Banking, Finance & Insurance

First, there is probably no rule that one of these is better than the other. What may be better is that finance positions are like accounting. There will always be a need for counting and understanding what the numbers mean. Accounting and finance will continually have good futures. Second, management may have greater promotional possibilities but this can be equalized by the finance person who strives to be the COO since the CFO function is often an operations side of the house and operations are rewarded. Finance is still a support function, though. Lastly, management is an anachronism where there were many middle managers and they must be adaptable. Technology has shrunken the need for middle managers (usually recruited from management trainees). I concur with the prior posters that a specific skill like finance might be more fruitful but it is also one that is very hard to rise to the top of the organisation.