I think there is an accounting gene running through my family
I had to laugh after getting off of the phone just now with my younger brother. He is in community college right now and finishing up his associate’s degree so he can move on and attend a 4 year university next year and obtain his bachelor’s degree. He’s done fairly well in school. He’s been on Student Government and is the editor in chief on the student newspaper this upcoming year and he’s not even a journalism major. So he’s doing pretty darn well and I have to brag just a little as the proud older sister.
So the semester has just started and he is taking his first accounting class. I have been trying to get him to go towards an accounting degree over a general business degree because I am a bit bias and think accounting is the way to go - job security and great pay - but he’s been fighting me a little on it thinking it will be boring and lots of math which I have explained that as an auditor I do none of that! Well, apparently we must have an accounting gene running through my family (my cousin and I are CPAs) because my brother is acing his in-class work in his accounting class. He is getting the correct answers to every problem presented and he is finishing the assignments in record time. Today his professor told him that he was the first student in 3 years to get this one accounting problem correct on the first try and he did it along with the other questions on the page in 12 minutes. His buddy called him 40 minutes later telling him that he had just finished and the entire class was still in there.
All I can say is he needs to quit fighting it and embrace the accounting gene. My poor future kids don’t have a chance. They will be accountants too at this rate. lol
