Is Accounting Right
For me?
Alondra Miranda
Rhetoric & Composition 1301
Joanna Hinojosa
Introduction
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Part Of the Business Administration College
Building behind the UTEP Library
10 Faculty members
Hardest major in the college of business
Background
• My understanding of accounting: Math & numbers
• What accountants do: “financial records of business transactions and
how to prepare statements concerning assets, liabilities, and
operating results” (The Princeton Review, 2014).
• “a rapidly growing profession” (The Princeton review, 2014).
Data Methods:
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Interview: Accounting Workshop At UTEP
Former Business Student at UTEP
Documents: Degree Plan
Site of Observation: Classroom of Workshop & Business
Lobby
What does the discipline of accounting
value?
• Clubs/ Organizations: the Accounting Society, Association of Latino
Professionals in Finance and Accounting (ALPFA) and Beta Alpha Psi.
• Scholarships
(Example: Scholarship for CPA Certification)
What is the Assumed
Knowledge?
• Intro to Business
• Math 1320 & 2301
• Business Communication
What is the knowledge/power?
• How can students obtain power? Leadership
positions, internships
• Do you have the knowledge to be a CPA? CPA
makes an accountant the perfect accountant
for a job
Conclusion
• Purpose of this paper: to decide if students
want to continue with the major
• Yes I want to study Accounting!
• High School Students benefit
• I learned a lot of things about accounting
• Primary Research Question: I feel more
prepared and confident
Works Cited
• Accounting Society. (2014, October 20). Accounting
workshop. Location: College of Business.
• Accounting Department. (2014). Accounting and
information systems website. Retrieved from
http://business.utep.edu/AIS
• The Princeton Review. (2014). The Princeton Review
website. Retrieved from
http://www.princetonreview.com/Majors.aspx?cip=5203
01&page=1
• Mathew, R. (2013). UTEP by the numbers. Retrieved
from http://research.utep.edu/Portals/99/proposaldev/orsp%20workshops/Spring2013/UTEP%20by%20the%2
0Numbers%20-%204%2010%2013.pdf
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