Anybody here have a completely unrelated undergraduate degree before accounting? I have a bachelor's in Psychology…I really did a 180°

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One of the partners at a local firm had a degree in something completely unrelated to accounting. He’s a CPA. I guess maybe at one point you just needed to pass the exam and have experience?

I don’t know too many details. This was mentioned during a recruiting event and I didn’t ask for details.

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As long as you took the requisite minimum amount of accounting classes to sit for the exam you didn’t have to major in accounting.

Yes . I was going to nursing school and after two years, I went back and got an mba and am
So happy to be a CPA

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I have a BS in Mathematics.

Psychology/sociology

Communications.

My dad did and was a stockbroker!

i’m enrolled in school to get a degree in computer science because i want out of accounting 😭

Math degree, long story how I ended up in audit.

I was a cosmetologist.

I did mechanical engineering and computer science.

Bachelors in Legal Studies and Psychology
Masters in Higher Education
Here I am in public accounting lol

There is, but it looks like I can’t chat you. My email is barillichelsea@gmail.com.

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Accounting wasn’t even on the radar and here I am.

Finance.

Exercise Science

Graphic design degree

A partner in our National Office has his bachelor’s degree in psychology before getting his masters in accounting

English degree lol. Got an internship with PwC with zero accounting classes, then fulltime offer. lol.

i interned in 2015. started fulltime 2016.

Bachelors in Psychology was my first degree. Now I have a BSBA in Accounting, a MAcc, and am enrolled in a MTax now. 🥸

Psychology

Electronics and communication engineering

Yeah I had a Psychology degree too!

Psychology as well

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