What to Do with Accounting Degree

There are lot of things you can do with an accounting degree, with multiple career paths in public accounting and private industry. You could even start your own business or break into finance.

In this video, I focus on jobs you can get right out of college with an accounting degree.

If you go into public accounting, you can work in audit, tax, or consulting. If you work for a smaller public accounting firm, you might end up doing a mix of these activities.

If you go into private industry, you'll do the accounting for a single firm (as opposed to public accounting, where you'll have multiple clients) like Apple or Walmart (or for a nonprofit or government agency). Within private industry there are several paths: you could start as a staff accountant, a cost accountant, or an internal auditor.

You could also start your own accounting firm, or use your accounting degree to get a job in finance. An accounting degree would be helpful for getting a job in investment banking or for becoming a financial analyst, a credit analyst, or a budget analyst.

You could also work in accounts receivable or accounts payable or become an accounting clerk, but those jobs don't typically require an accounting degree (you'd likely be overqualified).

If you want to get into forensic accounting, you might consider starting out as an internal auditor.

0:00 Introduction
0:16 Public Accounting Jobs
1:56 Private Industry Jobs
3:31 Finance Jobs
4:00 Honorable mentions
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