Accounting vs Business Admin

[Yenisei]

Go for the accounting and get a CPA and you'll never be out of work

You don't need Masters just 150 hours. 

And you don't have to live in the state to sit for the exam in the state.


https://thiswaytocpa.com/licensure/state-requirements/

Best place, IMO or easiest is DC, pass the test and work: "1 year in government, industry, academia or public practice."

That's sort of what i was thinking as well. However my goal does not involve working in accounting but you never know what the future holds. On the last recession about a quarter of my department was laid off. 
I signed up with TESU for their Health Care management degree but I haven't talked to them yet. I work in a Hospital so it sounds like it might please the higher ups. 
My local community college offers a lot of accounting classes and one of the professors is really good at explaining things. He is one of the ones that got me thinking about accounting. First day of class he said that he attended that very same Community College then transferred to a Cal state school to complete his accounting degree. Then he went on to relate how his bro who worked as a waiter went on to get a History degree. 
After they both graduated my professor got a lot of job offers while his bro kept on working as a waiter for some years.

I learned something new, you don't have to be actually in the state to take the exam for the state (i.e. you can sit for DC's CPA exam in Maine). 

http://www.ais-cpa.com/become-a-cpa-with...ng-degree/

Also, you will need a review class to pass, and some count as accounting credit.

https://uwf.edu/continuinged/departments...w-courses/

So for example, with as little as 9 hours of accounting & UWF review class, you could sit for Alaska's CPA exam.   You can also add to resume "Candidate for CPA", which may open some job interviews.

https://www.gleim.com/cpa-review/blog/cp...te-resume/

With a good review class and effort, you'd be on par with anyone with a MS in Accounting.  

A lot of accounting classes don't teach you how to pass the CPA

An MS in Accounting is considered to have much more depth than the CPA. Having seen the Gleim CPA review material, I would not advise anyone to take the minimum amount of credits and a review course to sit for the CPA exams (although the latter is an absolute necessity). I'd really recommend the following (regardless of what your AOS calls for):

Advanced Accounting I and II (this is financial accounting)
Federal Taxation I and II
Auditing I and II (or Auditing and Advanced Auditing)
Cost Accounting I 

The BEC exam also has Macro- and Microeconomics as well as some Financial Management topics.