<p>I'm doing a psych major, but I want to add a business major to this. The only problem is, my college offers both an accounting major and a professional accounting major. The professional one takes up all your units and is for people who want to actually become accountants (ugh)
But I want to study it just to give my psych degree a bit of a business edge for more opportunities. Will employees look down on an accounting major as opposed to a professional one?</p>
<p>no, not really. but if you want to make more money, people will go for the professional degree--the CPA which is two more years of schooling after college. so how are you looking to use this psych degree? what kind of careers are you looking into?</p>
<p>Accounting is a broad science that has evolved a lot over the past decade. Accounting is probably one of the most sought after majors by most employers, because of the diversity of business knowledge it contains and the level of understanding accounting students usually acquire about making smart business decisions. Most of your employers won't pay enough attention to whether your accounting degree was professional or not (unless you are looking to work in public accounting), but will just see that you probably have a good grasp on business concepts and strategy. I'm actually doing a psychology minor with a professional accounting major, and I think you're on the right track as I have found psychology to be an awesome combination with accounting studies.</p>
<p>Ok, I just want to secure a nice job. Eventually working in human resources or orginzational psychology (which is what I'm minoring in.)
The thing is, I suck at maths. I mean I passed it and everything, but I can't do advanced calculus and stuff. That's why I gave up economics; I was getting As in it but someone told me it gets harder so I dropped it. And they said accounting was pretty easy... is that true? How hard is the maths? Lots of equations and theoretical stuff? It's either accounting or marketing management which seems kind of useless.</p>
<p>Accounting math can get tricky when you are doing the financial calculations or valuing inventories.</p>
<p>only accountants believe the math they do are actually difficult. good example is ThomeStain here (no offense), he can't do calculus and all he's got left is accounting and useless managment.</p>
<p>and what do you people mean when you say business concepts? 4 Ps in marketing? hierarchy of an organization? supply chain management? market price vs. book value? APR financing? SWAP Analysis? Did you mean common sense?</p>
<p>abcboy70 makes no sense when he writes, and has an inferiority complex towards business majors (most notably accounting), so take his menial palabras with a grain of butt hair.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Hey it's all good, I value everyone's opinion. And it's not like I can't do calculus, I've actually never tried it. But looking at it, it looks like another language. I've done basic optimization and time series and recursive **** in high school and it was easy, so I dunno. But I can't afford to "try it" and find out I can't do it and waste a semester. Better do something I know I can pass, which sounds like accounting.
My last question is, how boring is it? Can it be interesting? Is it all numbers or is there other stuff too like theory, issues etc? My college accounting major has classes in company and commercial law which sounds interesting.</p>
<p>I make no sense or you have mental problem which affects your comprehension skill?</p>
<p>can't do simple accounting arithmetics (sorry, i can't bear to call it math), can't communicate. boy, is this america's future? or is it business students' future?</p>
<p>abc boy get a life. is just being a troll on a forum america's future? no. there a few select idiots who waste their time trolling like you.</p>
<p>I'm a troll because I remind you of the terrifying reality once you graduate as a Bsc Business (a science?). Sorry, then. I guess I must say Business is highly math intensive, highly academics, teaches stuff most people don't knows, and will provide you with skills sets that is un-replacable in the job markets. Making friends in here is obviously a priority for me here so I need to pretend like a business-person and cover the true reality of the business major, to make me or most other people here feel confortable about their major choice. Thanks for the advise.</p>