<p>So i just found this forum and it’s been really helpful so far. I’m a senior in high school, and I’m thinking of majoring in accounting. So what kind of work do you get in accounting classes? I’m taking a humanities course at Queens college as part of my high school curriculum, and there are a lot of papers to write, obviously. SO do you get papers to write in accounting? or is mainly presentations, group work and stuff?</p>
<p>Maybe a few presentations in AIS or cost accounting. There’s probably gonna be some accounting cases to do so you actually go and interpret the accounting rules yourself. The bulk of your papers, group work, and presentations are going to be in the business core itself and not the accounting major.</p>
<p>Accounting is all numbers. So if you are good in math you will most likely do well in accounting. It is easier than math though. In my opinion accounting is the second hardest business concetration after management information systems/accounting information systems. </p>
<p>The papers/presentations will be in your core business classes (marketing, human resources, management, operations management etc). The accounting classes usually do not have papers and presentations.</p>
<p>I am an accounting major, so I can provide you with an insight of what accounting is like.
During your sophomore year, you will take two introductory accounting courses. The first semester will be Financial Accounting and the second semester is Managerial Accounting.
Then in your junior year, you will have to take Intermediate Accounting I, Intermediate Accounting 2 and Cost Accounting.<br>
Finally, you will have to complete Advanced Accounting, Federal Tax Accounting , Auditing and Accounting Information Systems.
However, at some schools, Federal Tax Accounting and Auditing are elective courses. In other words, it aren’t mandatory classes.
Nevertheless, it is strong recommended that you take those courses since it will help you a lot in the long run.
In order to qualify to sit in the CPA Exam, you will need 150 semester credits. That means four years of college (124 ~ 128 semester credits) plus an additional year. Some schools have a BA in accounting+ MA in accounting. You can check with your school on that.</p>
<p>Actually, we had to write papers in our accounting classes. We had to analyze the performance of a company and compose a three pages paper.</p>
<p>Seems like the op is worried about his writing. You MAY have to write papers but you won’t be penalized as badly for bad english as opposed to other classes. You would be graded more on the accuracy of your work.</p>