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Cheryl is accustomed to employers asking questions about current events. It’s a great way for both parties to break the ice. But Cheryl is an accounting graduate, so when potential employers probe for her opinions on the state of the world economy, she doesn’t beat around the bush. “I’ve learned not to fear questions about Enron and other accounting scandals,” she says. “You can’t cower under a table about the fact that you are an accounting professional. I can usually turn these discussions into an opportunity to prove to a potential employer precisely why my accounting skills are so important.”
“Enron may have caused our latest problems,” says Mark Thrasher, CPA. “But that is not a failure of audit principles. It’s an ethical failure of a few people in an isolated office.”1 If Enron has proved that bad accounting creates financial failure, then it should also be obvious to the public that, by corollary, good accounting has important economic consequences as well.
That truth helps leave accounting professionals feeling a bit less discomfited. Indeed, the opportunities for accounting professionals are anything but meager. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the demand for accountants is expected to grow at the same rate as the overall labor market through 2006.2 In fact, because of decreased enrollments in college accounting programs nationwide, the competition to find employees with superb accounting skills should become more and more keen.
“Audit services are still a necessity and will continue to be,” Thrasher assures us. He reminds us that government regulation that has resulted from these high-profile scandals, is likely to increase the “scope” of audits, and should result in “a requirement of more man hours per audit and more work for accountants.”3
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1. Mary Lebeau. “Job Outlook for Accounting Majors.” http://www.jobweb.com/Resources/Library/On_the_Job/Job_Outlook_for_184_01.htm
2. Noah P. Barsky and Anthony H. Catanach, Jr. “Some Thoughts on the Demise of the Accounting Major and Suggested Strategies for Survival.” Abstract, Villanova University. http://www.abe.villanova.edu/proc2000/n077.pdf
3. Lebeau, p. 2
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