High-schoolers take ‘AIM’ at accounting major

Program gives students a half-day exploration of college course of study

MIDDLETOWN >> The Connecticut Society of CPAs held a program at Post University for college-bound high school students, Accounting Is My Major during which 78 college-bound high school students from around Connecticut learned about the opportunities, challenges and rewards of majoring in accounting March 23 in Waterbury, according to a press release.

The program, which affords students a free half-day exploration of accounting as a major course of college study, provides a peek inside a day in the life of an accounting major and features an interactive accounting session, conversations with university accounting majors, alumni and faculty; discussions on preparing for college and a career and more.

“The certified public accountant has become the most valued member of the business advisory team,” said CPA Noelle Taddei, an associate professor of accounting in the Malcolm Baldrige School of Business at Post, in a prepared statement. “A major in accounting can lead almost anywhere — public accounting, industry, education, governmental work, relatively newer fields such as forensic accounting ... even the FBI,” Taddei said.

Formed by nine CPAs in 1908 at New Haven’s Union League Club, the group boasts a membership of 6,000 individuals in public practice, business and industry, government and education, according to the release.

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Post University accounting major Nicole Blum (white shirt) and accounting and finance double major John Gibbons (blue pullover with red shirt) help lead Middletown High School students through a sample college class on fraud prevention at the...