I came from science stream during school and matriculation and about to enroll in an accounting degree in IPTA.

Has anyone else transitioned from science to accounting on a degree level? If so, was it hard? And how is the future prospect for accounting? Share your experience and opinion, thank you.

This post has been edited by Smueles: Aug 9 2017, 12:05 PM

Speaking from my experience of studying for, and passing several ACCA papers while waiting for uni.

I was from science stream too (but I did some prinsip akaun for SPM).

Generally, its not hard. If you are able to grasp pre u science and math, and have decent english (but IPTA accounting may be in BM, idk), accounting generally shouldn't be an issue.

If you want to get a feel of what studying accounting is like, I suggest you create an account on opentuition.com and read up on ACCA notes for papers F1, F2 and F3 here http://opentuition.com/acca/

Have fun!

Hi!

I was a science transfer to accounting & finance. I was still a pure science when I did my pre-u. HAHA Basically I dont have any basic during first year of degree. I think it wouldn't be hard but you just have to make sure you can grap the concepts well at the beginning. When you have built a strong foundation, it will be easier for the rest of your uni life. The course like audit, financial analysis...u need to have a good understanding of accounting. Job prospect is considered good since many companies need to hire accountant.

You can do it!!

No problems for science to do accounting. I was a pure science student (physics, add math, chemistry, biology), and only saw my first debit and credit when I started ACCA.

you'll be fine