If you want to take the course training, you should pay the tuition, otherwise you should not pay the tuition. You might as well buy some self-study materials.
I don't know much about your major, but since many people can get in, so can you. Everything depends on you.
Correspondence is definitely no problem if it is a nationally recognized college.
Accounting certificate, you should pay more attention to the examination time of this thing on the website. If you want to contact an accounting firm to do odd jobs, people just want you. Every place is different.
Education and certificates are necessary conditions. Whether you value it or not, you should take the exam.
Everything is difficult to do, even if you don't get on the right track in the end, we don't regret it, do we?
Don't be confused, everyone started to get confused there, and I was very painful at first. Now that I have graduated from the self-taught exam, you will be fine.