pb4uski
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When I was graduating high school, I know that I was interested in business but was totally unsure what aspect of business, but I did have an interest in accounting from a high school bookeeping class and keeping the books for one of my dad's businesses. I figured that every business uses accounting so having an accounting degree could be useful no matter where I ended up.Is there any particular major (aside from medicine / pre-med) you'd suggest for a student who seems to have no preferences at all (aside from *not* wanting to study medicine)?
If student indicated she wanted to major in accounting and pursue a minor in computer science, does it sound doable / reasonable to you? What would her options be if she did pursue this track? Hoping to get some advice from the people here as her (lower income) parents are clueless but want to support her 100% as much they can.
TIA.
Little did I think that I would make accounting a career and over my career work for 2 of the largest 4 firms on the planet.
Accountants are in high demand and some of the partners that I worked for earned as much as $1 million a year or more. Starting salaries for Big 4 staff accountants just out of school are $56-$65k.
But at the end of the day, you need to do something that is interesting to you. That said, I hve many colleagues from my early days in audit that decided to do something else and we able to use their training in different ways.