Has anybody pivoted from accounting to a Business Analyst position? Been casually looking at potential jobs that can utilize an accounting background. Open for input regarding that type of position or other jobs that benefit from an accounting background that isn’t accounting as well.

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Advisory is nice and interesting path to take within accounting

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Public Accounting is a non-starter lol. Looking to get out of that nonsense, not dive further into it.

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Audit. Specially financial audit either external or internal audit benefit from the Accounting background.

If you are looking for more life balance I would recommend internal audit. And you also have the possibility to move to the operational side of things which Accounting is not used for but is based on a risk and process approach.

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I'm interviewing for a couple business manager roles right now. So we'll see...

i am interested in this too but struggling to find positions since entry level requires experience nowadays as well

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