Top Reasons for Becoming an Accountant
- You need to repay student loans
- Your first degree was in English Literature
- You couldn’t wait to do your first tax return
- The other inmates didn’t enjoy doing tax returns
- You don’t have to go to law school
- The school offered free pencils
- Norm Peterson makes a great role model
- Fewer essay questions in accounting courses
- You were expelled from law school for honesty
- Sixty percent of the accounting majors were female
- You didn’t get a football scholarship to college
- Addiction to pin-stripe suit
- Expelled from kindergarten for lack of creativity during finger painting
- You get to see all your college friends every six months at the CPA exam
- A life sentence is seven years, the CPA requirement is only five years (of course that would be ten years part time)
- Unable to understand the phrase “consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds”
- Wanting to boast of being a “big five”
- Wanting a name tag big enough to include “PriceWaterhouseCoopers”
- Parents are paying for college
- Expelled from architecture for considering the cost of a proposed design
