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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. Cleaning up a companys accounting books is whats in.
But can accounting be sexy?
All the focus on accounting created a perception to students that accounting matters and is perhaps even sexy, says Ira Solomon, head of the department of accountancy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Colleges are scrambling to find more accounting teachers and professors to replace those retiring. Not an easy task, since there are twice as many 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):
Manual Accounting Versus Computerized Accounting As many professional accountants and auditors state - accounting is a language of business which is accepted in all developed and developing countries.
Every company applies accounting because it is generally accepted that companies have to reveal certain financial and management information to the government and public users and of course because accounting is indispensable tool in business decision-making process. With the development of information technologies there were developed many computer products (software) that make accounting as easy as ABC for those who uses t ..
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 youre good with numbers and a stickler for details, you might want to consider accounting as a good career choice. However, youll probably have to take a number and wait in line behind all those other future accountant hopefuls.
Learning Accounting: Debit and Credit Basics
When learning accounting for the first time, the terms debit and credit can be a bit confusing. Why? Because when you go to the bank and deposit money, the teller will tell you, I am crediting your account X amount of dollars, but if you are taking money our of your account, the teller will tell you, I am debiting your account X amount of dollars. Also, with debit machines all over the place, and credit cards in everyones pocket, the two accounting terms take on a whole new meaning.
However, what weve learned about these two words so important in the accounting world, debit and cr ..
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