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Not really. If you say only "accountants" there is a glut. What there is a shortage of is Accountants with no less than three nor more than five years of experience with one of the big four firms, in audit or tax, and preferably with Sarbanes-Oxley experience.

To get a general shortage of accountants in the country again the manufacturing sector would have to start growing. Thanks to some really bad political decisions, that is not going to happen.

every time there is an economic downturn, the accountants are the first to go, since they do not participate in actually producing useful products and making sales. as for office infrastructure, the computer geek is much more useful to have around than the accounting geek.

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Down monkey! Down!

sorry guy, mark spends more per week dining in nice restaurants than you proudly "negotiated" with your so-called negotiation prowess.

'Way back in the 20th century, I had to change jobs in order to keep my mental health. I was making $16,400 with a well known financial organization. (I was not an accountant.) When an interested employer (in the suburbs, not the city) asked my expectations, I said I was expecting to be hired in the eighteen-to-twenty range. As it worked out, I was kept in that range for two years, contrary to expectation.

Lesson learned? I should have filed a grievance against a supervisor who was abusive toward me for well over a year. He wrote me up for failing to meet the requirements of a job that was not mine and had not been offered to me -- from which I inferred that he was going to do whatever he could to get rid of me, and that I should get myself a soft landing.

David Ames

Sorry girl, no one here cares about your boyfriend Mark.

that's interesting david. we can all sympathize. was your supervisor an accounant?

Dean...i would say 1) don't talk salary / benefits untile you are

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good luck !!!

--------snip------------- When job interviewing, I find many employers will ask what you currently make. The tend to offer 3,000 - $4,000 per year more in annual salary. In fact, I one employer who offered $1,000 more per year.

So, is it inappropriate to refuse to tell a potential employer what you

currently make?

I am currently a student NAU and am working on getting my accounting degree. What would be more benefical for me with job interviewing during my years of study? Would it help me any to double major in Finance? Should I get a job in accounting while going to school, or will it be better to wait till I'm a senior next year? Can anyone let me know what is the right foot to step on and how to continue with the most beneficial outcomes? Thanks, CS112 trm38

try to get a part-time job in accounting before graduation even if it's something unpaid like

No, but he had the attutude that if a thing wasn't done his way, then it wasn't done at all. Maybe he would've been more acceptable as an accountant.

I'm browsing here because I'm taking Accounting 101.

Davud Ames

they usually assign the worst, dumbest teacher to teach acc 101. is this true in your case?

take economics, literature, science, or another "real" subject. don't waste your college years studying something lame like accounting.

Although I have no standard of comparison to make that judgment, I am so far satisfied. Numerous sections are available in a community college, so in any case it would be difficult to agree entirely.

David Ames

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thats funny....

-----snip--------------- take economics, literature, science, or another "real" subject. don't waste your college years studying something lame like accounting.

ron...while you may be laughing...i think it would be fair to say maybe the 1st year, or two AT MOST may be < $100k.....no mba/cpa would be wise to stay at a rate < $100k for very long @ any organization.....

It is acceptable to reveal the salary portion of your current compensation package.

If pressed for what you are looking for, have a range in mind whose low end is higher than your base salary at your currently position... but be careful to not price yourself right out of the running.

Good employers will not base your salary on what another company thinks you are worth.

Don't fall into the trap of focusing too much on the money issues, obviously they are important, but you don't want to give the impression you are motivated purely by the bucks and may be making the move only on the basis of that.

i think the starting salary for new mbas from a good school is $135-$155K in 2005.