<p>Which of the business majors has least math? Marketing?
Should I even consider a business major if I hate math..?</p>
<p>forget about business, just major in engineering</p>
<p>well if you go into business...calc is usually a necessity for most curriculums... Marketing seems like a good fit.. which schools are you lookin at?</p>
<p>Then do marketing or advertising. Marketing or advertising usually requires less math than other business disciplines.</p>
<p>"Then do marketing or advertising. Marketing or advertising usually requires less math than other business disciplines."</p>
<p>Not really. Marketing involves quite a bit of math (especially if you're involved with market research and market projections), although the math is usually not as advanced as required for finance. </p>
<p>Advertising (which is not the same as marketing) does not require any math, but your school probably does not include advertising in their business school (I've seen it in communications and arts and sciences colleges).</p>
<p>In order to succeed in business, you're going to have to be comfortable with numbers.</p>
<p>marketing programs require you know some math, although it is less intensive then say in operations, MIS, or finance</p>
<p>at wharton, for example, you can separate the majors into various math tiers:</p>
<p>I. Simple Math (occasionally):
- Management
- Business & Public Policy
- Environmental Policy & Management
- Legal Studies & Business Ethics
- Healthcare Management & Policy</p>
<p>II. Math Intensive:
- Finance
- Accouting
- Statistics
- Actuarial Science
- Insurance & Risk Management
- Operations & Information Management</p>
<p>III. Varied levels of math depending on course selection:
- Entrepreneurship
- Marketing
- Global Analysis
- Real Estate
- Managing Electronic Commerce</p>
<p>Don't do accounting if you don't like math... the class title "(insert whatever name here) Accounting (insert corresponding upper division number here)" is a subliminal message that means, "lots of complicating math."</p>
<p>how advanced is the math in accounting?</p>
<p>wait for finance and operations management, exactly what parts of calculus and general math is used/required? what would you guys recommend to students who have credit for calculus (AB) but only remember the basics of it and not EVERYTHING? should they just move on or retake the math classes...</p>
<p>I disagree, accounting math is simplistic. It's a bunch of arithmatic questions. Lots of repetition, but not difficult.</p>
<p>dardcav, what is your major?</p>
<p>yea accounting is basic math really. Take an accounting course and you'll find it isn't as hard as you think. It's more attention to detail than anything else. I wasn't allowed more than a scientific calculator on my final.</p>
<p>The math involved in accounting as the introductory level is very basic; however, you have to be comfortable with working with numbers. As you move onto higher level accounting courses, the math gets a bit more complicated, but most of it is still somewhat basic. The complexity in accounting comes from dealing with large amounts of numbers, understanding and interpreting them and knowing what to do with them. In many respects, Accounting has much more in common with Law than it does with Finance. It involves a lot of analysis and understanding of an obnoxious amount of rules set by various standard setters. While the answer to a question may be simply to divide A by B, you may spend hours figuring out that A/B is the proper treatment.</p>
<p>Those who pursue accounting working with standard setters or in a teaching capacity tend to deal with extremely advanced math. A lot of the research that accounting professors do tend to involve substantial amounts of economic and financial theory.</p>
<p>Back to the original post, even though the introductory level stuff only requires basic math skills, you really do need to be very comfortable with numbers to study accounting. The numbers become you're language in accounting--if you're not comfortable with something as simple as a derivative, you're probably not going to be able to interpret the large amounts of data contained in a financial statement.</p>
<p>upper division accounting courses (usually numbered 300/3000 or above) are math intensive by foundation... you must be able to see the math that is there in order to understand the concepts and solve the rather complex problems... like this one for instance:</p>
<p>"The Grax Company's historical cost balance sheet showed equipment (at cost) of 20 million schillings on December 31, 2000 and 24 million schillings on December 31, 2001. The equipment was being depreciated over a five year period on a straight line basis. Equipment costing 4 million schillings was acquired on January 1, 2001. A full year's depreciation was taken in the year of purchase. The December 31, 2000 balance of equipment (at cost) restated to reflect December 31, 2001 purchasing power was 25 million schillings. What amount of depreciation expense should be shown in the general price level adjusted (GPLA) income statement if the general price level index was 120 at December 31, 2000 and 144 at December 31, 2001?"</p>
<p>This was taken from my International Accounting (an intensive May Term class) quiz on WebCT.</p>
<p>yea but even that problem isn't really math intensive. You're not talking hard formulas here. You're looking at the straight line method of calculating depreciation, which is a series of simple equations.</p>
<p>I'm in the same situation as Frederik's. I would like to major in Business, but I'm not comfortable with number-crunching and the like. I've been considering Marketing/Marketing Strategy and Advertising (firms like Fuelhaus, Roxburgh, and Landis). I would die in Accounting + Finance, basically. So, to the OP, Marketing and/or Advertising would be great choices. If you like Art and you have a very creative and original mind, then it's Advertising all the way.</p>
<p>i agree, accounting isn't as math intenisve as other classes. Although u need to be comfortable with higher level algebra, you don't need to know stuff from calculus. </p>
<p>Does anyone know how much math is needed for finance? i'm not that great at math but i am interested in finance..</p>
<p>"I would like to major in Business, but I'm not comfortable with number-crunching and the like. I've been considering Marketing/Marketing Strategy and Advertising (firms like Fuelhaus, Roxburgh, and Landis). "</p>
<p>Again, though, marketing is very numbers-oriented. If you're going to be consulting companies on their marketing strategy, you have to deal with market statistics and formulate projections (and partial pro-forma financial statements) for your clients' business plans. There's quite a bit of number crunching in addition to the creative stuff. Advertising is not numbers oriented, but that's not really a business field.</p>
<p>"Does anyone know how much math is needed for finance? i'm not that great at math but i am interested in finance.."</p>
<p>The more math you know, the better. For an undergrad finance degree (depending on your school), you can probably get away with just knowing Calc 1 and Stats, but finance is really nothing but math. I can't see getting through it without being comfortable with math.</p>
<p>"I'm in the same situation as Frederik's. I would like to major in Business, but I'm not comfortable with number-crunching and the like. I've been considering Marketing/Marketing Strategy and Advertising (firms like Fuelhaus, Roxburgh, and Landis). I would die in Accounting + Finance, basically. So, to the OP, Marketing and/or Advertising would be great choices. If you like Art and you have a very creative and original mind, then it's Advertising all the way."</p>
<p>Strongly consider going the brand management route. Companies like P&G, Kraft, ConAgra all pay well and assistant brand managers are recruited straight outta b-school. I'd much prefer to work WITH ad firms like saatchi and chiatday than work FOR them, since the pay is higher and hours are less hectic.</p>