I majored in hotel management in Canada. Can I take an accounting certificate if I want to switch to accounting? What do you need to do?

In Canada, when recruiting accountants in large companies, you will generally look at your education background, major and the number of accounting courses you have taken. Because after they recruit you, they plan to arrange for you to take the CPA exam in the future, so if you are not an accounting major, it is difficult to enter a big company. When I was studying for an MBA in America, she went for an interview and wanted to be an accountant. The company refused to accept her because she missed an accounting course.

Because there is a threshold for CPA registration. On the application of certified public accountants in official website, you can check the requirements for the application of certified public accountants in various places in NASBA.ORG. Take New York State for example. New york requires a bachelor's degree or above, with 65,438+050 credits, of which 33 credits must include accounting courses such as financial accounting, cost accounting, tax law, auditing and accounting research. The average undergraduate education in the United States is 1.20 credits, so many American undergraduate graduates don't have enough credits even if they major in accounting, so some people will specialize in master's degrees. If you don't want to go to school, you can also choose some community colleges and take 30-credit courses.

If the undergraduate major is accounting, it is generally not difficult to enter a large company even if it does not meet the requirements of certified public accountants. You can take more courses in your spare time to make up for it. In any case, when big companies recruit, they all hope that you can be admitted to CPA in the future.

However, in Canada and the United States, accounting is a very scarce profession. Without relevant professional qualifications, it is not difficult to start working in a small company run by Chinese. With so much work, it's easy to find. However, if you want to go deep into the accounting field, want to go to the top, or enter a big company in the future, you still have to get a diploma again. You can study some community colleges while working to make up for the lack of courses.