Academic Strategies Career Plans Academic and Career Success

Academic Strategies and Career Plans:

The beginning of this undergraduate course in accounting was a relatively definitive moment and hectic period for me. This is primarily because of the need to create a balance between classes, career, family, and friends. The focus of the course is to help students understand and apply the conventional and theoretical principles, frameworks, and models for accounting and financial management. In addition, the undergraduate course focuses on helping students to develop their academic strategies and goals that would help them as they progress into degree programs. The major academic strategies I have gained from this course are study skills, management of time, and planning for the degree course. These strategies are crucial in enhancing student determination, retention, and success in undergraduate and graduate courses ("Academic Strategies," n.d.). As a result, these academic strategies provide essential support to students towards the achievement of educational and career goals.

My academic goal is to enroll for a degree course in accounting and financial management because of the importance of accounting and strategic financial management in the accomplishment of organizational goals. The course involves working with cost measurements and performance and risk in attempts to identify an organization's strategic challenges and develop the most suitable course of action and beneficial structures for responding to the challenges ("Accounting, Strategy, and Control," 2013). In essence the course will involve accounting, strategy, and control in order to understand a company's numbers and organizational role that helps in implementing its strategy and value creation.

The academic strategies I have gained from this course will enable me to achieve my academic goals because of the nature of accounting work. Generally, the effective application of company strategy and value creation is a process that requires appropriate skills, time management, and proper planning of career and academic studies. I will implement the academic strategies and goals through following a five-step approach that enhance my determination, retention, and success in this field. The five-step approach includes identifying my strengths, setting specific goals, staying positive throughout the course, being resilient, and creating time to recover ("5 Strategies for Academic Success," 2013).

My short-term career plan is to obtain a degree in accounting and financial management in order to play a crucial role in implementation of strategies to promote and enhance organizational success. My long-term career plan is to work as an accounting and financial consultant who focuses on enabling companies to achieve their goals through making their strategy functional. This long-term goal is influenced by the fact that there is a big difference between developing company strategy and implementing it successfully. In most cases, companies experience tremendous challenges in making their vaguely defined goals a reality. The course will enable me to drive companies towards their goals by promoting effective implementation of strategy through interpreting the strategy, breaking them down to small pieces, and making company goals concrete and measurable. This will be followed by the creation of a uniform and practical understanding of the strategy.