Allison Mott scored a 102 on her first college accounting test. The class average was a 60. That moment in a 500-seat lecture hall at Oklahoma State flipped her major from public relations to accounting and set up a decade-long loop through a big four firm, a burnout so deep she quit without another job lined up, two nonprofit roles that rebuilt her love for the work, a failed apprenticeship, and finally AMCPA, the full-service CPA firm she founded five years ago this September.