# finance jobs that don't involve sales

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**Created:** [June 19, 2006, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finance-jobs-that-dont-involve-sales/361299 "2006-06-19T15:15:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Azov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Azov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azov)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finance-jobs-that-dont-involve-sales/361299/1 "2006-06-19T15:15:46Z")

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What are some finance/banking/credit related jobs that require a bachelor’s degree, but don’t involve sales? What about a loan officer?

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**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finance-jobs-that-dont-involve-sales/361299/2 "2006-06-19T15:22:08Z")

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Lots of them. Most companies of any size have their own finance department. People there could do things ranging from accounts payable and receivable to analyst jobs that figure out opportunities to cut costs or increase revenue or budgeting. Those jobs require a degree for analyst or management jobs and most of them require no sales whatsoever. As a matter of fact, most of them don’t deal with outside clients at all.