Finance or accounting degree?

[dakotaj]

the reason i first decided to go for a general business degree is that i want knowledge of all areas of business, in order to manage a small business. I do not want to be an accountant (at least at this point). Actually, i want to go into a completely different field and i am getting the business degree to give me knowledge to run a business in my chosen field. However, i took my first accounting course, liked it, took another, liked it... And so on. Now i have 15 accounting credits with straight a's. At this point, i am really considering changing my degree program to accounting instead of having a general business degree with many accounting credits. Especially considering that it would only require 3 more accounting courses. But if i do accounting, i would not be able to do the courses/exams that i want to do in finance, management, and marketing. Since i am more interested in doing finance than management or marketing (and finance goes well with acc.), i am now considering doing a double major in accounting and finance. I think that having a degree in accounting and/or finance would open up more doors, but i am wondering whether the extra expense and time would be worth it. Considering that the double major would cost around $3,000 more and take at least 6 more months, is it worth it?

Any suggestions, thoughts or ideas are appreciated. And sorry for the long post.

what did you decide to do and any advice to someone in your same situation?