Hi GQ... I am surprised to hear that a masters in accounting program requires an undergraduate degree in accounting. Most of the programs I am familiar with do not... in fact they are designed around students who have a degree in an unrelated field.

I personally knew others at Ernst & Young who had gone to masters programs after earning undergraduate degrees in music, english and engineering.

The University of Southern California in Los Angeles is one of the top-ranked accounting programs. They are consistently ranked in the top five and their masters program is particularly well-known. I just checked their wesbite and they do not require a degree in accounting (or even in business/management).

The point of my rambling is you may want to double-check... or look into other schools.

You don't necessarily need a degree in accounting anyway. (A lot of CPAs are "accounting majors" but really have degrees in business administration with an emphasis in accounting). You might just take the accounting courses on your own to meet your state's requirements to sit for the exam. I'm assuming you have already taken some elementary accounting for your degree in business, so you could probably go straight to an intermediate-level class (maybe you'd need to bone up with some books first). With the exam passed and a few higher-level accounting classes with the business degree, I think that might be enough to get on with a local firm, if not one of the big four.