No,
I’m not about to drop out of Ashford University, not only do I love the school,
I have only 4 classes left. But I am about to enroll in the Louisiana
State University
post graduate Certificate in Accounting. Even though I have basically
spent the last 6 months doing graduate quantitative methods, finance and
accounting I still consider this to be my weakest point in my business
education and skills. Likewise, the MBA pays off the largest dividends on
average in the areas of finance and accounting. Even if I do not end up
working in this area I really need to hone my skills.
The
certificate is really inexpensive and can be found here http://www.is.lsu.edu/ACCTCertificateProg.asp?nid=103&Level=CO&Online=1
And
being from Louisiana
I’ve kind of always been brainwashed into believing that LSU is the greatest
school on earth anyways. Which they are!
The
program requires 2 intermediate accounting courses at the undergraduate level
to enroll as a prerequisite. I’m kind of hoping that Managerial
Accounting and Managerial Finance from Ashford will sufficiently meet this
requirement. If not, no biggie I suppose, it’ll just add a couple more
courses to the program. I will say that after 6 months of doing this
stuff that even though I’m not good at it, I am starting to understand the
language and concepts a bit better. In other words, I know enough about
this field to know where I need improvement, which is a good thing.
I will likely be doing these course concurrent with my MBA courses however
these are more of a work at your own pace kind of thing. Also I will once
again be taking proctored tests which is never any fun whatsoever but I suppose
it is all part and parcel of being a tiger right? (That’s LSU’s mascot
for those who don’t know).