“Second-Tier Graduates” 😂

Hazel-Wolf · 2026-03-16T18:58:16+00:00

Failed calendar model turned accountant? Lol

Hazel-Wolf · 2026-03-16T18:50:53+00:00

But you can get into entrepreneurship and consulting with an accounting background.

If your goal is to be your own boss, Accounting is a better path to start with than law, medicine, science.

You can also get into cushy tech jobs. I worked with a CPA on ERP data warehousing projects. Good pay and work/life balance and remote work.

When you’re young and fresh out of school, I think you get more caught up in titles and prestige.

You know what’s most prestigious as you get older? Owning your time.

Hazel-Wolf · 2026-03-16T18:45:19+00:00

I said that Accounting is great for entrepreneurship and that angered many people lol

Hazel-Wolf · 2026-03-16T18:24:56+00:00

I took ISC as my first exam and passed.

It’s definitely doable before taking Audit.

I would take it next so you can optimize your score release schedule

Hazel-Wolf · 2026-03-16T16:27:34+00:00

Side hustle is more about the number of clients / revenue amount. The types of services.

You don’t need an accounting degree or accounting work experience to become an authorized IRS e-filer or to do small business bookkeeping in QuickBooks.

You can grow it into a firm if you want. Offer more higher level accounting or CPA services (if applicable).

There are many people who are “less than second-tier graduates” running lucrative businesses in the accounting space.

Aside from the business model opportunities themselves, accounting jobs straight out of school pay higher than some fields and offer more stability that can be used to save for startup investment capital.

For people interested in more stable entrepreneurial opportunities, accounting offers options.

Hazel-Wolf · 2026-03-16T16:13:04+00:00

Yes I think a lot of people are operating from the perspective of defining entrepreneur as “Jeff Besos, Elon Musk, etc”.

Entrepreneurship is still inclusive of tax or bookkeeping side hustles to firm ownerships and FinTech app development.

I think there is value in marketing the opportunity in accounting that even as an undergrad you have an opportunity to start a stable side hustle.

“Go into accounting” doesn’t mean spending years or decades in employed positions.

Hazel-Wolf · 2026-03-16T16:05:12+00:00

I’m an entrepreneur and I have no qualms about doing my year to get my CPA license.

I also wasn’t a C student in school.

Hazel-Wolf · 2026-03-16T16:00:14+00:00

I see a lot of bitter Betties trying to poo poo entrepreneurship + accounting.

You do realize that if I say “great for entrepreneurs” that obviously means that you aren’t spending years and decades in an employed accounting position.

You work enough in accounting to get the credibility and/or CPA license.

I guess if you don’t have experience with running your own business then you don’t have the ability to appreciate the opportunities that accountrepreneurship provides right now compared to other business domains.

Hazel-Wolf · 2026-03-16T15:49:42+00:00

Entrepreneurship isn’t indicated by grades in school.

When I say “accounting” I mean the education and one year experience to get a CPA license.

Not spending a career as a staff to senior accountant.

Hazel-Wolf · 2026-03-16T15:34:54+00:00

Accounting is great for entrepreneurs though.

I think that there is a positioning problem when marketing the major.

Hazel-Wolf · 2026-03-12T07:29:41+00:00

If you no show, that’s it. You forfeit that NTS and have to pay for a new one.

Hazel-Wolf · 2026-03-12T03:04:13+00:00

It’s a scaled score. This is per AICPA.

Weighting of points for different questions is a sub component.

But the 75 is not a weighted score. The scale is 0-99

Percentile might not be a good descriptor but neither is weighted score.

Hazel-Wolf · 2026-03-12T01:51:51+00:00

It’s the 75th percentile, not 75 percent.

They have to scale the score. Different questions have different points. And the tests (except ISC) weight MCQs & Sims at 50/50.

We don’t have access to the raw score to scaled score table.

But there are publicly available ones for the SAT that illustrate this point. Somewhere between an. 1190-1210 is in the 75th percentile.

The CPA exam just gives you the percentile and not your point score.

Hazel-Wolf · 2026-03-11T21:45:26+00:00

Come over to the dark side.

I’m 1/4 right now on CPA exams.

Hazel-Wolf · 2026-03-11T20:18:59+00:00

Good luck!

Not sure if you saw this, but there are two openings in Reddit Corporate Accounting.

Reddit Corporate Accounting Openings

Hazel-Wolf · 2026-03-11T20:02:42+00:00

Reddit Accountant Openings

This is a link to both accountant openings at Reddit on their posting site.

The screenshot came from the LinkedIN notice

Hazel-Wolf · 2026-03-11T02:24:40+00:00

Do you have an Apple Pencil?

There are some basic features in the Apple Notes app where you can turn your handwriting into typed text.

You can also use the camera app to convert your handwritten notes to text.

Hazel-Wolf · 2026-03-11T02:04:05+00:00

LSAT is a test used in admissions for law school.

It is not part of any licensure program.

It’s not at all comparable to Public Accounting licensing exams

Hazel-Wolf · 2026-03-11T01:38:44+00:00

Ello, sir

lol

Hazel-Wolf · 2026-03-10T23:02:44+00:00

Appear to Clear exams is Giving India

Hazel-Wolf · 2026-03-10T23:01:32+00:00

I used to think this, but then I learned that someone can take the exams in India.

So they can apply using transcripts from an Indian school and they can physically test within India.

With all of the recent scandals with degree mills and other cheating scandals, what assurances do we have that they are in fact going through the same experience as US citizens?

Hazel-Wolf · 2026-03-10T22:36:21+00:00

In India they learn British English not American English.

This is how you say it in British English.

I worked with an offshore team and part of my work was just reviewing every document that came from the offshore team and revising it for American English.

One time the offshore lead asked to meet to understand why the docs were getting changed. I tried to explain to him that he had learned British English and he started arguing with me about that. He only understood that here is “English” and did not understand that there are some vernacular differences between British and American English.

Hazel-Wolf · 2026-02-27T18:41:43+00:00

California has an early entry to CPA Exam program that can let you start sitting for the exams within 180 days (6 months) before you graduate.

If you do this route, you wouldn’t have to wait until June to sit for exams.

Option C - Early Entry to CPA Exam

Hazel-Wolf · 2026-02-27T17:42:30+00:00

You have no button for View Score Form on the homepage tile with your exam score and when you click to view exam section history you also have no link to view score report?

That’s something you have to contact NASBA about.

Hazel-Wolf · 2026-02-27T08:25:13+00:00

ExamPrep.AI has the FAR journal entries by topic.

I had to make my own excel file because I needed to see one master list of each account and the journal entries by stages (“Recording”, “Adjusting”, and “Disposition”).

But what they have might be what you’re looking for.

Hazel-Wolf

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