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Psychology or Accounting
Choosing a career is one of the most important decisions a person has to make in their life.
It is so important because that is what people will have to do to support their selves
throughout life. For the past ten years psychology and accounting were two of the top ten
potential career choices. According to the U.S. Department of Education, National Center
for Education Statistics up to 70,000 bachelor degrees in psychology were awarded, and up
to 30,000 in accounting all around the United States. These statistics show that psychology
is a more potential career choice than accounting. Most students at the time of choosing
psychology as a career think in the basic educational requirements, great job satisfaction,
and good salary.
The amount of time spent in both careers is almost the same, but psychology and
accounting have very different education and skills requirements. Most students choose
psychology as a career because it is about experiments and solutions for all kind of
problems that have a relationship with mind. Psychology is a field of the social sciences
that studies the human and animal behavior and focuses on how motivation, emotion, and
thought process function in relation to each other. In the other hand, accounting is about
the measurement, disclosure or provision of assurance about financial information
primarily used by managers, investors, tax authorities and other decision makers to make
resource allocation decisions within companies, organizations, and public agencies.
Accounting is all about money and businesses. It is nota secret that most people do not like
