1. High school course. It turned out I was good at it.
2. BS in business administration, major Accounting.
3. I'm a controller of a small company. I prepare monthly financial
statements and variance analysis reports when I'm not on Yahoo, payroll
and human resources, manage cash levels and payable disbursements and
occasionally take out the trash.
4. Patience, common sense, strong set of morals.
5. Highs - Getting my CPA license, becoming a controller it means I know
something. Lows - it seems when something goes right it is the
exception. Nearly everything I deal with messed up in some way or
another. In public accounting, you have to compromise a lot of your
personal life, the hours long, and there is the stress of deadlines.
6. Aim as high up the ladder as you can go - good grades, meet the right
people who can help you along, stay focused on what you want out of it.
I agree with the previous poster you can't do this halfway. The reward
after wards can be amazing. If later you decide this is not for you,
that's okay. Many of my friends have left the profession. My own brother
is a CPA as well and now runs his own home improvement company.
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