Accounting and English double major?

jonahrubin
Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:59:56 +0000

I don’t think it would help at all.

First, I think most people have figured out that degrees which should require good writing skills are still handed out to people with terrible writing skills, or people with prose that might be good for discussing “Ode on a Grecian Urn” but not writing a memo about cost segregation studies. Second, a lot of what you’ll do as a staff level tax person will be filling out forms, not writing. Remember that the tax business is filled with lawyers who ought to be able to write about tax law better than you can. Your advantage is hopefully better understanding the accounting and the implications of tax effects on the bottom line.

That said, you misspelled pursuing and your last sentence is not grammatically correct so maybe you could use some work on that whole writing thing. Or not, because it’s not like you are going to have to give anybody writing samples before they hire you.