I find this to be an extremely strange attitude and I say this as an accounting major. Of course I'm biased and I don't think that the sort of bookkeeping most small businesses are going to do is actually that difficult - most of my classes involve pensions and stock options and things where most small businesses would not have to worry about that sort of thing. But I find it absurd that someone would try to go into business without so much as the ability to use Quickbooks or read a financial statement. There's a certain minimum amount of education about how business works that I think most people should bother learning before embarking on the financially risky prospect of starting their own business, and knowing a debit from a credit is one of them.