Finance or accounting degree?

[kimaya24]

My friends hubby works in Accounting. He has his Bachelors and is in his early 40s. He makes $140,000/year. I know CPAs that make the same and OHHHHHHHHHHHH SOOOOO MUCH more during tax season. Accounting is said to be a bit more difficult than a Finance degree, so if you are ANY good at ALL at Accounting, I would encourage you to go for it. I'm considering Finance, myself, and if I end up being good at Accounting, I'll get my Masters in it.

I took accounting at a vocational school my last 2 years of high school (10+ years ago) and I got straight As; I don't know how because I really didn't understand it and thought it was soooo boring (then we did most of the work by hand on that green ledger paper...yuck!!). That's part of why it took me so long to go back to school because I didn't know what to major in and I didn't like accounting in school. Then I got a job in the accounting department of the credit union I worked at and for the first time accounting made sense...and I liked it

Then when I took my first college accounting course I understand what was going on because I could relate it to my work experience and the practice was done on computer instead on paper which I like much better. That was when I knew accounting was right for me. My opinion is that studying accounting and actually working in accounting is different, you might hate taking the classes, but like doing the work hands on. Right now though, I'm taking Advanced Accounting I and I really like it, it's challenging, but the thing is to work on it a little bit everyday...I love it when the numbers add up right