Should I go for a Master in Accounting or Finance or just start working

Should I go for a Master in Accounting or Finance or just start working?
Age: 20 Going to graduate with a BS in accounting and finance Very very little work experienc (cashier for a yr and volunteered in a senior center for 1/2 yr).
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It´s your life, your choice!!


2
Get your masters! Businesses respect it more. Trust me, if you haven't gone to proessional school, you can get a job. However if you have a masters you can go a lot further, faster. I would choose accounting, it's more reputable.


3
if you plan on sitting for the cpa typically you'll need extra hours, but i would look to be hired on and then take night courses to obtain additional credits (if needed- we need extra in ohio) most of my college friends have obtained jobs and are going to start working while studying towards the cpa b/c of the 1 year we need of experience rule. finance was my other major and i didn't want to sell securites, get into banking or anything like that so i went with accoutning joe


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Why don't you do both.get a job in accounting and get your masters while you work.


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Nowadays.... Going for the master's (WITH AN MBA) IS essential. I know three CFOs (Chief Financial Officers) in some corporations and they would be nothing if they did not have their master's WITH MBA. Go for it. In the future (particularly in THIS field), you will not be sorry and with a masters WITH MBA, you will put yourself in a competitive field and not just in ann ordinary field... Believe me. Costs money... yes.. I went to the University with NO money and worked my whole way thru at the University and a small loan. I do not regret it in the least.


6
get some experience and work on your masters degree at night. You'll run into the same problem in a year or 2 with a masters degree and no experience --> and at that point the problem might actually be a bigger problem. no experience is worse the longer you wait. i graduated with a BS in accounting with minors in Comp Sci & Economics with little experience. I worked for a year and then found a company to pay for my MBA. The experience in that year got me the job and the job got me my MBA.