<p>1) Double major accounting/finance, minor in statistics/communication (8 semesters)
2) One major in accounting, minor in communication; one year master of accounting science, minor in finance (8 semesters)</p>
<p>Both options achieve the 150 credit hours requirement. </p>
<p>Which one helps me to get a job easily right after graduation?
And which one is more helpful for preparing the CPA exam?</p>
<p>THANKS A LOT!!</p>
<p>What’s your goal? I assume since you are going for the CPA, you want to go into public accounting…correct?</p>
<p>If you want to go into public accounting, option 2 would be your best choice.
However why are you planning on doing minors in communication AND finance? That won’t help your cause at all for public accounting. I would consider it to be a waste of time and may lower your GPA which isn’t good if you are trying to get into public accounting.</p>
<p>Thank you sp1212. In fact, I haven’t really thought about my long-term goal yet… My short-term goal is get a job as soon as possible when I graduate. So I don’t know which one would give me a better opportunity to get more interviews.
Some people said that a CPA certification is more valuable than a master degree, and master is better than dual bachelors degree. Is it right?</p>
<p>I want to do communication as a minor to improve my English and presentation skills. And only 3 more classes to go to get a minor in finance.</p>
<p>Well, unfortunately your plan is pretty bad. You have no idea what you want to do, just want to get as many interviews as possible, and take the CPA exam?</p>
<p>If you go in to any interview with that mindset you will fail. Before coming and asking for advice it’d be helpful to have some idea what you want to do so we can give applicable advice. </p>
<p>When do you graduate?</p>
<p>Thank you workingATbig4. You are right for that. I do think that I need some time to think about what I am going to do in the future. The reason I said I need interviews because as an international student, it is really hard to get a job in the United States. Some international students couldn’t even stay here because they were not able to find any job. I used to have plans for myself, but when things come to reality, they are not usually feasible. To compete with those outstanding native students and international students, I have to make myself unique somehow. So I became someone who get lost… Thank you very much for pointing it out. I will think about it, and I hope you and all the nice advisors here can help me find the right track for me. :)</p>
<p>I am a sophomore student. I just got transferred to the College of Business from LAS. I am expecting to graduate in 2014.</p>
<p>By the way, I just said “I used to have plans.” So the plans I used to have are getting an accounting job, take CPA exams if I found accounting is all I want to do. Or going to a MBA school, and then going back to my country if things won’t work out.</p>
<p>I’ve talked to recruiters from each of the big 4 about the difference between these options. They don’t care if you do the dual degree or masters as long as you are eligible to sit for the CPA exam. Also, in which state are you planning on becoming a CPA? I know in Illinois the requirements are changing in 2013. I don’t know if this is the same for other states too.</p>
<p>As far as which will prepare you more for the CPA exam, then option 2 will probably prepare you slightly better. I’ve talked to people who have done both options though, and they’ve all said that taking a CPA prep course is the way to go.</p>
<p>Thank you very much, hamburgl4r. I will look up for more information about the new requirements.</p>