Strong accounting skills are valued both by accounting and finance firms. Investment banks, private equity, and hedge funds have people with a good understanding of accounting or else they will not be able to invest. Hence, going with accounting has a limited downside. The only downside is that you may be too tied with the accounting rules itself and forget the economics reasoning. However, as long as, you have a good sense of economics and have strong accounting skills then the career path is good.

To find out what you like better, I suggest that you try some internships. Also, for finance, try investing with your own money, may be few hundred bucks. You will learn so much. You will see that investing is pretty darn difficult and that you really have to do a lot of learning and mind control.