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Texas Accounting Career Essay

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The University of Texas, home of the Longhorns, is ranked the thirtieth best college in the world and number one for accounting in the United States, which will give me the chance to further extend knowledge about the field of accounting. Getting into The University of Texas at Austin can be difficult because it’s a terrific school. They have high standards for all of their students and that’s why they are ranked so well among the other colleges in the world. “The average ACT score at U.T. is 28” while “the average SAT score is 1330 on the new scale” (By). Only about forty-percent of applicants get admitted into the college. Along with the high ACT and SAT scores, the mean grade point average of an incoming freshman is 3.71 on a 4.0 scale, …show more content…

“The best-compensated accountants work in the fields of securities and commodity contracts intermediation and brokerage and for the federal executive branch” (US). Twenty-five percent of graduate’s make fifty one thousand one hundred and thirty dollars a year. The other seventy make eighty seven thousand five hundred and thirty dollars. The best ten percent of accountants make up to one hundred and fifteen thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars and the lowest makes forty thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. I want to get a job in accounting directly after college for a big company and work my way up into the top ten percent as fast as possible because each year, the average income raises. Experts predict that the highest paid accountant will make upwards of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars a year by 2020.The highest paying city for accounting is New York City, New York. The second highest paying city is San Jose, California. Accountants are always needed, they are necessary anywhere there is money being spent and saved, every business needs someone to keep up with their money and control their finances. I hope to continue to work towards my dream of becoming an accountant by furthering my education in the department of McCombs at the University of Texas at Austin, the number one school for accounting. Although it would be expensive, that’s the school I’d like to attend because I believe that it is the best place for me to get myself to the upper percent of accountants as fast as

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