notMichaelJackson

Science is a much more painful subject to major in that I once suspected, so I'm going to give the business field a spin. The thing is that next year I have to take courses in accounting and economics. I've never taken an accounting class, and my high school economics course was basically a semester of memorizing the glossary at the end of our textbook (and I've forgotten a good deal of the terms ). Are these two classes going to be difficult?

Ernest Sparks

Staying awake is the hard part.

Ern

Ronin

word.

Born Free

Nah I'm mathematically challenged and I sailed through accounts on my course, I loved it to death I could have sat and worked out trial balances and profit and loss accounts till the cows came home.

Economics was good I loved that too. Better those two than statistics I still don't know how in the hell I passed it cause that was murder.

Relax they are two fun subjects imo.

wildernesse

I loved the Accounting classes I took, and I'm also not endowed with a working math section in my brain.

I hated my econ class (but that was more because the professor did not make any sense--to ANYONE).

In both cases, my enjoyment of the class was majorly tinted by the quality of the professor. My first accounting prof was amazingly gifted, and could have made watching paint peel a wonderful experience. My econ prof was very intelligent, but not very adept at teaching.

--tibac

RawData

Where I went to school, these classes were taken by seniors (Engineering school). Math up to that point: Differential Equations.
Show up once a week for tests, sleep through class, still get A.
RD

Kinross

Neither should be too difficult. If you can balance a checkbook you should be ok in accounting. Econ is a little more difficult but not too much. I am assuming that we are talking intro classes. The situation changes greatly in a higher level course.

Ensign Steve

I am an accounting major, and I am one sick puppy who loves accounting and econ classes. If you are good at math, you will be good at both types of classes, even though there isn't much math involved in either. Accounting requires a lot of arithmetic, and economics requires the ability to read a graph. I think it's just that left-brain people grasp it really easily.

Economics is a very philosophical field. Are you taking macro or micro (or both)? Macro economics is a lot of theory about world economies and how they are similar and different, and how they work together. There's a whole lot of "in theory" stuff, and a little "in practice" stuff. Micro economics is about making economics decisions within households and firms. You learn why people make the decisions they make, even if they don't know why they make them. Ie: how can I get the most pleasure out of my dollar? It's also about graphs. Lots and lots of graphs.

I think if you like math, philosphy, and coffee, you will do well in those classes. Good luck!

notMichaelJackson

ES,

I'm taking "Intro to Microeconomics" in the fall, and will probably take macroeconomics in the spring.

Ensign Steve

Taking micro first will make macro very easy. Used to be that macro was a prereq for micro, not because the one builds on the other, but the one is just more complicated than the other. I took both at the same time, and macro felt like pre-school compared to micro. Good luck to you!