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Chair's Welcome

Welcome to the Department of Accounting! If you like working with people, problem solving and working as a team player, accounting is definitely the career for you. Set aside any stereotypes you may have of accountants sitting alone at their desks, merely crunching numbers. Nowadays, nothing could be further from the truth.

Today, accountants are much more than “bean-counters.” They generate and evaluate financial information and serve as trusted business advisors to a variety of clients. They serve consulting roles in many business decisions, including capital or investment decisions, financial information system design and implementation, and tax planning. You may have even heard the reference to accounting as “the language of business.” Today’s accountants need to be skilled “translators” of accounting information as they work closely with others to solve problems and to meet the challenges of the contemporary business world.

Accounting majors are currently in short supply, which leads to some very exciting opportunities for you. Recruiters from "Big 4" accounting firms, Fortune 500 companies and many other businesses with a need for this expertise are coming to campus with a willingness to make job offers early and to offer incentives, such as signing bonuses, to qualified accounting majors. Last year, more than 20 recruiters came to campus searching for accounting majors, for both internships and full-time positions—more recruiters than for all other business disciplines combined! And, choosing accounting as a major along with another business major (or minor) may allow you to select from among the best offers!

If you would like to learn more about the accounting curriculum, our laptop initiative, or opportunities in accounting as a career, I encourage you to talk with any of our accounting faculty or upper-division accounting students. Or you may want to attend a meeting of the Accounting Club as way to learn more about accounting careers and the kinds of skills so highly desired by employers.

If you would like to meet with me, please feel free to stop by my office. My door is always open (at least figuratively). I am also available by telephone at 726-8550 or E-mail at aroline@d.umn.edu.

Sincerely,
Alan C. Roline, Chair

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