Which major is harder? Accounting or Finance?

creamgethamoney
Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:08:45 +0000

What I’m saying is that a finance major doesn’t necessarily prepare one for a finance career right out of college. There’s a lot of on-the-job training.
Because the similarity in curriculums help produce similiar skill sets, accounting majors are nearly as well prepared for finance jobs as finance majors.



LMAO and everything accountants learn in school = relevant to jobs right? WRONG. Fact of life is that almost nothing you learn in school will be used on your job. Schoolwork teaches you theory, but most of the application will vary once you’re actually on the job.

As for which one is better, they’re both roughly the same. If you’re average or have no connections/inclination to network whatsoever, don’t bother with finance because you’ll probably end up as a barista at Starbucks. Accounting is advantageous in that regard because even if you’re average in accounting you should get a job. However, accounting for me was very uninteresting as a profession. As an auditor/transactions analyst at a Big 4 firm, you’re basically on the support side of the interesting work and get stuck doing the due diligence, doing research on the transaction, etc. A finance guy is the one using that info to make decisions, and thus has the better job IMO. Some people really do like accounting though, so it depends…

As for which one is harder, accounting is probably harder for most. There’s so many regulations and rules and whatnot to keep track of and apply and on top of that, you have to understand and memorize lots of information which makes it hard. If accounting classes were just quizzes based on what you learned last class with no midterms and whatnot, it would be the easiest class ever because none of the rules/processes are that hard, but because you have to know all of that ish for cumulative midterms/finals, it becomes extremely challenging. However, if you do your degree in accounting, you’re probably guaranteed an upper middle class lifestyle compared to your finance/marketing friends (I’m probably going to major in finance btw, but sit for the Indian CA once I move to India)