<p>Accounting is not necessarily that hard, its just boring. And Tetrishead compared the five majors to a general business administration program, not an accounting program.</p>
<p>Business Administration might not be easy at your school(Which school do you go to by the way?) but it is definitely the easiest business major compared to finance and accounting. The original point made about gen business administration majors is that many of them picked business because they had no idea of what they wanted to study or what they wanted to do after college, and business administration is a fairly safe pathway to a halfway decent job.</p>
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Are you talking about tier 3 schools? In most good schools, business is not regarded as the easy way out. Although I do see what you are talking about.
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Generally schools that have solid business schools have very good undergraduate programs, which (for some reason) does not translate in other majors. I suppose at some point the business schools had a role in shaping the undergraduate program, like at CMU. I'm not talking just about tier-3 schools, I think in general if you went through middle of the road (50-150 in rankings) schools that don't have a strong graduate program you'd see weakness in both the core courses and the required courses.
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Accounting is way harder than any of those.
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Without a doubt some accounting courses are tremendously difficult, but finance and accounting are presumed to have a large workload both in the intricacies you have to explore and memorize and the solid math knowledge you need. A general management program is a much different matter. I'm a big fan of accounting as a major, even though I'd personally never major in it, and the amount of work you have to do for it is one of the reasons.</p>