<p>What kind of math is involved in business courses such as Business Finance, Financial Accounting, etc? Is it difficult? I'm not very strong in math and continually struggled in high school, but still maintained low B's in math. Will I be alright in a business curriculum, or is the math truly difficult? I'll be starting at UF in the Fall and right now I'm an Economics major, but I heard there's a lot of math involved in the business school, so I'm really not sure anymore. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!</p>
<p>Corporate Finance and Accounting will not need more than basic arithmetic/algebra skills. If you're going into a quantitative finance program (financial engineering) or taking a course in derivatives, it will get more quantitative, but you don't have to take those courses. Actually, if you can do econ math, you're more than ready for the business school math, which only uses calculus and statistics at most (and maybe linear algebra but for more advanced courses).</p>
<p>For most financial accounting and corporate finance, just being able to add, subtract, multiply and divide is usually good enough. Maybe some statistics as Redhare mentioned, but for the most part nothing beyond that. Being comfortable in excel and with numbers is a plus though</p>
<p>"Being comfortable in excel and with numbers is a plus though"</p>
<p>excel?? You think that multi-billion dollar corporations are using excel to keep their books?</p>
<p>Obviously not as the record keeping system, but if you think excel is not an essential program in corporate finance & accounting you are very much mistaken.</p>