<p>Say an accounting major is qualified, will they hire them or do they go for finance and economics majors?</p>
<p>I-banks hire people from all kinds of majors, from finance to accounting to engineering to English. They care much more about other things than your choice of a major.</p>
<p>they care more about how willing you are to bend over and take it.</p>
<p>This is what my school's career guide says, written by a banker:</p>
<p>"It’s somewhat of a myth that banking is about Finance. Any finance required is covered in the core class. It’s accounting that bankers need to really load up on. Advanced Financial Accounting is painful but probably the most useful class I have taken."</p>
<p>At the same time, though, it seems like it's not good to go too deep into accounting (I mean for work experience, not as a major). So you don't want to make it seem like you're more interested in an accounting profession than a finance profession. Although accounting skills are useful, it's hard to go from audit to IB. And it's hard for CPA's even to make the switch.</p>
<p>whats the best way to make that switch from auditor to ib? is it through an mba?</p>
<p>Bottom line is they don't recruit from many schools that have accounting majors. Any business will love great accounting skills, but not someone with only an accounting education (you went to Harvard and took accting at DeVry nights).</p>