Objective: To provide students with a general understanding of multiple areas of accounting in order to prepare students for a career in public, corporate, or governmental accounting, or students who want to embark on a management career with a strong accounting emphasis. It is also designed to prepare students for graduate business and accounting programs.

A total of 150 semester hours of post high school work will be required to sit for the CPA examination in several states. For most students this will take five years to complete. Some students may wish to pursue an MBA to meet this requirement.

Administrator: Department Chair, Undergraduate Business Program

Requirements: 78 credits: in accounting, finance, business administration, economics, and mathematics

ACCT2060 Financial Accounting (3)

ACCT2070 Managerial Accounting (3)

ACCT3010 Income Taxation (3)

ACCT3040 Cost Accounting (3)

ACCT3510 Intermediate Accounting I (3)

ACCT3520 Intermediate Accounting II (3)

ACCT3960 Internship in Accounting (3)

ACCT4020 Auditing (3)

ACCT4510 Advanced Financial Accounting (3)

BSNS2170 Computer Applications in Business (3)

BSNS2220 Business Communication (3)

BSNS2330 Math for Business and Finance (3); or,

MATH2240 Elementary Statistics (3)

BSNS3030 Management Information Systems (3)

BSNS3410 Business Law I (3)

BSNS3420 Business Law II (3)

BSNS3510 Principles of Marketing (3)

BSNS3640 Principles of Management (3)

BSNS3710 Financial Management (3)

BSNS3810 Business Ethics (3)

BSNS3960 Internship in Business (3)

BSNS4690 Global Operations Management (3)

BSNS4980 Senior Seminar In Business (3)

ECON2410 Microeconomic Analysis (3)

ECON2420 Macroeconomic Analysis (3)

Two upper division electives offered by the Department of Business and Economics (excluding BSNS396O and BSNS496O) (6)