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hrandani · 10-23-2007, 07:18 PM

I was wondering if anybody had advice on moving into finance, actuary, CPA type work for someone who earned their degree in science. Despite heavily resisting the whole educational process, I'm not too happy at the prospect of facing a career in my field after slogging through the degree, and was entertaining thoughts of picking up, and moving in the complete opposite direction.

I must be going crazy, as I've never taken classes in business or accounting, but for some reason this fantasy has really taken a hold on me. I've been through webpages about sitting the CPA exam in the States and it seems that you generally for most places need to have taken anywhere from 15-60 hours in accounting / business law classes to take the exam, but not in all states. For example, Alaska apparently allows you to take the test with a degree in another field if you work for a CPA for a year. I'm just barely in my early 20s and would welcome change / a move, and am not opposed to chartered accounting in Canada or whatever they refer to it as. At any rate a few semesters back in some community college wouldn't kill me.

I'm in a flux right now careerwise and just was exploring things. My other option was to go back into law school, so I thought I'd toss this into the ring and see if I came out with any other good choices.

Thanks in advance.

10-23-2007, 07:18 PM	#1 (permalink)
hrandani Insane	Becoming a CPA; recommending careers I was wondering if anybody had advice on moving into finance, actuary, CPA type work for someone who earned their degree in science. Despite heavily resisting the whole educational process, I'm not too happy at the prospect of facing a career in my field after slogging through the degree, and was entertaining thoughts of picking up, and moving in the complete opposite direction. I must be going crazy, as I've never taken classes in business or accounting, but for some reason this fantasy has really taken a hold on me. I've been through webpages about sitting the CPA exam in the States and it seems that you generally for most places need to have taken anywhere from 15-60 hours in accounting / business law classes to take the exam, but not in all states. For example, Alaska apparently allows you to take the test with a degree in another field if you work for a CPA for a year. I'm just barely in my early 20s and would welcome change / a move, and am not opposed to chartered accounting in Canada or whatever they refer to it as. At any rate a few semesters back in some community college wouldn't kill me. I'm in a flux right now careerwise and just was exploring things. My other option was to go back into law school, so I thought I'd toss this into the ring and see if I came out with any other good choices. Thanks in advance.