B.A. Economics vs. Accounting

Sam_Lee
Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:03:25 +0000

No. If you got a CPA, you can get employed as “financial analyst” due to your good understanding and ability to interpret financial statements. You can do corporate finance. But it’s not the same thing as investment “analyst” where higher level math and probabilistic stats (e.g. for risk management) may be involved. I don’t claim to be an expert in this, however, since I am an engineer trying to transition to finance once I get my green card. But what I said are based on job postings I’ve seen and accountants (two consins and one of my best friends) I know. You can do a job serach on monster or whatever using CPA as keyword and you can tell there are zillion positions that I don’t view as typical “accountant” asking for CPAs.