My mother was a bookkeeper. She made me take two years of accounting in high school. That and one college course in quantitative analytical economics (a.k.a. "engineering economics") has benefitted me greatly in life. That class was required when I was in college, early 1980's. But, there's more computer stuff to learn now, and there's only so much you can cram into four years. So, it's not a required class in engineering school anymore.

Most of her life, my mother said that every high school student should take accounting before allowing to graduate. Later in life she changed her mind, saying if everybody knew how to manage money, our economy would collapse.