Accounting (CEI)

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Accounting is the language of business. It encompasses communicating and analyzing financial information for the benefit of businesses, individuals, government, and not-for-profit organizations so that resources are used to better society. Accounting uses data analytics to analyze profits, productivity, sales trends, costs, and other financial information to assist in decision-making. Besides careers opportunities such as public accounting, cost accounting, tax accounting, governmental accounting, and forensic accounting, accountants often play a major role in strategic planning, consulting, M&A, finance, human capital and people management, and technology, and are critical to the operations of the free market system.

For more information about this major, please visit the following links from the FAU University Catalog








Related Major Skills

Adapt well to frequent change
Analyze and interpret data
Computer literacy
Critical thinking
Efficient
Logical thinking
Numerical computation
Oral and written communication
Organized
Problem Solving
Systemizing skills
Team work
Work independently



 


 

Sample Work Settings

Accounting Firms
Advertising Agencies
Banks
Casinos
Construction Companies
Consulting Firms
Corporations
Financial Institutions
Golf Course Management
Health Care Organizations
Higher Education Institutions
Hotels/Motels, Resorts, Clubs
Investment Firms
Labor Unions
Local, State & Federal Government
Manufacturers
Real Estate Agencies
Restaurants
Retail Stores
Small Businesses
Web-based businesses