What are the differences between marketing and finance?
futurefootballer27 asked:
I’m trying to decide between marketing or finance as my major, could someone shed some light on the pros and cons of each, and the major differences. I’m torn between the two and would like to know if there are things about each that I”m not thinking of.
I’m trying to decide between marketing or finance as my major, could someone shed some light on the pros and cons of each, and the major differences. I’m torn between the two and would like to know if there are things about each that I”m not thinking of.
Tags: Finance, Pros And Cons, Pros Cons
May 25th, 2010 at 11:35 am
Marketing is one of the easiest business majors that makes the most money for the work you but in. You also get to be creative and meet new people. However if you really don’t like dealing with people and brown nosing, and selling thing it will suck for you. You also have to write a lot more then in finance.
Finance is really challenging but I really enjoy it. In away you do get to be creative and find new arbitrage opportunities. You learn a lot about what’s going on around you in the financial world and there are a lot of great opportunities to work in the environment you like where in an office like corporate finance or is sell like investments. Down side it teaches you that people are greedy and self serving. That to make it you have to look out for yourself.
however most CEO come from either marketing or finance.
May 27th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Marketing is easy, but from what I have heard, you may be able to branch off into marketing whilst having not majored in it, if you have enough experience within the finance industry.
Finance is where it is at. Overall it is a thorough area of study, and a majority of the parts are easy enough to cope with if you put your mind to it. The subjects I have done have been appropriate to the different areas of investment banking you can branch off into, eg, derivatives, corporate finance, FOREX.
Maybe you should consider accounting as well, since finance and Accounting go hand in hand. A vast majority of CEO’s have backgrounds in accounting.