Misleading Belief in Choosing Accountancy as a Course in College

With the vast choices of courses available for selection most incoming college students find it hard to choose the program that will suit them best. When I was in my fourth year during high school, there was a time that I found myself in the same situation. To help myself in choosing which course to take, I assessed myself on where am I good at. I like numbers ever since elementary and I decided to take up something related to problem solving and computations. Through research and conversations with my teachers and friends who are already in college, I made a decision to take an engineering course. Back when I am still on my verge of questioning, most people that I have talked to told me to take up Accountancy for I am good in numbers. Nevertheless they almost equated Mathematics to Accountancy, Accountancy to Banking and Banking to more money.

            To my peers’ astonishment, I took up Accountancy in a public state university. Not because of the belief that Accountancy is really intended for math people like what has been imparted to me by some. I chose the mentioned course for two reasons, one is, it will be easier for me to finish my college studies because Accountancy can be completed at the earliest, four years compared to Engineering with five years of time span to be accomplished. The second is that, the books and materials needed for the said study is a bit cheaper than Engineering tools.

            Every time I am asked about the course I have taken I always hear them say, “Oh! You’re good in Mathematics.”

            Let me share you the truth behind having Accountancy as a course in college, it definitely includes lots of computations but their complexity in incomparable to trigonometry, physics, calculus and statistics. Knowledge of arithmetic will be enough to get you through the computations you will need in solving accounting problems. Yes, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The skill really needed in Accounting is analysis and comprehension. These two are really critical to enable you pass your subjects and eventually, the board examination. Since analysis and comprehension are the skills that can also be developed through mastery of Mathematics it is also an option for those who love that said branch of learning, but for those who are not quite familiar with the nature of Accountancy studies, it is not right to directly associate Math with Accounting just because of the word “count” in it and the numbers that you see on worksheets.