Career Change to Accounting: TESU or WGU?

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I recommend taking the accounting sequence at a local cc in this order:

Financial accounting
Managerial accounting
Intermediate I
Intermediate II

Don't go by the course numbers, go by the name and description.

The reason: I have read the course descriptions for some of the credits that transfer into the TESU acct degree (such as SL), and I don't think they are equivalent. Since they are not equivalent, you won't learn what you need to know to be a successful accountant. It might be OK for another business major, but not for an accounting major. I discussed this problem on another thread:

http://www.degreeforum.net/general-educa...ng-ii.html

Please see my comments there.

All of this is doubly true of you want to go for a CPA license.

I know this is an older post however for anyone who does see this thread in the future I just want to SECOND everything tesu-acct-student said in the post. I can stress the importance of getting some "Butt In Seat" courses for accounting in. This goes for Online classes as well. You can see from my signature what I have taken in CC and outside of CC. I also plan to take 2 accounting courses from SL. SL's Financial Accounting comes into TESU as Intermediate Accounting I which is kind of a joke but I am going to use it to finish out the degree plan. I 100% Plan on going back to Oakton CC and doing Intermediate Accounting I from that school in the fall. I have probably learned way more stuff from the Financial Accounting, and Intermediate Accounting II courses I have taken at a CC then the 2 UL courses from Study.com. In order to truly know what your doing and not constantly have to look stuff up I would recommend at the very least take you Financial Accounting, Intermediate Accounting I/II at a school. Managerial/Cost Accounting and those are more geared towards cost factoring and stuff that I really just never want to do ever. I am taking my Midterm for Intermediate Accounting II this Sunday and it will show me where I stand in the accounting world. I feel I have been prepping for this good and shouldn't have any issues, however this teacher has been known for her hard tests.

Side Note: I would be willing to bet money that anyone who gets there degree in accounting from using all "Test-out" style course could not pass the CPA exam without very intensive studying which would lead to a large amount of time you could have just spent taking the courses. Also there is a large amount of changes coming in accounting shortly so a lot of material is going to need to updated.