"This summer on campus, accounting courses generate interest; Students finding jobs despite the weak economy" by Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times | August 12, 2008
SAN DIEGO - The weather is balmy and the local beaches are inviting, so naturally San Diego State students are thinking about . . . accounting.
Yes, accounting. It has become one of the hot courses on campus.
Enrollment is up, one of the accounting lecturers twice has been named professor of the year, and several dozen students spent their summer mornings in a class poring over a 3-inch-thick tome titled "Federal Taxation."
The class is Accounting 321: Integrative Accounting Topics, chockablock with discussions of interest, dividends, municipal bonds and the perils and joys of partnerships. Informally, it is known as accounting boot camp. There were no spare seats.
Part of the answer to accounting's new rise might be the inherent romance of business. Then there is this fact: Even in a downish economy, accounting students are finding jobs - jobs that just might be the first step toward running their own company, or claiming that corner office in an established business.
Accounting 321 at San Diego State requires 30 hours of homework a week. Students have to wait until their junior year and possess a 2.9 grade point average to declare as accounting majors.
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And I had to choose history as my major.
At least I don't need the accounting skills, huh?
