<p>Is this a good combination for consulting and business school? Accounting gives you good skills to know how to analyze businesses and guarantees you a job. Math allows you have some skills that demonstrates you are analytical which is required in business nowadays.</p>
<p>personally, I wouldn’t see how math is relevant. I mean, yes there is math in business, but for the most part, it’s not going to be the math that is focused on in a math major…I mean, I could see how if you took math classes relating to specific finance classes or statistics classes then that could be different, but pure math? I woudn’t think that’s too relevant.</p>
<p>I also don’t see how minoring in math will help you. If you really want a minor to accompany your major in accounting, I would recommend either computer science, for consulting jobs, or statistics. Statistics is used a lot in many fields especially in auditing.</p>
<p>I’ve heard that economics is a pretty good double major with accounting.</p>
<p>Harry Markopolis, the whistleblower who reported Bernie Madoff’s investment scheme to the SEC on five different occasions (without response from the SEC) over 8 years, proved how the scheme couldn’t be legit with mathematical modeling. I think there will be a future for a few very bright students with accounting and math backgrounds in the future in governmental regulation (at least there should be!).</p>