Accounting Major
(B.B.A)

Requirements (Note: Parallels the existing major in Business Administration)
College Core Requirements 50 credits
Business Core Requirements 33
Supporting Courses Outside the Major 6
89 credits

2.5 Requirement (Note: Uniform across all majors within the BBA degree program.)

A minimum average grade point of 2.5 is required in the six courses listed below to be formally admitted to the Accounting major. Until completed, a student’s status as a major in Accounting will be provisional. It is strongly recommended that the six courses be completed by the end of the sophomore year.

BUAD 201 Principles of Financial Accounting
BUAD 202 Principles of Managerial Accounting
BUAD 221 Principles of Management
BUAD 231 Principles of Marketing
ECON 251 Principles of Macroeconomics
ECON 252 Principles of Microeconomics

Accounting Major Requirements 24 credits

The following five 3-credit courses:
BUAD 301 Intermediate Accounting I
BUAD 302 Intermediate Accounting II
BUAD 303 Cost Accounting
BUAD 304 Personal Income Tax
BUAD 402 Auditing

Plus three additional 3-credit courses chosen from the following:

BUAD 305 Accounting for Not-For-Profit Organizations
BUAD 306 Fraud Examination
BUAD 401 Advanced Accounting
BUAD 404 Advanced Topics in Income Tax
BUAD 407 International Accounting
BUAD 444 Business Law II

Free Electives 15 credits

Total Degree Requirements 128 credits

Other Policy Restrictions (Note: Parallels MIS major restrictions.)

Accounting majors may earn a concentration in another business discipline (i.e., Finance, International, Management or Marketing). A concentration is defined as 1) four courses above the principles level that are 2) not part of the Accounting major. Accounting majors may not double major in Business Administration.

Senior Comprehensive Examination (Note: Uniform across all majors within the BBA degree program.)

The BBA Comprehensive Examination utilizes a case study format. It provides teams of students with an integrative group learning experience and tests technical competencies, problem solving and analysis skills, an awareness of ethical issues, communication and interpersonal skills, and quantitative skills. The case also requires the team to consider international and intercultural ramifications. Students participate in an oral team presentation using presentations software before a panel of faculty members. During the presentation students discuss their results and recommendations to the case project they worked on in BUAD 446 Business Policy. A question and answer period immediately follows in which students respond to questions from panelists. Each team must also submit to the panel their original written and graded case report together with a revised version. The panelists evaluate the entire team as a group and determine whether the team passes or requires further remediation.

Advanced W (Note: Uniform across all majors within the BBA degree program.)
Students must demonstrate writing proficiency in a compiled portfolio of three accepted papers from department courses. For Accounting majors, at least one of the three papers must be in an Accounting course.