Accounting

The mission of this undergraduate program is to develop the knowledge, skills, and professional attitudes required to be a successful managerial accountant within manufacturing, retail, and service organizations; as well as to provide the foundation for graduate accounting or business education. Graduates will be prepared for careers as controllers, financial managers, cost accountants, budget analysts, internal auditors, general ledger accountants, among others. Successful graduates meet the educational requirement to take professional certification exams; such as, certified management accounting (CMA from the Institute of Management Accountants), certified internal auditor (CIA from the Institute of Internal Auditors), certified financial manager (CFM from the Institute of Management Accountants), and others.

Faculty advisors for this program are Professors Hwang, Khan, LaGore, & Okopny

The Program:

General Education

32-47

College of Business requirements

Accounting required courses:

ACC 296 The Accounting Cycle & Profession
ACC 340 Intermediate Accounting
ACC 342 Managerial Cost Accounting
ACC 344 Principles of Taxation
ACC 356 Accounting Information Systems
ACC 496W Financial Management & Controllership

Accounting elective courses: choice of 2 from a list of 16

Open electives

11-26

Total credit hours

124

For more information, see the Graduation Checklist, Graphic of the Program, Expected Course Schedule and the Undergraduate Catalog. For accounting, advising notes are available.

Permission to register for ACC500 level courses.

Offered by the Faculty of the Department of Accounting and Finance