and provides full site access.

Join our FREE community:

Post and reply to topics
Talk privately with other members
Participate in polls
View less ads
Remove this welcome message

Discussion Menu

»Discussion Home
»Help & Rules
»Latest Posts
»NEW! College Visits
»NEW! Stats Profiles

Top Forums

»College Search
»College Admissions
»Financial Aid
»SAT/ACT
»Parents
»Colleges
»Ivy League

Main CC Site

»College Confidential
»College Search
»College Admissions
»Paying for College

Sponsors

Reply

10-23-2009, 02:08 AM	#1
biggumt New Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 8	can accounting be a lucrative career? first of all I love math and am quite good at it and dealing with money really interests me, but I want to have a career that can benefit me financially. Can you go far with accounting? I am currently at a CSU looking to change my major to accounting.
	Reply

10-23-2009, 03:16 AM	#2
Dawgie Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 855	Math has nothing to do with accounting. Accounting can be pretty lucrative. It's boring as hell though.
	Reply

10-23-2009, 08:58 AM	#3
taxguy Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Rockville, Maryland Posts: 5,093	Please read through the thread, "Everything you should know or wanted to know about accounting," found at the top of this forum.
	Reply

10-23-2009, 09:26 AM	#4
Fiyero Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: University of Texas at Austin Posts: 532	If you enjoy math and would like a career involving it with good salaries, have you considered becoming an actuary? You can read more about it on this link. Be An Actuary You can see a salary chart here. Actuary Salary Survey - actuary jobs - D.W. Simpson & Company, Inc. , actuarial, actuaries, Employment, Salaries, Insurance, Statistics, Mathematics, FCAS, ACAS, ASA, FSA, Student, FCIA, FIA
	Reply

Reply

Bookmarks

Submit Thread to del.icio.us

Submit Thread to Digg

Submit Thread to StumbleUpon

Submit Thread to Google

Submit Thread to facebook

Submit Thread to myspace

Submit Thread to twitter

« Previous Thread | Next Thread »

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
career in accounting	student4u	Business School - MBA	1	01-29-2009 03:14 AM
Career in Accounting	Kiwibox	Business School - MBA	6	11-21-2008 12:58 PM
Career towards Accounting	Kiwibox	Graduate School	1	11-19-2008 10:02 PM
Most Lucrative Career Path for Engineers	rkbgt	Engineering Majors	26	07-18-2008 10:48 AM
Accounting career	Rob54	Internships, Careers, and Employment	0	08-15-2007 02:58 PM

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 10:51 AM.