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Accounting InformationSurprise! Accounting is the Hot New Major
by:
Donna Monday
There was a time once
accounting was the boring college major that many a folk regretted language up for. A constant barrage of numbers, statistics and spreadsheets was none too interesting.
Boy, have times changed! Thanks to recent accounting scandals by companies like Enron, there is a high demand for accountants and auditors.
According to the Job Outlook 2005 survey, accounting comes out on top as the most in-demand major on college campuses. Forget dot com start ups. Clean up up a company’s accounting books is what’s in.
But can accounting be sexy?
“All the focus on accounting created a perception to students that accounting matters and is maybe even as sexy,” says Ira Solomon, head of the department of business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Colleges are scrambling to find much accounting teachers and professors to replace those retiring. Not an easy task, since there are double
as many a accounting faculty openings than applicants to fill them.
Here are the top 10 most in-demand college majors as surveyed by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE):
1) Accounting
2) Electrical Engineering
3) Mechanical Engineering
4) Business Administration/Management
5) Economics/Finance
6) Computer Science
7) Computer Engineering
8) Marketing/Marketing Management
9) Chemical Engineering
10) Information Sciences and Systems
If you’re nice with amount and a disciplinarian for details, you power want to consider accounting as a nice career choice. However, you’ll probably have to take a number and wait in line behind all those different futurity bourgeois hopefuls.
Just about the author:
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Donna Weekday
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