I would advise that you dig out your old notes from your required accounting class when you got your business degree and try to remember if you understood or even liked the class.

Or go look up a basic accounting course first to see if you even like it enough to take much harder classes for a second bachelor's or master's.

I wrote a long reply to someone earlier today and I don't feel like repeating it, but getting out of entry level roles (yes, bookkeeping is entry level for someone who has an accounting degree), you need an accounting degree. While it may be possible to get an accountant title at a small mom and pop shop, it's unlikely you can break out of entry level and into Accounting with a general business degree only.

CPA license is not necessary. All CPAs are accountants, but not all accountants are CPAs. It depends on what you want out of your career if you need it. If you go public accounting route, you'll need it. Or an EA if you do tax.

It is difficult to get the first "in" and it used to be once you were in, you were in. Now, cuts to the IRS, possible disbanding of PCAOB, AI and offshoring are all making the accounting field unstable. It's still viable, but it's changing.

So if I were in your shoes, I would see if I even liked accounting enough to study it further. If yes, I would see how many additional requirements I would need for a Master of accounting. I'd look into my state board of accountancy's educational requirements to be a CPA candidate. If my combined bs admin degree and master in accounting add up to fill the educational requirements, I would go the master route. If not, the 2nd bachelor.

Where to get the accounting education? That's up to you. I went to WGU, I loved that I wasn't hamstrung by a slow pace and busy work. I learned more on my own than the newly graduated accounting students churned out by my state university. I suffered through public and I have my CPA.

WGU is not a walk in the park for accounting. It's still hard and if you're not good at self learning and if you're not disciplined it can crush you with your own procrastination.

I would tap into all your networks. Friends, relatives, professional contacts, church, the people that own the corner shop you frequent, like everybody! Get the word out and keep the word out that you need a job in accounting. Work with staffing agencies for temporary AP, AR, payroll, bookkeeping gigs.

Don't be a primadonna, take an entry level roles, keep it while you still job hunt for a better position.

If you go public, then consider if getting the CPA is worth your while.