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Originally Posted by HockeyCA
How does one get Accounting Experience without an Accounting Degree? What Accounting firm would hire someone without a degree?
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You don't need a BS for most accounting jobs. It's actually cheaper to hire Accountants that way. A two year certificate is enough(36 units/fast). You can get that through a JC(cheap), then work for account temps.
I am a fifth generation Accountant, it runs in my family's blood. I also ran a small Sign company(my own, in a mall) for about Five years.
You don't have to work for Accounting firms. That is actually the worse Job an Accountant can have.
You want to work for private companies, they pay more.
I got my experience in an apprenticeship through account temps. Then I went to school when the company I was working for (agreed to cover costs cause they liked me, and wanted to keep me).
School actually doesn't teach you to be an Accountant. Only work experience can do that. The only thing I learned in College I would consider (Valuable) would be the tax classes I had to take.
Cause America's Tax code needs about a year of instructional aid to understand (if you are dealing with Million Dollar Company assets).
The demand for a half way decent Accountant is really high right now, So people are not really picky about who they hire.
It's easy for Certificate people like I used to be to undercut(pay wise) College grads. That's what I did to start at the company I am at.
I worked for half the price a College grad would (no student loans to pay). Then they offered to pick up my tab for school(after three years of hard work).
The degree is the most overrated piece of paper in America. It's the new high school Diploma.
America needs to go back to master and apprentice. I could teach a motivated High school Kid to do my Job in about four years. He doesn't need 60k in dept and a piece of paper to learn what I do.
College is the biggest money scam in America right now. Student Loans are also the next Bubble all of us TAX payers are on the hook for.
