I work for a large O&G company in town. I started in AP after getting my accounting degree. How we work (not sure about the rest of the industry) but they will only hire accounting grads as permanent employees and the rest of the AP jobs will go to temps. The accounting grads usually spend a couple of months in AP before moving into another area and possibly getting a designation if desired. We would not hire a permanent employee without a degree even for an AP role these days.
I have heard, but not experienced, that you still need oil and gas experience if you decide to get your CAPPA designation. And I would agree that production accounting in the industry is very specialized so most of the time some AR experience would be meaningless.
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