Should I major in accounting and information technology?

The question is what major would give you the skills that you couldn't easily learn by yourself. read more

Accounting is essentially a set of relatively static rules and processes that need to be applied uniformly without a massive degree of creative thought and requires a high degree of mathematical proficiency and understanding - its a profession. read more

To obtain an accounting degree, you will, at a minimum, be required to successfully complete courses in financial accounting, cost accounting, intermediate accounting, individual income taxation, state and local taxation, corporate income taxation, accounting periods and methods, accounting information systems and auditing, among others. read more

As a current Accounting major, Finance won't add much to your resume, while Computer Science opens whole other worlds to you. We used to say in our accounting classes that the Finance kids were the kids who couldn't hack the Accounting program, also, so there's that. read more