<p>I honestly don't know what career I want to do. I've been flipping back between accounting and any other major that appeals to me.</p>
<p>Can I study accounting and become an actuary? Although I read that studying finance is better for actuary.</p>
<p>I found the following on beanactuary.org, but I'm still skeptical. I still don't understand how hard the math is for the actuary exam. There are nine exams, right? The number of exams you pass, is your payscale. Be</a> An Actuary - Ask an Actuary</p>
<p>What's the math like? Is it like engineering math, like vector calculus and Calculus 4? I checked the actuary exams, but the tests seem more like logic and probability instead.</p>
<p>Would passing all CPA exams be harder than passing 3/9 of the tests series?</p>
<p>If you want to be an actuary study actuary science. Finance is not good enough (I have a finance BBA and am A MBA/Finance student). Accounting is not even close.</p>
<p>The only other logical route is mathematics.</p>
<p>Yes you can, however, you’ll need to take a lot of math. Its actually only the first few tests that are math heavy, the rest are more business-oriented and accounting will help you there. But again, you should definitely minor in math so that you can complete the VEE requirements and to understand the quant nature of the job. So yeah, major in accounting if you want, but take as much CS/Math as humanly possible and self-study like a ■■■■.</p>
<p>Not for most people, especially because most people are terrible at math, and the CPA exam has literally no math on it, while the actuarial exam has, like, math on it. Calc 1 is BY FAR the hardest course of a finance major’s undergrad, so I would say majoring in finance would do nothing to prepare you for such a thing as being an actuary; if anything it prepares you for being lazy. Accounting wouldn’t prepare you at all because there’s no math in accounting.</p>
<p>Yes, you can study accounting and become an actuary. The accounting coursework will not help you for exams but you can prep for those on your own. The accounting degree will give you options in case you decide the actuarial field isn’t for you.</p>
<p>my brother, is planning to go on to the acturial path but to be on a safer side he is studying economics, so he can atleast end up with a degree that is relevant. however, he is studying a dual major which is BA in math and economics also. According to him this would be the best path towards success in the acturial field. since it contains, finance(insurance), statistics and prob, calc, etc and all mostly focus on math/economics background.</p>
<p>I’ve noticed a lot of good business schools offer actuarial science options. You would still get a degree in accounting, but you can take actuarial science-oriented classes at a lot of universities that don’t offer it as a major.</p>
<p>Majoring in accounting alone will not give you everything you need to ace the actuary exams, but you can certainly major in accounting and become an actuary.</p>
<p>if you want to be an actuary, why not just study that? I know there are many schools that people have said that have it as a major.
A couple that I know of and are near the top of the list are Univ. of Iowa and Drake University</p>
<p>One advantage of NOT majoring in actuarial science is that another major can offer you alternatives if you decide the field isn’t for you. Quite a few in the field state that the actuarial science major is too confining and you are better off with a more balanced major. You can search on this forum for threads about this. They come up all the time. </p>