Launching Your Accounting Career : A Step-by-Step Guide
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Book Description
Recruit more accounting majors by educating your students about the variety of accounting career opportunities in today?s job market. Now, more than ever before, job seekers have access to valuable, up-to-date information on career opportunities worldwide. Launching Your Accounting Career: A Step-by-Step Guide, by McKay and Rosa, authors of The Accountant?s Guide to Professional Communication, will help accounting students take advantage of the wealth of available career resources. The accounting profession is in the midst of rapid change. Many new jobs are emerging as a result of computer technology, globalization of business, and changes in the business environment. An accounting degree can be the ticket to a wide range of opportunities in management, finance, business consulting, and information technology, as well as in the more traditional career paths of public and corporate accounting. With the variety of jobs open to accounting majors, it is important for students to focus on career choices early on. Launching Your Accounting Career: A Step-by-Step Guide will encourage students to begin charting their career paths as freshmen, to prepare themselves for the marketplace during their sophomore and junior years, and to target and obtain their first jobs as they approach graduation.
About the Author
Melanie McKay, PhD, is Director of Writing Across the Curriculum and Associate Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans. She is a specialist in technical writing and workplace communications. For over two decades, she has served as a professional writing consultant to accounting firms, financial institutions, manufacturing companies, oil companies, and other corporate clients. Elizabeth Rosa, MBA, CPA, CMA, is Associate Professor of Business. She teaches courses in Financial, Managerial, Cost, and Advanced Accounting, Auditing, and Career Development Skills. Her research and publication interests are in the area of accounting communication skills and accounting career development. She has had several years of public accounting and small business management experience.
Launching Your Accounting Career : A Step-by-Step Guide,Melanie McKay,Elizabeth Rosa,Custom Publishing,075931649X,Accounting - General,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Business & Economics / Accounting / General
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