One of the responsibilities of a bank teller is to balance a cash drawer. An accountant or bookkeeper balances the books of an organization. An accounting curriculum includes financial and managerial accounting, as well as taxation and auditing. With an accounting degree, you can be the sole bookkeeper for a small business, part of a team at a large organization, or go into business for yourself.
An organizational management degree helps you learn how the organization of a company affects business practices. With teller experience and an organizational management degree, a teller may feel comfortable moving up the ranks in the bank to handle day-to-day tasks involving money or assume a managerial role.
A degree in finance or economics helps students understand the flow of money within the economy including the relationship between banks and people, banks and the economy, stock markets and investments as well as national and international economies. A person with a finance degree understands additional instruments that the bank sells such as securities and mortgages. You can continue working at the bank as an investment banker, or can search for a career in business.
While bank tellers must have financial knowledge, they must also have people skills. The skill set that allows a person to be good at dealing with people -- usually people who are distressed about their money -- is the same skill set that can put people at ease when they face challenging job situations. With a human resource degree, you can pursue a career in employee compensation, employee relations or staffing management. All three disciplines combine people and finance skills.