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Business Administration: Accounting (B.S.)

The accounting major is designed with three primary objectives in mind: 1) to prepare students who intend to enter the fields of public or private accounting with an adequate background to become effective practitioners, 2) to educate students to become highly qualified professionals in great demand in today’s business world, 3) to help provide students with the necessary skills, abilities, and educational backgrounds to sit for the C.P.A. examinations. Please note that students wishing to become a licensed C.P.A must complete additional college coursework to total 150 credit hours in addition to passing the C.P.A. exam and completing one year of work experience.

Requirements

Required Courses Business Core

GBUS 140Introduction to Business

3
ECON 203Principles of Macroeconomics

3
GBUS 220Business Communications

3
ACC 224Principles of Financial Accounting

3
ACC 225Principles of Managerial Accounting

3
CIS 270Fund of Information Systems

2
CIS 271Practical Computer Applications

3
GBUS 280Business Statistics

3
FIN 300Principles of Finance

3
GBUS 303Quantitative Business Analysis

3
GBUS 325International Business

3
MKT 331Principles of Marketing

3
GBUS 344Legal Environ of Business I

3
MGT 350Principles of Management

3
GBUS 420Prof Development Seminar

1
MGT 498Mgt Strategy & Policy

3

Accounting Requirements

ACC 324Intermediate Accounting I

3
ACC 325Intermediate Accounting II

3
ACC 330Cost Accounting

3
ACC 400Accounting Information Systems

3
ACC 402Advanced Accounting

3
ACC 420External Auditing

3
ACC 425Federal Taxation of Individual

3
ACC 426Federal Tax of Business Entities

3
ACC 447Accounting Ethics

3
Any 300-400 ACC

3

** Additional Elective Courses or MBA (for students seeking CPA; 150 total hours are required to sit for CPA exam)