Basically I found that most of the finance department marked that way (unfairly imo), and thus I steered clear of as much finance as possible. It felt like the rare people who did get distinctions and HD's had access to more resources and had an unfair competitive advantage (I found many people...
Yeh guess you could argue that for accounting jobs as well, where the vast majority of stuff relevant to your individual role is learnt on the job etc etc
Well on a practical level, most of the figures used in analysing companies etc uses accounting figures (in some form usually), a fundamental understanding or at least partial understanding would definitely be complementary imo... Perhaps since you've done accounting you have taken this for...
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Yeh i must agree M&A kinda sucked... Whilst it was a somewhat interesting glance into the IB world, it was run cruddily.
Everyone does accounting and finance, it's the way to go so do both. Finance is entrenched in accounting methodology to an extent, so a fairly fundamental undrstanding of accounting would definitely be looked at favourably by employers (is the general consensus I think). They check for...