I can't help you out on the Accounting science thingy, have no idea what it is.
Accounting starts off in the 34K-39K range but gets higher.
Finance/HR/etc. all start higher, but things like HR don't have the growth potential.
I was going to try and article for CA, but my grades were not up in the 3.5's and Sept 11th made all the firms cut their hiring big-time (75%?) in January 2002. Me, Mr. B grade competing with straight A students, yeah right, I'm SOL. Even some firms were calling oil companies for work for some of their students.
I was talking to some KPMG staff who were doing their audit of our company, one guy was unhappy, another girl was happy, it all depends. Expect to work 16-hour work-days for 3 years, accounting becomes your life. If you were to plot salary on a graph, CA's start low initially and shoot up high at a high rate(slope), while CMA/CGA start a bit higher and go up at a lessor rate. A CA is a very good marketing tool for a career, so many opportunities, and companies out there grab them up.
I think the pamphlet propoganda is that the average salary is over 100K, 5 years after getting their CA designation. I guess you have to be willing to pay the price for it.
I find accounting very boring, you just go through the motions. That's what it's like, every month, month after month accounting is the same thing over and over.
I'm thinking about switching careers, but that's me, there's lots of accountants who are happy with what they do.
Be sure to check out AIESEC career day every year at the U of C Jack Simpson Gym (around Sept/Oct?), they have all the CA firms, CMA, CGA, Oil Companies, Calgary Police, etc.
It's very helpful and you can meet some people there too! (plus pick up nice trinkets, like SMED Frisbees, plush Husky dogs, Ernst and Young globes, etc)
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