Is accounting considered a math subject?

lindbergh

lindbergh

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Accounting is a very broad subject. However, it mainly deals with identifying, recording, classifying, summarizing and interpreting business transactions that are financial in nature. This includes computing profit or loss, assets, liabilities, net worth, revenues, expenses, and everything related to business.

So, do you consider accounting to be a math subject because of all the computations being done?
 
I would still consider it to be a business class. I know that is how most universities count it also. I do understand that there are lots of computations. But, it is still very business related.
 
I consider accounting to be a business subject and major. It does involve some math of course but also involves knowing other things besides math. I know I used to be an accounting major and the highest math we had to take was business calculus and the professor admitted most business majors wouldn't really need to know half the stuff taught in that class. I know some accountants and most any math is done by a computer and they said it's more about being able to work on a computer and whatever program you may use like Excel and understand which formulas you need to input rather than using a lot of math.

I know a lot of my business related classes, not just accounting, involved some math to an extent which is why I assume all business majors are required to take up to business calculus.
 
Accounting deals with mathematics but it's not just about mathematics. If anything it applies various forms / mathematical practices to perform it's function. After studying accounting for quite some time there are so many aspects of it that apply to the business major or even in practice that it's pretty simple for most people to think of it simply as typing numbers in an adding machine but it is much more complicated than that.
 
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