Careers in Accounting

Accounting is often called the “language of business” because it provides the information necessary for making business decisions in many types of organizations. The ability to interpret and analyze financial information allows accounting professionals to become trusted advisers to companies and clients, helping monitor finances and chart a course for the future. The opportunities for accounting professionals are diverse and limitless. Accounting professionals in public accounting serve a large variety of clients and perform a number of services, including:

• Auditing and assurance
• Business valuation
• Consulting
• Environmental accounting
• Financial planning
• Forensic accounting
• Information technology
• Litigation support
• Strategic planning
• Tax planning

Whether you aspire to be a CEO or CFO of a corporation, partner in a public accounting firm, controller of a government agency, finance director of a charitable foundation, Special Agent in white-collar crime, owner of your own business, or university professor, the KU Master of Accounting degree is the degree for you.