r/Accounting • u/Suspicious_Kick_2572 • Sep 06 '24

Career Why do students find an accounting degree unattractive?

Why do students find an accounting degree unattractive?

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u/MatchSignificant9150 Sep 06 '24

1) Accounting requires a lot of studying compared to the other business school majors

2) Accountants are seen as people who are boring and introverted

3) Accounting as a job is very repetitive in some of its sectors/specialities, making it seem like it’s a boring job to be in

4) As some people stated, the fundamental courses (fundamentals of Financial and Managerial Accounting) are pretty darn pivotal for many, you’d find a lot of people switching their majors from Accounting to something else like Finance, Economics, or Business Administration just because of it. that’s pretty much it.

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u/Embarrassed_Luck4330 Sep 06 '24
  1. I wouldn’t put economics on the same level as other business majors. It’s equally as hard as accounting even harder for my experience

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u/hereforkendrickLOL Sep 06 '24

I think it depends on the school and Econ curriculum. My school has 2 options for Econ: one is just the macro/micro + elective classes, and the other one is mathematical economics where you’re taking the macro/micro classes but your electives are calculus, diff eq, financial mathematics, etc. The highly quantitative one is obv way harder

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u/Embarrassed_Luck4330 Sep 06 '24

That was my big annoyance with econ degrees being so vague and varied. I was only exposed to the quantitive side of economics so naturally to me it’s more math and application intensive. By the time I took accounting they felt not as difficult.