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What is Finance?
Finance is the study of the optimal allocation of scarce financial resources. Finance professionals:
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What is Accounting?
Accounting has been described as the “language of business.” Accounting is the study of how businesses track their income and assets over time. Besides preparing financial statements and recording business transactions, accountants engage in a wide variety of activities including computing costs and efficiency gains from new technologies, participating in strategies for mergers and acquisitions, managing quality, developing and using information systems to track financial performance, and deciding tax strategy. BYU Marriott accounting students not only are ranked highly academically but also are very highly regarded by accounting firms—including the Big Four. With this reputation, the program is very competitive. |