School of Business

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS - ACCOUNTING MAJOR

2012-2013 Catalog

The accounting program is designed to prepare students for careers in public, private or governmental accounting. An accounting internship program is an optional experience available to majors as well.

Degree Pattern for Accounting Majors:

General Education	48 hours*
Business Core Requirements	36 hours
Accounting Major Requirements	22 hours
Electives (Eleven of these hours must be in non-business courses.)	18 hours
	124 hours

 

Business Core Requirements (36 hours):

BC 104	Principles of Economics II	3 hours
IS 213	Mgmt Info Systems Concepts	3 hours
AC 223	Financial Accounting	3 hours
AC 233	Managerial Accounting I	3 hours
BU 255	Business Statistics	3 hours
BE 330	Business Communications	3 hours
FI 330	Fundamentals of Financial Mgmt	3 hours
MG 342	Principles of Mgmt & Org Behavior	3 hours
BU 353	Legal Environment of Business	3 hours
MK 360	Principles of Marketing	3 hours
MG 423	Operations Management	3 hours
MG 473	Business Policy*	3 hours

 

*Concurrent enrollment required in BU 099-Major Field Test in Business (No Credit)

 

Accounting Courses Required (22 hours):

AC 304	Intermediate Accounting I	4 hours
AC 313	Intermediate Accounting II	3 hours
AC 333	Cost Accounting	3 hours
AC 353	Accounting Information Systems	3 hours
AC 413	Auditing	3 hours
AC 423	Federal Income Tax Accounting I	3 hours
	At least one 500 level Accounting Course	3 hours

 

Electives (18 hours):

Electives must include a minimum of 11 hours of non-business courses. Non-business courses may include an additional 3 hours of economics and/or statistics.

*If Personal Finance is taken, an additional 3 hours of non-business courses are required.

A minimum of 62 hours of the 124 hours needed for graduation must be in non-business courses. For this computation, up to 9 hours of economics and 6 hours of statistics are considered to be non-business.