Industries & Specializations
Find your niche in accounting
Choose from a long list of industries and specializations
Ever heard of the buyer’s dilemma? It’s the theory that when shoppers are presented with too many choices – staring at 50 different brands of barbecue sauce in the grocery... Read >
What do you know about white-collar crime?
Test your Fraud IQ!
Do you think you have the know-how to sniff out the stink of organizational fraud? Try your hand at these questions. Read >
Managing the Bigger Picture
Through Management Accounting
CEOs need help getting a clear picture of the organization’s performance and where future business opportunities are. CPA-management accountants are the key players in shaping leadership decision-making and driving success across the organization. Read >
Finding your business soul mate
Go corporate when you’re ready to settle down with one business or industry
Jack of all trades, master of none? When you work as an auditor or consultant, you end up getting a crash course on all types of businesses – usually by... Read >
Accounting’s biggest doorway
Explore the endless options of a public accounting career
Chances are, you’ll start your accounting career in the area of public accounting. From there, what happens is anyone’s guess. It all hinges on where your strengths and interests lie... Read >
Accounting for a cause
Marry your passion with your CPA skills in the non-profit field
If you’ve got a passion for the environment, animals, or education and also happen to really know your way around a balance sheet, then the non-profit industry is for you.... Read >
Big budgets need big brains
Join forces with Uncle Sam through a career in government
While it may seem that some of our politicians don’t value CPAs too highly—what with our trillion-dollar deficit and all—the truth is the nation would be in a lot deeper... Read >
Join an accounting SWAT team
Consulting will keep you on your toes
If someone tells you they work in consulting, it usually doesn’t mean much at first. It’s a pretty catch-all term. But dig deeper, and you’ll find CPAs doing some amazingly... Read >
Digging through the details
Become an accounting detective by specializing in audit
If there’s one thing companies have learned the hard way during the most recent financial crisis, it’s that they need to know exactly how, when and where they are spending... Read >
Is it worth it?
The business valuation credential certainly is
Imagine you’re a company that’s about to buy another company. You think they’re worth $100 million. They think they’re worth $150 million. Who’s right? No pressure. Only $50 million on... Read >
Saving humans from financial disaster
Come to the rescue as a Personal Financial Specialist
If you want to be a personal financial planner, set your sights on the most impressive acronym of them all: PFS. There are a lot of other financial planning certifications... Read >
Order in the court
Rise above the law with a Certification in Financial Forensics
If you’ve always wanted to work alongside Judge Judy, here’s your chance. Whether they’re actually in the courtroom or not (and they often are), forensic accountants are the CPAs who... Read >
Download knowledge that’s in demand
Become a CITP: Certified Information Technology Professional
If you want to be mega popular in the accounting world, become a CPA, CITP. The CITP—Certified Information Technology Professional—is beloved by employers because it means you’ve got the tech... Read >
Stay in school
Use your CPA license to give back in education
Practicing CPAs will tell you that one of the things they love about accounting is that it’s always changing and evolving. Which also makes it a great field for educators.... Read >
The most stereotyped specialization out there
Why you should take a closer look at tax
It’s no secret that some people go out of their way to avoid a career in tax. That shouldn’t come as a complete surprise, since most college and CPA training... Read >
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