Should I study Accounting/AIS or MIS?

[johnnxiv]

I just transferred to a 4 year university, and I applied for MIS. The fall quarter will start soon, and I still dont know if I live MIS or not. I like Accounting too. I'm planning to get a master degree. My dream is to start my own business so which major is better for me?

The Cons pp told me about MIS: as I get older I will not able to update my skills like the young students, and I will get laid off and will be hard to find a different job because company like young smart students and salary is also low because they have no experience.

I'm so indecisive, I need to figure this out now before too late. Any advice would be really appreciated.

[Nightwalker83]

Make sure there is a need for the of profession that it is! There is no point in doing a course then finding yourself on the unemployment queue for years.

[johnnxiv]

There are need for both of these major. I just don't know which best for me if I start a small business in the future.

[Nightwalker83]

What are AIS and MIS?

[techgnome]

Tha'ts the first I've ever heard that about MIS ... By that regard, I should still be using BASIC and programming against 16 colors... your skills should be constantly updated and learning new stuff.
If you want your own business - depending on what it is - you may want to look at MIS. If you want to do more hands on programming, look at BIS. I've never looked into AIS, so I can't comment on it.

-tg

[johnnxiv]

Why type of small business can I do in the MIS industry?

[techgnome]

I think that's the wrong question. The RIGHT question should be: what kind of business were you thinking about in the first place?

MIS is Management Information Systems - it's geared towards managing IT... CTOs, CIOs, as well as VP-IT, etc... it's the management side of the house, with a concentration in Info Systems... so my thought is that if you plan on owning & running your own business, an MIS seems to make the most sense... may be it doesn't. I mean, if you're planning on open a floral shop, then maybe MIS is over kill.

One option is to go with a BIS (or AIS I suppose) and use that to get started... then go back for a masters and get an MBA. Shrug.

-tg

[TysonLPrice]

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[johnnxiv]

Should I study Accounting or MIS? which one is better for me?

[codesearcher]

if I may say, i think you are the one who can answer which is better for you. if you are good in accounting than MIS, then accounting is better but like Nightwalker said, its useless to go in accounting even if you are good at it if it will not bring you employment or good industry.

[TysonLPrice]

I just transferred to a 4 year university, and I applied for MIS. The fall quarter will start soon, and I still dont know if I live MIS or not. I like Accounting too. I'm planning to get a master degree. My dream is to start my own business so which major is better for me?

The Cons pp told me about MIS: as I get older I will not able to update my skills like the young students, and I will get laid off and will be hard to find a different job because company like young smart students and salary is also low because they have no experience.

I'm so indecisive, I need to figure this out now before too late. Any advice would be really appreciated.

The Godfather

You can act like a man!
What's the matter with you? Is this how you turned out? A Hollywood finocchio that cries like a woman? "What can I do? What can I do?"

[szlamany]

I've never seen that line in print.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbZEkFLXh9Y

My great grandfathers last name was Finocchio - and he was a barber. Wonder if he took any ribbing for that last name...

[TysonLPrice]

Here is the link...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068646/quotes

[dilettante]

There is no telling what you'll get from any random school offering an "MIS" degree program.

See http://education-portal.com/mis_programs.html for one of the better (though still vague) descriptions.

See the specific school's description. You could be getting anything from a management program with a computer emphasis, to a CRUD business programmer program, to even advanced box jockeying (so-called "IT" folks - the guys who fetch and carry PCs and run cables, self-styled "administrators").


But what you won't get is Computer Science, which is what you want if your goal is to work for software development companies. Sadly that label is just as abused, and at many schools "Computer Science" is just another synonym for MIS and its vagueness.

If the degree program doesn't require calculus it isn't a Computer Science program. Not that calculus per se is all that useful in general, but you'll be taking advanced courses like discrete mathmatics so for historical reasons calculus is seen as a "gateway."

[SJWhiteley]

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If the degree program doesn't require calculus it isn't a Computer Science program. Not that calculus per se is all that useful in general, but you'll be taking advanced courses like discrete mathmatics so for historical reasons calculus is seen as a "gateway."

I had to lookup the definition of calculus to see why it isn't all that useful in general...seems to me that computers were invented because of calculus: it's a tool that allows use to perform calculus in more and useful ways.

Calculus is used in a lot of industries, but because of the [few] people who actually have real degrees, it's hidden from most peons, so they believe that it isn't used or useful. Now accounting, on the other hand...only really useful if you have lots of cash and want to not have the government leech it.

[szlamany]

In 30 years of coding I recall using calculus only once - some kind of formula for an array with an identity line (diagonal) - basically 50% of an array cut along the diagonal.