Accounting

What You’ll Study as a Business Administration-Accounting Major

If you choose to concentrate in accounting, you will complete general education requirements in your first years. Between general education and accounting courses, you will take a total of 55 credit hours. 

In your first two years, you complete liberal arts or general education credits. In addition, you’ll take courses like Principles of Financial Accounting, Computer Applications for Business, and Principles of Macroeconomics. These prepare you for your concentration in accounting.

In your last two years, you might choose courses such as Management and Organizational Behavior, an overview and history of management followed by discussion of the business environment, ethics, and global markets. Or you might choose a general survey of marketing, including consumer behavior, functions, channels, and institutions. 

Further, you’ll choose three hours among courses such as International Social Entrepreneurship. This course has a special focus on the application of microfinance as a uniquely effective empowerment tool in poverty-stricken areas of the world. Comparative Economic Systems is an analytical and historical study of principal economic systems in the past and in the modern world. 

For another six hours of credit, you will choose among courses that suit your interests.  In Advanced Accounting, you apply accounting theory and principles to specialized accounting areas. Auditing presents the principles and practice of internal and independent auditing.