Accounting discipline

If you are Canadian, you already satisfy the university degree requirement for the CGA designation.

Oddly enough they don't appear to much care what the degree is in, just as long as you have one.

I am in US not in Canada. In accounting what kind of job apportunities available and what is the education or knowledge requirement?

good grief! why switch from EE to accounting??

I'm curios why you are getting out of engineering and going to accounting?

Hehe :) That's a practical individual. He must be in USA.

A CPA designation will require a lot of work to attain. Getting paid any meaningful $$$$ in the Accounting field usually comes to a person who has their CPA degree and then after several years of working in the Accounting field, has aquired in-depth knowledge in a field of Accounting that is highly prized by large businesses, eg., Taxation, Forensic Auditing, etc.. If you are making reasonable $$$ in the Electrical Engineering field now, I think you would be several years catching up to the same income level in the Accounting field. At the lower levels of Accounting expertise, their are too many people chasing the available opportunities. It is a big switch. Try to talk with some senior Accounting people who can give you an honest evaluation of entering the Accounting field.

Rick

I didn't like engineering jobs so I want to start a home based business or a career in accounting. If you answres about my questions let me know.

Thanks

you don't know anything about accounting, so how do you know you would like it more than engineering????

You'll need to accumulate some experience working for others before striking out on your own.

Have you done anything to determine if you will like accounting any better than electrical engineering?

There are some similarities between the two fields. One of those similarities is that they are both detail oriented. So, if you can see where I'm going with this, if you didn't like engineering because of it's detail oriented nature... then you won't like accounting much better either.

Before making a switch, I'd suggest going somewhere that can administer the Myers-Briggs personality test. Then based on those results and your Myers-Briggs personality type pick up a copy of "Do What You Are" by Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger and read the section under your personality type to gain a better understanding of yourself and the general career areas your personality type may do well in.

spoken like a true, naysaying accountant joe.

thousands of people have made millions of dollars becoming eBay powersellers without any prior business experience. also, thousands of immigrants start family businesses that make them millionaires without any prior business education or even knowledge of the english langauge. only accountants believe you have to pass 9 certification tests and get

5 years of grunt experience before you can tie your shoes! but I have news for you: the world is built by entrepreneurs who do not have certifications and CPAs.

I see you bought into the bill of goods sold to you by accounting firms that you need N years of experience. The big firms sell this "experience" idea so they can get cheap labor for young eager employees willing to work cheap to gain this nebulous "experience."

Ok just curious

Reason is I'm back in college and was "thinking" abt an engineering degree. But not sure engineering is the right thing for me.

That's a good idea and one I should do myself as well

Thank God for that!

Jeeeesshhh, And just when I was thinking that most of the unqualified practising millionaire accountants were coming straight out of Nigeria and running Enron and the like. I was nearly on the point of making a frightful mistake.

here's an interesting fact: 83% of people who take the Myers-Briggs test find that they should either be a teacher or a psychologist.

Why do many? Because only teachers and shrinks are interested in taking a test to determine what they want from life. Others know without having to take a test to tell them, hahahaha!

No, I'm not saying certifications are required. Often, certifications only prove one can study and pass the exams.

Experience, on the other hand, is good thing to have. I'd take someone with real working experience over a new grad with no work experience any day.

I find that a somewhat dubious generalization.

Can you back that statement up with the source?

One may know what they want from life, but they also need to know what areas they may be best suited for.