I’ve been talking about it for a while now and tonight I finally put my money where my mouth is. I paid the $50 application fee and applied to the LSU post graduate Certificate of Accounting program offered through the distance learning portion of the Ourso College of Business in Baton Rogue, Louisiana. I will be working on this as I complete these last 3 classes of my MBA program. The thing that makes this possible is the fact that these courses are completely self paced. One downer is that I will have to take the mids and finals at a proctored testing center, the kind that you have to pay between $25 and $50 per test at but other than that it looks almost perfect for me.
The certificate requires a bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college…check. It also requires at least 6 intermediate accounting classes…um…check…sort of. I took Managerial Finance and Managerial Accounting in my MBA program so I’m hoping that this will do. Otherwise I may have to remediate by taking 3 to 6 hours of intermediate accounting which would really stink, but at least I wouldn’t be getting in over my head.
I really haven’t decided to go into finance or accounting as a profession, but I do have a significant hole in my managerial skill set and I think this will fix that and give me something to show for my efforts. That plus the certificate program is dirt cheap and gets me half way to a CPA in Texas if I ever decide to go that route.
Lastly there is the nostalgia. As a kid I was a hard core, dyed in the wool Tiger fan, still am. I was raised in and near Baton Rogue, a town that bleeds purple and gold. Every kid from that area wants to grow up to go to LSU and my grandmother always wanted that for me and my brothers so this kind of fulfills that desire. Every member of my family on my dad’s side with the exception of the few who attended Tulane, attended LSU. So there you have it, how could I ask for anything else right?
Geaux Tigers!!!