How can I become a lawyer if I studied accounting and business?

Help me create my new job.

• Help me create my new job. I have started a part-time (20-25 hours, though I can work as many as I want) job at a small company which deals in restaurants (3 or 4), a couple of apartments, homes and small warehouses/storage spaces. Basically a small real-estate company whose cash comes from the restaurants and goes into more real-estate or restaurants. I have been hired on as a Comptroller/Controller. My assignment is to learn the current routines and come up with processes to staunch money loss and generally tighten up the ship. As an example: my first project is calculating the rents we are charging and comparing them to the expenses to make sure we are covering costs...It is a business currently run by entrepreneurs and I am being looked to as the professional (having studied accounting and finance) who will know how to impose order on the chaotic methods that have become entrenched over the last 15 years. Does anyone know of any good books or other resources that I can read through? I am currently in school and am using my professors as resources already, but they are as academic as I and what I need is to learn how to support, not stifle, the entrepreneurial creativity that has driven this business so far.

• Answer:

  Don't know what to tell you as far as external reading, but the most important thing for you to focus on is the "why" you are analyzing something - generally to help them make or save money. What is your focus goign to be on? Feel free to email me if you are going to be working on the restaurant side of the business (my day job is similar to yours, but strictly the restaurant biz).