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Advice Computer Science/Accounting

  • 20-03-2017 1:17pm
    #1
    CareerAdvice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭


    Hi,

    Any help appreciated here and apologies if it's in the wrong forum.

    I'm currently a qualified accountant but thinking of going back to do a computer science conversion course in UCD through springboard.

    I'm just unsure if it's what I'm looking for, as an accountant the thing I mainly enjoy is figuring out problems/how to do tasks more efficiently and then designing excel sheets to fix this. I have minimal interest in analyzing balance sheets/P&L statements but making new processes and problem solving and to an extent Management Accounting is ok.

    I've always had an interest in learning to programme and am currently signed up to Treehouse working through Python and enjoying it. I believe Python is more efficient for me to learn than excel Macros. It's just got me thinking that accounting is almost the right area for me but I'd be much happier just programming as in people giving me problems, what they need to happen and letting me figure out and design the solution.

    My concerns are maybe I have a very naive view of what a programmer does and is a computer science degree and potentially masters the best way of achieving this? I don't see any specific programming courses and computer science seems to contain large elements of programming along with general computer theory which seems would go hand in hand.

    I think being an Accountant with Computer Science and programming ability would be very beneficial in itself but I'm hoping just to go into the IT industry. The UCD conversion course offers follow on to do a masters also I believe.

    Hoping to hear from anyone that's done something similar or Computer Science graduates to see what there job entails now if possible.

    Thanks


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