Recommended Spec for Accounting Student.

 

    You need a laptop or a computer that can do your accounting and bookkeeping fast. Fast accounting means less time spent on a job and more time collecting money. Searching for a laptop is a smart move so if you are going to be an accountant, you will spend almost the entire day working on one so why not you grab a laptop that can eat large amounts of data an do calculations as soon as possible. If you can execute those tasks on QuickBooks or Excel just a few seconds faster all the work over an hours will add up to minutes, and that can add to hours  and even more over the course of the week. So, less time spent on the job and more time either making more money or getting more clients.

    Most laptops have way too much power for accounting software. So as long as you make sure yours has enough RAM and SSD juice on it you’ll be okay. Most laptops do if you don’t cheap out on one. It’s also smart to make your workspace as comfortable as possible since you will be staring at the screen and your fingers glued to the keyboard the entire day and of course getting the best bang for your buck.

DISPLAY

    Full HD is a no exceptions. You will need it for your multitask and to have much space available on the screen to see more rows, columns, less need to scroll down a document. 

KEYBOARD

    A large keyboard with dedicated F keys & a numerical keyboard if possible. It’s impossible to find a numerical keypad on a 13 inches laptop but you can buy an external one. 15 inches laptops already have numerical keyboards. 

CPU

    Any modern processor released within the past 5 years will be okay. Don’t worry about it. Just make sure to Avoid Pentium or Celeron or MY  and processors from AMD that don’t have the big “RYZEN” label all over. 

RAM

    At least 8GB. This is what will make the difference when performing calculations on huge spreadsheets & databases

STORAGE

    Just as important as RAM. Laptops can have HDDs or SSDs. SSDs are standard in 2020. You need to make sure to grab one because SSD means fast reading/writing speeds, which means fast data manipulation, which means opening those big large 100MB spreadsheets with all macros up the wazoo in 1 second. Not just opening them but closing, saving, moving them around among tons of other benefits. Just get one or keep using your old rig.