>> Communication skills and interpersonal skills are very important.
You obviously need to learn the actual profession.
You need to be seasoned in accounting literature and accounting rules, and that comes with,
you know, when you start you sit for what we call the Certified Public Accountancy Exam --
the CPA exam.
You get licensed to CPA.
So you certainly develop a foundational basis in accounting in school.
And then once you start, you get -- you ultimately get licensed after passing a test,
and then a few years of working in the profession.
So that foundational basis is probably the first thing that you need to develop.
But also it's people skills.
It's interpersonal skills.
It's also the ability to work in teams.
It's the ability to work hard and have, you know, a positive attitude
with whatever you should face in your profession.
It's constantly changing, so if you don't have the ability to adapt and be willing
to learn things, then it's very difficult to succeed.
In terms of an advanced degree, such as a Masters or an MBA,
that's not necessarily required in the accounting profession.
Like I said, the big thing that you would like -- that you need to achieve once you graduate
from your undergraduate school, is to get licensed as a CPA.
That's required in a profession to -- at least in our firm -- to make Senior Associate.
And then I think in most firms to make manager.
So if you have any aspirations of continuing in the firm, you need to be a licensed CPA.
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