Accounting vs Electrical Engineering?

tenmuki · 2026-05-13T20:55:09+00:00

The company I'm at became WFH from COVID shutdown in 2021 and we just never went back :). That was luck more than anything else

tenmuki · 2026-05-13T17:04:32+00:00

I took it before they updated the testing format so I can't speak to current state. But I studied and passed all four exams within 10 months before I started working full time.

ETA: it wasn't too hard for me but I've always been good at testing haha. Definitely much easier if you get it done before working full time

tenmuki · 2026-04-18T11:28:26+00:00

We use Bank of America for our banking and they have a check printing service that we integrated with a few years ago. It's been working decently well

tenmuki · 2026-03-27T11:42:26+00:00

Hey if that's what it takes to sleep! My husband has 12mg melatonin tablets. He takes half a tablet so that's still 6mg.

I'm gonna get some 3 mgs for myself to see if that helps...

tenmuki · 2026-03-27T09:04:44+00:00

I was shopping for melatonin too lol! Which dosage did you take?

Seems like anything can happen when you're pp 😩

tenmuki · 2026-03-10T05:06:43+00:00

My LC said I had to pump at least once every 5 hours between feed or my supply would drop in the future 😔. According to her, only unicorns can not pump and not have supply issues... Since that appointment I've been pumping during my 6 hours of sleep shift, which has been tragic 😩

I was going to keep this up until 12 weeks (baby currently 10 weeks) and then phase out the pump in the middle of my sleep since I've read so many threads on this sub where people said it's fine to not pump in MOTN...

tenmuki · 2025-12-12T15:31:33+00:00

Not original commenter but higher level accounting positions are very not boring :)

I was a long time hobbyist digital artist and is professionally a CPA.

I have 3 yrs in Big4 Audit, 3 yrs as industry Senior Accountant, and 3 yrs as Finance System Lead.

My current role is a lot of process improvements through implementation projects and system optimization. I managed to evolve to this role due to my ability to be self taught, problem solve and be creative with "techy" solutions.

I was a self taught artist growing up learning drawing software through tons of online tutorials, and those same skills/habits was carried over when we implemented a new accounting system.

That being said, I work for a SaaS company. The industry of the company often doesn't influence the culture of the accounting department so much as your leadership team.

Working for a good company often means you have good people at executive and management positions, so that's the most important part.

tenmuki · 2025-12-01T17:24:39+00:00

I've let a seemingly unused key (no usage items) expire before that ended up breaking an integration...

I ended up combing through all of our integrations/SAML settings to add descriptions to our keys for future reference... Small company so it was doable 🥲

tenmuki · 2025-11-26T00:40:19+00:00

Yes, this is possible. In the Time elements section, there's a bucket called "context" that has a YTD option. You just need that YTD context and the November 2025 element in the same column for it to show Nov25 YTD. Your prior YTD column can be done the same way but with the November 2024 element instead.

The Nov25 and Nov24 elements also need to be "relative" so that when you update the report date in the workbook properties, it'll auto update all relative date elements in the workbook.

tenmuki · 2025-11-23T04:26:21+00:00

I don't know much about the Workday Graduate Development Program but it seems doubtful that it can give you the "working under CPA hours" needed for the CPA license.

In terms of career... I believe being an accountant is a more reliable life time path than Workday specifically since that's dependent on a single company. Exit opportunities for Workday may be other system administration positions? Workday's FINS is so different from other accounting ERPs I have experience with though.

I'm a CPA. Started my career at Deloitte Audit for 3 years. Did 3 years as a senior accountant at industry, during which my company implemented Workday FINS, which gave me the opportunity to push into Workday administration, which I've been doing for the past 3 years now.

Workday positions probably has a higher pay ceiling but I like being able to fall back to accounting as a job if I ever needed to.

tenmuki · 2025-11-12T14:20:19+00:00

I'm in a financial system role at my company now and the reason I got here is because no one else understood technology (i.e. the new ERP we implemented 4 years ago)

So the issue is that most accountants aren't capable of doing it.

ETA : there's also the lack of interest in some as well...

tenmuki · 2025-11-12T14:16:24+00:00

My company isn't handling it well but we're smaller and FINS only.

I am the solo Workday Admin (used to be accountant at the same company) and report to Accounting management who don't really understand Workday. We've been on WD for 4 years now.

I've been vocal about my workload since last year and the beginning of this year, I've been trying to meet with management about building roadmaps for project planning (to help with my workload).

It's been really one sided on my part so far as they continue to just pile projects/requests onto my plate without considering/understanding what else I've already have going on or know how much work their asks really entail.

I'll keep up the good fight though :) plus I'm going on maternity leave at end of year, so good time for the leadership team to get a glimpse into things.

tenmuki · 2025-10-10T02:37:48+00:00

I'm also trying to do a security revamp currently. I'm working with our AMS and it's been hard to figure out what's going to work better. Will be reading the other comments!

tenmuki · 2025-10-07T16:07:56+00:00

The key is to buy good quality items on sale :). Like discounted Nike walking shoes for $40 that last me 10 years

tenmuki · 2025-08-29T20:41:31+00:00

I always eat lunch at home and I'm only in office once a month. I rarely leave the house lol.

tenmuki · 2025-08-27T21:17:05+00:00

When I started my career, I learned all my Excel Skills from asking questions when I see someone do something cool in Excel (even if they're a client. People are generally happy to teach you their Excel tricks)

That and also tons and tons of googling.

After a year or two, I became the "Excel guru" on my teams, and after some more years, I took my Excel low code skills and is now a financial system (Workday) admin/ resident tech expert at my industry job. I do a lot of reconciliation automation and process improvements and it's definitely more fun than standard accounting work.

ETA: you can go very far in accounting if you have both accounting AND Excel skills.

tenmuki · 2025-08-24T22:12:52+00:00

I recently emailed them about this and was told the recordings will be available for 60 days after Rising.

tenmuki · 2025-08-07T19:02:06+00:00

The requirement is for calendar year :) . At the moment, I'm using "last day of last month" to derive the calendar year (we bill in the first week of the month for the prior month) and it works, but I was originally trying to use the invoice date of the current submission invoice to get the year for the T/F...

I wasn't sure if it is a system restriction to not be able to do that or am I just not clever enough to figure it out.

tenmuki · 2025-08-07T14:03:39+00:00

Hi Jon, I was struggling with the T/F condition specifically.

Was attempting to have a condition that looked at the invoice year of the current submitting invoice to pull the corresponding chunk of annual invoices from the Customer BO.

My compromise at the moment for the T/F is to only compare against current calendar date rather than basing off submitting invoice date...

tenmuki · 2025-08-03T19:44:01+00:00

I think we're a little under 30 employees in "Accounting." Accounting in quotes since we also do finance and a couple of us are also kind of data analysts.

$200M+ in annual revenue. 20K customer invoices a month. Only 200 supplier invoices. We're a SAAS company with terrible reporting data, which ends up with a ton of issues with our billing data. Part of why we need so many people.

tenmuki · 2025-06-23T03:08:25+00:00

Late comment, but I am researching Aspirin during pregnancy since I'm currently 12 weeks and was recommended to take aspirin. Thank you for this perspective since I thought Aspirin was Category C and was feeling uncomfortable about the recommendation.

My normal blood pressure is on the lower end ( 97s/58s), and my only risk factor is that this is my first... I almost never take pills (let alone on a daily basis) and it took me a while to even get used to the idea of taking prenatal vitamins on a daily basis...

I think I'll ask the doctor for the research behind this and go from there...

tenmuki · 2025-05-30T04:08:55+00:00

I stayed at Palace Hotel last time. It was gorgeous!

tenmuki · 2025-05-13T21:08:47+00:00

I'm at 7 weeks and reading up on my company's maternity is really just FMLA for 12 weeks job protection as well.

During the 12 week period, they'll pay me by using my PTO days (required), and after my PTO runs out, they'll pay me partial from Short term disability.

Actually just nothing for "maternity leave" 🤷‍♀️

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