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  1. Hello, everyone.
  2. My name is Samantha.
  3. Oh, God.
  4. Oh, and today I will be discussing accounting as a
  5. potential career.
  6. First, I will be discussing why I chose accounting.
  7. Math plays a huge role in accounting, and I've always
  8. thought that I had a natural liking for it, and
  9. I tended to do better in it than my other
  10. classes. So I thought I would use this to my
  11. benefit and choose a career and major that were very
  12. math oriented.
  13. Another reason that I chose accounting is because I think
  14. that the preparation and the role of accounting itself helps
  15. to make you very independent with finances, since you tend
  16. to be more knowledgeable on this subject.
  17. Another reason why I chose accounting is because I think
  18. it's a good way to have an independent practice but
  19. still be able to help others through their business, since
  20. you are helping to guide them, have better profits in
  21. better financial security.
  22. Next, I will be discussing what the accounting work environment
  23. is like.
  24. So accounting is a very versatile position and there's a
  25. lot of different options toe what your work environment will
  26. actually look like.
  27. But there's kind of three main categories, and those can
  28. be broken down as follows.
  29. The first top picture on the left kind of represents
  30. a classic office job 9 to 5.
  31. You work in a larger building with a lot of
  32. other people in the company, some of which are also
  33. accountants like you.
  34. The top right picture represents.
  35. If you have your own independent practice, you'll have your
  36. own business.
  37. Place your own reception, everything like that, and you tend
  38. to work just yourself, or maybe with another accountant as
  39. well. And the bottom picture represents that you can have
  40. your own practice or with work with a company, and
  41. you can work from home.
  42. This means that all your data and information will typically
  43. be translated and communicated online rather than in person.
  44. The growth outlook for accounting seems to be a projected
  45. 6% from 2018 to 2028.
  46. This is about the same rate as other occupations, so
  47. it's not necessarily positive or negative.
  48. It's just about average.
  49. Next, I will be talking about the types of technology
  50. in account, so technology in accounting is very different and
  51. it varies from company to company because they tend to
  52. use different Softwares that better suit their products, Service's and
  53. their financial accounts.
  54. The's congee different on line platforms.
  55. Some companies tend to use more physical materials rather than
  56. online. But for the most part, a lot of different
  57. companies have different Softwares that they use, along with very
  58. common software, such as Like Excel, which is used a
  59. lot to do different additions and subtractions to financial accounts.
  60. The way the technology is expected to changes in accounting
  61. is really seeming to transition more toe a fully online
  62. career. This can mean that you still go into the
  63. workplace, but a lot of your information and data that
  64. you work on daily and access will be stored in
  65. the cloud.
  66. Now this is an extremely common right now, but a
  67. lot of companies do seem to be switching to it
  68. just because of how easy it is to access and
  69. share information with others, rather than having just physical papers
  70. or copies of things which can easily either be lost
  71. or not as easily shared with other people who you
  72. work with.
  73. Next, we will be looking at finance and its role
  74. in accounting, so I am majoring in finance, and I
  75. chose this mainly because I want to be an accountant.
  76. But on Lee, that would kind of be not as
  77. successful as choosing a major that is very versatile.
  78. And that's one of the benefits of choosing finance is
  79. there are many career options aside from accounting.
  80. I also think that majoring in finance in particular to
  81. be an accountant is very beneficial because the classes that
  82. you are taking aren't Onley geared towards accounting, like in
  83. an accounting major.
  84. But you're also taking other classes that benefit your financial
  85. knowledge, for example, to have a finance major.
  86. Some of the courses that you have to complete include
  87. both financial and managerial accounting, which are two very different
  88. types of accounting, and you're still getting that under your
  89. bell as well as another example is statistics for business
  90. and economics, which kind of gives you a better idea
  91. of finance in a role outside of accounting.
  92. So I feel like it gives you a well rounded
  93. balance to become an accountant, and when you're enrolled in
  94. a finance major, just the fact that you are attempting
  95. to complete this major allows you to have ah position
  96. in accounting internships as well as other finance internships, which
  97. could benefit you in the long run for your accounting
  98. career. Next, I will be talking about the things that
  99. I learned while researching counting.
  100. So the two main takeaways that I had from this
  101. were first.
  102. That accounting has a lot of job flexibility.
  103. This is one of the things that I hadn't particularly
  104. considered. But I do think will benefit me greatly as
  105. an individual, because having the option to work from home
  106. does seem really appealing to me.
  107. And I know that it's very common practice in accounting.
  108. The second thing that I learned was that there's a
  109. wide range of Softwares.
  110. I thought that the majority of accounting in practice that
  111. I would have to learn I would be able to
  112. learn through my classes.
  113. But I realized that most employees have to learn their
  114. company's software once they're in a position.
  115. Next, I will be talking about accounting in the FBI
  116. you community.
  117. So the first club that I noticed that f i
  118. u waas out fla A L P f A.
  119. And this is the Association of Latino Professionals in Finance
  120. and Accounting.
  121. This organization is the largest business student organization on campus
  122. and is a part of one of the largest professional
  123. organizations for Latinos in the entire nation.
  124. I think that this would be a great opportunity for
  125. me and would also leave me to finding a position
  126. in accounting.
  127. The second organization that I was looking at was Finance
  128. and Management Association.
  129. I think this would be a great addition to my
  130. classes that if I you because the mission of FM
  131. A is to promote the development and understanding of basic
  132. and applied research and sound financial practices.
  133. Its intention is to enhance the quality of your education
  134. and finance, and I think that this could greatly benefit
  135. me as a finance student.
  136. That's all on my topic of accounting and thank you
  137. for watching.