Exhibit (j)

                          CONSENT OF ERNST & YOUNG LLP,
                  INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We consent to the references to our firm under the captions "Financial
Highlights" in the Scudder Blue Chip Fund's (the "Fund") Class A, Class B and
Class C Shares and Institutional Class Prospectuses and "Independent Registered
Public Accounting Firm" and "Financial Statements" in the Fund's Class A, Class
B, Class C and Institutional Class Shares Statement of Additional Information,
and to the incorporation by reference, in Post-Effective Amendment No. 28 to the
Fund's Registration Statement (Form N-1A, Nos. 33-17777), of our report, dated
December 22, 2004, on the financial statements and financial highlights of
Scudder Blue Chip Fund in the Annual Report to the Shareholders for the year
ended October 31, 2004.

                                              /s/ERNST & YOUNG LLP

                                              ERNST & YOUNG LLP

Boston, Massachusetts
January 26, 2005