Economics or Accounting?

ferryboat10
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:33:29 +0000

“With accounting you’ll end up spending A LOT of your life doing very arbitrary number crunching. Also, there’s very little opinion or big-picture-type decision making in accounting. It’s all just balancing bank rec’s and stuff.”

Haha. Maybe if you’re a bookkeeper. Accountants isn’t input/output. Public accountants are paid to analyze, research and offer their opinion. In the private sector, financing, costing systems and internal controls are critical in operating a business.

To the original poster, a Masters is not a terminal degree in Economics. You’ll likely have to pursue a Doctorate for great jobs. You could major in Economics, get a Masters in Accounting and likely be close to meeting the CPA requirements of your state.