Which major is harder? Accounting or Finance?

cbreeze
Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:16:48 +0000

I will guarantee that very few finance majors really make a great living at it.



Tell that to all the Wharton finance majors who are laughing all the way to the bank working at IBs and hedge funds and in investment management firms; plus all the MBA students (including a lot of accounting majors)wanting to do finance at business schools.

All Wharton students have a BSc in Economics but a majority have finance as their concentration.

Accounting is looking at the past, finance is looking in the future.Looking into the future is infinitely harder; more risk = more rewards.

Perhaps at the lower level, accountants make more, but at the highest level, finance trumps accounting.