Please narialanders am seriously in a deep dialema and i need your advice.i am an accounting graduate, i just finished my nysc program and i am willing to further my education but dont really no weather to do an MBA,ACCA or ICAN.
I had difficulties graduating from the accounting department in my school that's why i was thincking of doing an MBA(i.e switching over) but am scared if after doin an MBA i might not get a well paid job beecause am alredy a B.cs degree holder in accounting.pls i need your advice so that i don't distroy my future.

Is there no body that can really help me...pls i need your advice

What kind of problem(s) did you have with Accounting back in school? Were they core accounting problems?
Do you want to/are you interested/do you think you have the ability to take up a career in Accountancy?
You have to look inwards at your capabilities. If intergrity is a serious issue for you, if cooking books is a part of you, if concentration, being detailed and analytical is a challenge for you. . .just do a real check on yourself and come up with - for Accountancy or against it. Then i'll advice you further

Thanks odonnu...but the fact is that cooking does books you talked about is just my proplem.you no accounting is more of calculations just wanted to run away from the calculations.but am scared that doing an MBA wld not give me a well paid job because i aready have a degree in acoounting.

Apparently you dont understand what 'cooking books' mean. You see, in Accounting there are people who are very good in doctoring books with or without internal control. In the absence of a good auditor, he liquidates an organisation. Its a thing of character. Do you see yourself as one who cant stay but doctor figures?
About calculations, Accountants dont do much of that on the job. Modern softwares do that. Though at your stage, you will have to deal with a lot of calculations and analysis. If you can set your heart to it, you wont punch so much calculators in time to come.
I'm sending you over to the career section, appears you need guidance.

Odunnu: Apparently you dont understand what 'cooking books' mean. You see, in Accounting there are people who are very good in doctoring books with or without internal control. In the absence of a good auditor, he liquidates an organisation. Its a thing of character. Do you see yourself as one who cant stay but doctor figures?
About calculations, Accountants dont do much of that on the job. Modern softwares do that. Though at your stage, you will have to deal with a lot of calculations and analysis. If you can set your heart to it, you wont punch so much calculators in time to come.
I'm sending you over to the career section, appears you need guidance.

Lol, you just spoke like all these academic eggheads. That's exactly how they say it, i.e. you are such a bright student with a fine grasp of theoretical fundamentals and a great potential to perform original research. I will send you over to Columbia University .

OP, where did you hear that being a BSc graduate of Accounting and having an MBA might jeopardize your chances of securing a monetarily excellent job in the near future? I am not sure if this assertion has an iota of truth in it. Or did you just formulate it yourself ? This sounds very comical to me. Please don't be afraid, you won't destroy your future.

That said, if you have a passionate hatred for mild calculations as are done in Accounting, then you won't find it simple if your plan is to get a job at an organization where you will have to start off at entry level. Unless you want to pursue a career in the humanities, I would advise that you forget about running away from Accounting because of not being able to do small, small calculations and instead focus on seriously improving your skills. Whether you pursue an MBA with a major in Human Resources, you will still have to do calculations. Accept this fact.

Meanwhile, just in case you didn't know, I would like to apprise you that doing an MBA after a BSc in Accounting does not necessarily mean that you are switching over. MBA courses are a combination of almost all courses done at the School of Business Administration. You have Accounting, Finance, HR, Marketing and even some trivial Mathematics/Statistics courses etc. In fact, nowadays, HR needs more statistics and numerate people. Moving from Accounting to, say, Physics sounds more like switching from one field to another, not from Accounting to MBA. If you had difficulties graduating from Accounting, then I think you need to sit down and reexamine your strengths and weaknesses. MBA is definitely not a way to escape calculations, in my view.

Finally, if you so very much hate Accounting and calculations with the highest passion in the world, then I suggest you pursue a career as a professional secretary. You may begin by taking the Certified Professional Secretary CPS/CAP Examination. This professional exam may require some years of professional secretarial experience http://www.iaap-hq.org/certification.

Good luck.

T22.

Secretary? i think you took the op to the extreme.

@Yemmi. so mr. yemmi in your own view what do you think...

yemmy_ma: Secretary? i think you took the op to the extreme.

What should one have said now ? The op passionately hates calculations and wants to run away from them.

You know, some company secretaries are enjoying career progression real well and they are also making it real big. They are not the typical seke. In fact, I used to know one very big man who was the company secretary of one very big multinational firm. He rose to that level before he even got a degree in law. He was an economist. Maybe the big man ran away from economics because of calculations, who knows

T22

@Op,

I think what you have not explained well is, can you do some other form of calculation except for the ones in Accounting. Or you just don't want to use a calculator for anything?

Maybe people in Finance do a bit less of calculation. T22 what do you think?

yemmy_ma: @Op,

I think what you have not explained well is, can you do some other form of calculation except for the ones in Accounting. Or you just don't want to use a calculator for anything?

Maybe people in Finance do a bit less of calculation. T22 what do you think?

Modern finance uses much more mathematical and statistical lemmas than does accounting. I am not even talking about quantitative finance/financial engineering which uses death trap measure theoretic probability, stochastic processes and huge programming languages.

I doubt someone will be able to cope with graduate level finance if the person hates to perform calculations. Besides Arts and the Humanities, there is hardly any other field that does not require a basic level of computational ability.

I agree that my knowledge is largely theoretical and research based. Someone who works as a financial analyst might enlighten the OP on how finance is done in practice.

T22.

I think he should go for the MBA. In Marketing or HR.

It definitely shouldnt be as stressful as wholly financial programs like ACCA or ICAN.

Marketing? He will still deal with calculations in Mgt Accts, Managerial Finance etc. If OP is jittery about calculations, he has no business in an MBA, ICAN and ACCA class

I was looking from a lesser of 2 evils point of view.

If he struggled/managed to graduate with 2:2 in accounting (minimum for mba?), he should be able to cope with the 2 or 3 or so maths courses during MBA, than the 12 or more/less in ACCA or ICAN.

Unfortunately, he has only tabled 3 options, so one cannot really advise unless he sheds more light on the career path he'd love to take.
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Logistics, Purchasing & Supply maybe, or even IT Audit?
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OP, can you then widen your options? But, me thinks you are underrating your abilities.

I have revisited your first post and I can conclusively deduce, based on the post, that your hatred for calculations stems from the fact that you found it difficult to graduate from your former school's accounting department. Let me first assure you that it is almost impossible for a university to graduate a student that has zero proficiency in what he/she studied for four solid years, whether the student graduated with a poor grade or not. Many people graduated with third class from the same department I graduated from at a naija university. It doesn't mean that they were completely weak students nor does it mean that they had zero grasp of what they spent 4-5 years studying. Many of these people are chartered accountants today; some of them have CIS while others have CIB. There is even one that is an assistant portfolio manager at one decent asset management firm there in Naija.

OP, open your eyes and criticize yourself constructively and healthily. I suspect you are engaging in an unhealthy criticism of your abilities simply because you struggled in your undergraduate days. Maybe your department was very tough and the standards were too high, not that you, as a person, are less than below average.

I expect you to explain, in much detail, why you feel that calculations are not for you, after you've successfully invested 4-5 years of your life to study a calculation based course.

T22.

Thanks guys.but you see why i sounded so raw was cos i needed opinions directly from the root like a source,a consultant kind of,and you guys are doing just what i had wished.
Studing it's self is not really a problem. The hiden bone behind this whole thing is that i just got a job and it is really tasking, at the same time i want to further my education.going to work,coming back late in the evenning and then sitting up again to study would really be stressful.
I just felt doing an MBA would reduce the level of sit ups cos i did most of those management courses in my yr1 even to my final yr when i was still in school.
I really no most management course are into calculations but for me oo.. accounting needs deeper concentration expercially wen your dealing with a professional body like the ACCA.in fact its not even the calculation that presses most times but its interpretations. Well to some it is as easy as reading a novel but to others the were not just bone with the gift,just as we all are not born with the same star.

Gilbertmandoski: Thanks guys.but you see why i sounded so raw was cos i needed opinions directly from the root like a source,a consultant kind of,and you guys are doing just what i had wished.
Studing it's self is not really a problem. The hiden bone behind this whole thing is that i just got a job and it is really tasking, at the same time i want to further my education.going to work,coming back late in the evenning and then sitting up again to study would really be stressful.
I just felt doing an MBA would reduce the level of sit ups cos i did most of those management courses in my yr1 even to my final yr when i was still in school.
I really no most management course are into calculations but for me oo.. accounting needs deeper concentration expercially wen your dealing with a professional body like the ACCA.in fact its not even the calculation that presses most times but its interpretations. Well to some it is as easy as reading a novel but to others the were not just bone with the gift,just as we all are not born with the same star.

Hi,

How long have you been working and what type of job do you currently do? You don't have to be specific. Just give answers that will guide us.

T22.

Yah..i have been working for like two months now in a fashion/textile industry.not really well paid anyway...

Gilbertmandoski: Yah..i have been working for like two months now in a fashion/textile industry.not really well paid anyway...

1. Working as an accountant?

2. What other options/courses are you open to?

1.No. Head of tailors
2l dont undst second question

Gilbertmandoski: 1.No. Head of tailors
2l dont undst second question

What courses rather study instead of accounting?

None

Stop being so rigid Sir! What d'you mean 'None'. Cant you do IRS or CRK or Horticulture? There are so many courses i'm sure even without knowing you that you can do

Odunnu: Stop being so rigid Sir! What d'you mean 'None'. Cant you do IRS or CRK or Horticulture? There are so many courses i'm sure even without knowing you that you can do

lol!

Gilbertmandoski: None

MBA in HR it is then!

Or CIPM(N)?

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Accounting is an interesting course if u ask me.. Bt my fear is Taxation...no more matter how hard i try to read it, i will still end up wif poor result....I seriously need help cux i intend to push my Education futher...MBA .... My next question is ..How many months is MBA progm.? ..