Unlocking the Future My Accounting Career Plan By C. Lyman August 2001

My Career in Accounting  My Career Vision  My Lifestyle Goals  Personality Traits  A Few Career Possibilities –Accounting Clerks & CPA’s –Lawyers, Doctors, Farmers, CEOs  My Goal  Education & Training  Work Experience  My Skills  Credits

My Career Vision  I would like to become a Business Teacher  Or a Certified Public Accountant (CPA)  I like working with numbers, money, and people  I would like to work as an accounting clerk to help me earn money for school

My Lifestyle Goals  Live in a small community  Earn a good income  Work with people  Help others to learn  Work with youth

My Personality Traits  I am outgoing & friendly  I am trustworthy & dependable  I like to solve problems  I am creative  I have good communication skills

A Few Career Possibilities  Accounting Clerks –Two years of high school accounting –An associate degree in college –Work as Accounts Receivable/Payable Clerk  CPAs –College degree –Pass CPA test –Work for a large company

More Career Choices  Lawyers, Doctors, Farmers, CEO –May not do accounting directly –Need to know about accounting –Should take an accounting class in high school or college –Will need to make business decisions  Accounting Teachers –College degree in Business –Minor or classes in accounting

My Goal  Take accounting in high school  Work in the office of a local business  Graduate from high school with a 3.8 GPA  Attend college & earn an Associate Degree  Graduate from college with a Business Degree  Take classes in Accounting  Get a teaching certificate  Teach in a rural community

Education & Training  Taking high school Accounting  Learning spreadsheets & other computer applications  Plan to do School to Work in for a local accountant  Plan to go to college at USU in their Business Information Systems program

Work Experience  Secretary for Youth City Council  Worked as a cashier at Safeway  Treasurer for FBLA  Farm laborer—tractor & livestock work  President of youth church group

My Skills  Will graduate from High School next year  GPA of 3.76  Taking Accounting I & II  Member of FBLA  Active in Youth City Council

Credits  Guerrieri, D. J., F. B. Haber, W. B. Hoyt, R. Turner. Glencoe Accounting — Real World Applications & Connections. Glencoe McGraw-Hill. Woodland Hills, CA   Robert Hill