Diversifying accounting career commences with mentoring learners

Adrian L. Mayse

Adrian Mayse
  • Dr. Adrian L. Mayse, CPA is the creator of “When I Expand Up I Want To Be An… Accountant” and is the office chair and associate professor of accounting at Howard University.

In daily life we never recognize how our childhood molds us to be the particular person we are right now. I recall expanding up in the smaller town of Victoria, Mississippi, wherever my grandfather was a trainer, coach, business operator, and tax preparer inside of my group.

In deciding my vocation path, I went to the College of Mississippi thinking I would significant in pre-med/chemistry which adjusted to pre-pharmacy/chemistry.  After talking with a church mentor Georgia Nicholas, I improved my key to finance. I like to assume that viewing my grandfather and the dialogue with my church mentor had an impact on my everyday living.

My very first-time hearing about accounting was in superior school when a number of of my white buddies took an accounting course. The first accountant I understood was the trainer who taught the class who was also white. I thought to myself that this program and job was not for me.