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human
ELI5: What is the difference between Public Accounting and Private Accounting?

Do they serve different industries or is it simply a different kind of company they are doing accounting/financial services for? Is there a difference in education/degrees for Public vs. Private?
gpt
It's more who you work for and what you have in your head as your main goal.

Private Accounting, you are there to protect the company you are working for, to ensure they remain within the law.

Public Accounting, you are making sure that other people are remaining within the law.

This is a VERY generalized view of it.