Business Major Questions (Accounting concentration)

arc918
Wed, 13 Aug 2014 21:16:48 +0000

A couple quick comments (25 year CPA here): when I worked at Deloitte ( ~20 years ago), students from certain “target schools” did get higher starting salaries than their peers from other local schools.


Unless your daughter already has a place to worked lined up (say a family friend in the business) I’d vote for AACSB over the other. Also, I like traditional vs. on-line for business, perhaps it’s my “old guy bias.” She will be competing against these students for jobs. It likely won’t matter once she get 5+ years in, but entry level it could be a disadvantage.
As far as sitting for the CPA exam, generally the sooner the better. That said, there were certain sections (auditing in particular) which became much clearer to me once I started working.