Hello everyone!

As everyone can probably tell, I'm from Chicago. I graduated from Northeastern Illinois University with a BS in Accounting.

I mainly joined this forum because I'm going back to school for a Master's and also, I've recently come across an awesome employment opportunity. Both of these things, though, have kind of created a significant amount of self-doubt in myself as an accountant.

I'm going to be completely honest -- I feel I remember almost nothing I studied in college and even though I earned a 3.0 GPA, most of my financial accounting courses I only got a C in. I've been working as the sole accountant for a small business for 2 years now (well, other than our tax accountant), really hate the people I work with (even though the pay was excellent out of college), and finally got a chance to work for a friend in an industry I have a real passion for, but I'm constantly doubting my ability. I'm hoping going back to school will help me remember some things and I hope not to fail miserably if I can't remember.

I feel like working for the current business I'm in has, in a way, sucked a lot of what I learned out of me. Since it's such a small company, instead of reviewing financials and trying to get more experience in interpreting and providing the owners with advice, I'm asked to just run the reports, pay bills/cut invoices, and do a bunch of non-accounting tasks. I'm just worried I won't be up to the task to really help out this next company I actually WANT TO work for.

I just was wondering if anyone had any similar experiences, maybe some good topics/resources to review to get my brain working again. I remember a time I actually kind of enjoyed being an accountant -- when I worked for a small firm, I actually felt like I was learning something that would be useful to me, since I plan on starting a non-accounting related business in the future.