The Pros And Cons Of Accounting

Accounting is a declining major because students don’t want to put in the work that goes into all the classes in order to receive their degree. From 1998 the percentage of students that are graduating with this degree has fallen 14.9% (Hunt, 2008). The number of resumes that have been submitted to the program has fallen from 180 to 96 but the number of schools that want accounting students has grown from 110 to 222 (Hunt, 2008). These statistics are showing us that it isn’t the lack of schools that want students but moreover it is the students that no longer want to go into this career. The programs at these colleges have begun to have inactive programs due to insufficient students applying for the program (Hunt, 2008). The number of …show more content…
When accounting firms don’t look at students that are fresh out of college they are missing that opportunity to shape them into the kind of workers that they really want. Accounting firms are instead hiring people that have experience at other places, those other places will have trained them differently than what your firm may go by. When recent college graduates are applying for these jobs at accounting firms they need to have that “wow factor” about them in order to even be looked at. Being young and having that factor is difficult because they haven’t done much with their lives or careers at that point, they are applying so they can build up their “wow factor”. When accounting firms overlook the young college graduates that want to work for them they are denying them the chance to build up their careers, which in turn leads to those graduates just giving up on their career. They give up because they begin to realize that the accounting firm only wants older people with more experience (Leslie, …show more content…
This leads into the fact that accounting majors don’t have much time for anything but studying for these courses, they don’t have time to do internships during the year or get a part-time job working at an accounting firm. These students really can’t build up their resume throughout college they have to do that after they have graduated and by that point nobody wants to consider them for the job because they haven’t done any of those things. Accounting firms need to begin to realize how much more time goes into this major as the years go on, a lot more is demanded of college students and they don’t always have time for everything else in the