What's the difference between a finance major and an accounting major?

Difference between 'Accounting and Finance' and 'Accounting and finance management'?

• Looking to do an 'Accountancy' or an 'Accountancy and Finance' course in university next year. However, I do not always find universities that offer the course but when I do, instead of it being the actual course 'accounting and finance' I was always seem to see the course 'accounting and finance MANAGEMENT' either there instead or next to it.If that makes sense...

• Answer:

  . 1. In college, both are likely to teach the same thing, though names may be different. 2. If you are interested in finer distinction, you may say 'finance management' is 'applied finance'. 3. In finance, one talks of theory part, concepts and methods(Need of finance, sources, methods of raising, Debt-equity ratio, etc.). 3. In 'finance management', one also deals with various techniques of financial analysis: - Project Appraisal(Technical, Commercial, Economic, Financial, Managerial Competence feasibility) - Project evaluation techniques: Internal Rate of Return, External Rate of Return, Net Present Value, Pay-back method, Discounted cash flows, break-even point, etc. - Ratio analysis - Valuation of shares. - Functioning of stock markets, etc. 4. There is a good article on the subject at the following site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_finance .