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Any accountants out there moved out of accounting?

claricexoclaricexo
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I'm starting to wonder if I want to stay in accounting for the long haul, but I have no idea what else I would do.  Anyone else have any thoughts/suggestions/tips?

 

FYI on my background, I'm a CPA and I started my career in public accounting and I'm now in a traditional accounting job (monthly close, year-end audits,etc).

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Re: Any accountants out there moved out of accounting?

  • vigurlvigurl member
    Not a CPA here but was a Financial Analyst.  Moved out of it b/c I hated # crunching.  I became a Finance recruiter, now I do corporate recruiting.
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  • claricexoclaricexo

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    Not a CPA here but was a Financial Analyst.  Moved out of it b/c I hated # crunching.  I became a Finance recruiter, now I do corporate recruiting.

     

    Interesting.  Is that commission based or salaried?  Did you have to work for an independent firm before joining a corportation?

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  • LeahCKLeahCK member

    I'm in a related field. instead of month end closings we create and and monitor projects that affect the bottom line. 

    A private sector bank would eat you up. You could support project managers, etc. 

    You could also do compliance work (they love accountants). 

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  • chardonnay24chardonnay24 member

    I'm not an accountant (yet) but I have an accounting degree and worked as a tax preparer. I recently moved into the legal field and it was a relatively easy transition. Actually, they told me after they hired me that they preferred to hire someone without legal experience but who had great attention to detail, experience reading and understanding complex documents, etc. and that it was my accounting background that made the decision easy for them.

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  • michelle_1221michelle_1221 member
    I work for a large hospital and have a lot of options. I went into financial operations, which means I work with clinical leadership on understanding operational results, creating budgets, business plans and have some involvement on almost all aspects of their business. It's very dynamic! Other options would be a quality analyst, financial planning, IT system project manager, and administrator roles.
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  • vigurlvigurl member
    imageclaricexo:

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    Not a CPA here but was a Financial Analyst.  Moved out of it b/c I hated # crunching.  I became a Finance recruiter, now I do corporate recruiting.

     

    Interesting.  Is that commission based or salaried?  Did you have to work for an independent firm before joining a corportation?

    Salaried. Plus bonus.

    Yes I worked for a temp staffing agcy before working for a corp. That is usually the way to go.  It is hard to get into corp recruiting w/no exp.

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  • nuremenoshnuremenosh member
    I switched from corporate to a small CPA firm that focuses on tax prep. Tax prep has a definite busy season obviously but all other times of year I only work part time.
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