This why I want make 4.0 or at least 3.5. Accounting Majors at ETSU requires a minimum of 2.5 If i made that grade I be laughingstock to my classmates. University of Tennessee requires accounting majors to have 3.0 while rest of business field can squeak by with 2.0 I mean Most employees will never see your grades, but I will be P.O. if one of my classmate got the job I wanted and I made a better grade. :-? Lol. oh well. Accounting jobs are expected to skyrocket by 2016 according to Bureau of Labor, so I'm not sweating it.
I can thank Enron for that and uh Arthur Anderson. :
I don't mean to scare you ... but you should be sweating a little bit.
I graduated May 2008 with an Accounting degree. I was by no means a stand out student, but I would say I was a little above average. My overall GPA was in the 3.4's and my Accounting GPA was in the 3.6's. I did not land a regular full time job until March 2009 .... and it is not accounting related.
I worked 4 temp jobs, all in the accounting field, between June 08 and February 09. During that time I also interviewed for probably 10 regular full time positions. I made it to the second round of interviews in many of those and a couple of those I even had some pull from someone on the inside. IMO, I felt like I was interviewing against 10+ people (many of whom were over qualified) for 1 position. I think in times like these many people are working jobs they are probably over-qualified for just to have a job. I felt like for these "just of a school" accounting jobs I was interviewing against people with their Masters, people who have been in the industry for a few years, or even both.
I guess what I am trying to say is don't sit back and relax and expect all these great job offers to come rolling in just because you have this piece of paper and hear these figures of how the accounting field is growing and will continue to grow. I heard the same BS and never imagined it would have been as hard as it was to find a job.
3.83 cum gpa, double major in accounting and business admin with emphasis in finance, was luckily able to land a job in a small cpa firm about a month after graduating in may
the market is very tough right now... i sent out probably resumes to 100 places. have fun with the cpa exam if you take that route... it sucks as much as everyone says ;D
Grades aren't as important as internships and involvement. Real life application and experience > being able to study