Is accounting discipline a science or an art? Why? Support your opinion with references/sources and or experience.

Based on your original response to the above question and your classmates' responses that you agree/disagree with, (provide why!), I would like you to think of accounting theory, its assumptions, concepts, and principles. Do they make sense to you? Why? If you are currently working in the field of accounting, why do you think it is an important discipline to be learned by people who have any relation to a business? Do you benefit from learning financial accounting as an individual? Why? Explain.