Accounting Program Requirements

Faculty

• Chelsea Dye (Chair)
• Charlotta Farr
• Dara Hoffa
• Jovana Sisovic

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Program Goals

The Accounting Program offers both a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting. Students who wish to sit for the Uniform Certified Public Accounting (CPA) examination will need to complete additional graduate hours in business and accounting. The learning goals for both the B.A. and B.S. Accounting programs are:

• Demonstrate knowledge of relevant professional standards and the regulatory environment within the core accounting areas:
  • Financial Accounting
  • Cost Accounting
  • Tax
  • Audit
• Use technology to facilitate and enhance accounting and financial reporting processes.
• Perform research skills and methodology using appropriate and relevant standards, rules, laws and principles required to make sound business judgments.
• Communicate clearly and concisely when conveying relevant financial and related non-financial information so that decision makers can make informed decisions.

Program Requirements

To fulfill the requirements for the major in Accounting, students must complete the courses outlined below and maintain a minimum 2.3 GPA in all coursework required by the program. Students are also required to complete the ETS Major Field Test in Business before they are eligible to graduate (exceptions may be considered by program chair when relocation or other conditions make completion of the test impractical).

Students who wish to qualify to sit for the CPA examination are required to complete additional graduate work in business and accounting. Students are encouraged to meet with their program advisor for specific requirements. Information on the MBA or MACC program admission requirements is found in the Graduate section of this catalog.

Prior to the spring of their senior year, Accounting majors may apply as early entrants to the MACC program. If accepted, students may begin taking the spring MACC program requirements during their final undergraduate spring semester. Thereafter, the student would continue course requirements in the MACC program as a graduate student.

Students must meet the university-wide graduation requirements in addition to the Accounting major:

• WCore or Honors College requirements
• 30 upper division hours
• 124 total hours

Undergraduate Business Core

Students in all business majors (with the exception some economics programs) complete a common undergraduate core designed to develop skills in all functional areas of business.

There are two components to the common undergraduate core: the lower-division requirements, and the upper-division requirements. Since many of the lower-division core requirements are prerequisites for upper-division core requirements, students should work to complete lower-division courses early in their programs. Upper-division core requirements should be taken when prerequisites are met. Prerequisites are noted in the table below.

 

Bachelor of Science in Accounting

Note: All students must complete 124 hours of coursework to graduate, 30 hours of which must be upper division (300 level or above). Students may need to take other courses to complete the university hours requirement. Please refer to the Undergraduate Degree Requirements section of this catalog for information about restrictions when completing a major and a minor or two majors.

Bachelor of Arts in Accounting

Note: All students must complete 124 hours of coursework to graduate, 30 hours of which must be upper-division (300 level or above). Students may need to take other courses to complete the university hours requirement. Please refer to the Undergraduate Degree Requirements section of this catalog for information about restrictions when completing a major and a minor or two majors.

Recommended Plan of Study for Accounting (B.A. and B.S.)

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