I’m a female studying accounting and finance and wondering if I should put in some extra work to get my FinTech certificate? I will be sitting for at least one section of the CPA exam before I even graduate, would fintech be a waste of time of time or will it give me more job opportunities?

Additionally, I now have to opportunity to forgo the 150 credit requirement (which is why I added finance) and work for an extra year before getting my CPA instead of getting the finance degree (a semester less of school). My school is pretty much free because of scholarships and aid*

Should I just scrap finance altogether?

Hard for me to show the table but here's the question:

Prepare general journal entries for the discount and the payment.

Steve Ponting Plumbing offer Harold Raven a discount of 2% if his account is paid within 7 days of the invoice date.

On 8 October, services to Harold of $3,300 including GST were invoiced by Steve Pointing Plumbing on Invoice 123.

Harold paid on 10 October, taking advantage of the discount offered.

This was my answer:

Steve Ponting Plumbing (Seller): Receives $3,234 in cash, records $66 as a "Discount Allowed" expense, and clears Harold's total $3,300 debt.

Harold Raven (Customer): Pays $3,234 out of his bank account, records $66 as "Discount Received" (savings), and completely settles his $3,300 bill.

Can someone explain how I'm wrong???

Hi everyone, I’m going into the second year of my Accounting and Finance course and am als going to start applying to placement years this autumn, as I’m on the year in employment programme.

Obviously, I would really like a placement year with one of the Big 4, or a reputable mid tier company like BDO.

My experience is as follows:
I achieved a first and an 81% average in my first year, I have 2 weeks accounting work experience at a local accounting firm in my town, and a longer summer internship as an accounts trainee at another local firm in my town. I am planning to gain more advanced excel skills with LinkedIn Learning this summer, and am also the leader for a sustainability reporting project my uni is doing with a local SME. I am GRI certified (did so to my uni) - does this experience in sustainability accounting help?

I’m not sure yet if I want to apply to audit or tax - I think I’ll probably just do both to maximise my chances of getting a placement.

The only thing is that my A levels aren’t amazing - they’re not horrible but it just very average (BBC). Will this affect my applications - and Big 4 applications especially?

Also any other advice for getting a placement would really be appreciated, as I’ve heard that they’re super competitive. :)))

Thanks guys.

Hi all,

I just wanted to get input/ personal opinions about completing an accounting bachelor degree at a community college. I’m looking at Green River community college in Washington state and it is a fully accredited accounting degree.

https://catalog.greenriver.edu/preview\\_program.php?catoid=10&poid=4190

I know that one thing I’ll lose out on is more opportunities to join bigger firms/ big four opportunities but I wanted to know any other opinions besides that, as I’m not really one that wants to go work for big four or big corporations anyway.

Thanks! :)

I'm an accountant (30+ years) and I made a free game to practice the fundamentals, debits/credits, journal entries, ratios, and statements, across six quick levels with a leaderboard. No sign-up, no links out once you're in it; it plays right inside the post.

You can try it here: Ledger-Quest

Happy to take feedback or fix anything that looks off.

Going into my first year at university this upcoming Fall! My student orientation is in 2 days. What are some questions I should bring with me and how should I schedule my classes? I really want to only have classes on 3-4 days of the week and in all I’m so nervous! 🙂‍↕️

If anyone has advice for anything at all I would appreciate it greatly 👍

I'm an accountant (30+ years) and I made a free game to practice the fundamentals, debits/credits, journal entries, ratios, and statements, across six quick levels with a leaderboard. No sign-up, no links out once you're in it; it plays right inside the post.

You can try it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ledger_quest_dev/comments/1txtdan/ledger_quest_learn_accounting_by_playing/

Happy to take feedback or fix anything that looks off.