BS in Accounting (70–71 hours*)

This is a limited-enrollment program requiring departmental acceptance. Please see the information above and/or the college advisement center for information regarding requirements for appliction to this major.

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1. No more than 6 credit hours of transfer credit will be accepted toward the upper-division major requirements. No transfer credit will be accepted for the Junior Core or Integrated Management Core courses.
2. Demonstrate a knowledge of computer skills, including PowerPoint and spreadsheet analysis. Students may demonstrate PowerPoint and spreadsheet skills with either a minimum grade of B in an equivalent transfer course or a P grade in the following:
   I SYS 100 : Computer Spreadsheet Skills. (.5:0:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   I SYS 100 : Computer Spreadsheet Skills. (.5:0:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall Blk 1, Blk 2; Winter Blk 1, Blk 2; Spring; Summer
   DESCRIPTION:	Basic computer skills, focusing on spreadsheet and database programs. No technical background necessary.
   NOTE:	Fee.
   
   
   I SYS 101 : Computer Presentation Skills. (.5:0:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   I SYS 101 : Computer Presentation Skills. (.5:0:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall Blk 1, Blk 2; Winter Blk 1, Blk 2; Spring; Summer
   DESCRIPTION:	Basic computer skills focusing on developing presentations. No technical background necessary.
   NOTE:	Fee.
   
   
3. Complete the following prerequisite courses:
   ACC 200 : Principles of Accounting. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ACC 200 : Principles of Accounting. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	Independent Study also.
   DESCRIPTION:	Financial and managerial accounting principles. Basic accounting statements, processes, and management applications. Open to all students.
   
   
   ACC 310 : Principles of Accounting 2. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ACC 310 : Principles of Accounting 2. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   PREREQUISITE:	ACC 200
   DESCRIPTION:	Additional issues in financial and managerial accounting. Review of issues related to balance sheet accounts, performance evaluation and capital budgeting.
   
   
   I SYS 201 : Introduction to Management Information Systems. (3:3:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   I SYS 201 : Introduction to Management Information Systems. (3:3:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   PREREQUISITE:	I Sys 100 or concurrent enrollment during 1st block of I Sys 201 registration.
   RECOMMENDED:	I Sys 101.
   DESCRIPTION:	Using technology to solve business problems. Hands-on spreadsheet, database, and Internet software in a business context.
   
   
   M COM 320 : Communication in Organizational Settings. (3:3:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   M COM 320 : Communication in Organizational Settings. (3:3:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	Honors also.
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   PREREQUISITE:	GE First-Year Writing requirement. To be taken before senior year. Not for freshmen.
   DESCRIPTION:	Developing written and oral communications for professional organizations, including composing and designing employment communications. Incorporates oral presentations.
   NOTE:	Fulfills GE Advanced Written and Oral Communication requirement.
   
              : Honors Communication in Organizational Settings.
   
   

   Note: These four courses are used in determining admission to the undergraduate accounting program.

4. Complete the following required courses:
   ECON 110 : Economic Principles and Problems. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ECON 110 : Economic Principles and Problems. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	Honors also.
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   DESCRIPTION:	Strengths and weaknesses of markets and governments for solving problems of social organization or conflict, including policy response to inflation, unemployment, pollution, poverty, growth, etc.
   
             : Honors Economic Principles and Problems.
   
   
   MATH 119 : Introduction to Calculus. (4:4:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   MATH 119 : Introduction to Calculus. (4:4:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   PREREQUISITE:	Math 110 or equivalent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Introduction to plane analytic geometry and calculus.
   NOTE:	For students in the College of Life Sciences and the Marriott School of Management.
   
   
   Or
   MATH 112 : Calculus 1. (4:5:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   MATH 112 : Calculus 1. (4:5:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	Honors also.
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   PREREQUISITE:	Math 110 and 111 or equivalent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Differential and integral calculus: limits; continuity; the derivative and applications; extrema; the definite integral; fundamental theorem of calculus; L'Hopital's rule.
   
             : Honors Calculus 1.
   
   
   STAT 121 : Principles of Statistics. (3:3:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   STAT 121 : Principles of Statistics. (3:3:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	Independent Study also; Honors also.
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   RECOMMENDED:	Math 110 or equivalent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Stemplots, boxplots, histograms, scatterplots; central tendency, variability; confidence intervals and hypothesis testing involving one and two means and proportions; contingency tables, simple linear regression.
   
             : Honors Principles of Statistics.
   
   

   Note: Where possible, it is recommended that these courses be taken before entering the Junior Core. These courses must be completed before starting the Integrated Management Core or first year of the MAcc program.

5. Complete the following Junior Core courses:
   ACC 401 : Business and Accounting Information Systems. (4:4:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ACC 401 : Business and Accounting Information Systems. (4:4:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PREREQUISITE:	Admission to SOA.
   DESCRIPTION:	Inputs, processing, outputs, and files of several transaction-processing subsystems. Foundation for understanding internal control. Variety of tools used to design, create, or document accounting information systems (AIS) to achieve organizational objectives.
   
   
   ACC 402 : Cost and Managerial Accounting. (4:4:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ACC 402 : Cost and Managerial Accounting. (4:4:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PREREQUISITE:	Admission to SOA.
   DESCRIPTION:	Cost and managerial accounting topics, including production processes, product costing, cost behavior analysis with regression, differential costing, capital budgeting, throughput accounting, performance measurement, and budgeting.
   
   
   ACC 403 : Intermediate Financial Accounting 1. (4:4:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ACC 403 : Intermediate Financial Accounting 1. (4:4:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PREREQUISITE:	Admission to SOA.
   DESCRIPTION:	Financial reporting issues for balance sheet, income statement, and cash-flow statement. Revenue recognition, accounting for long-term assets, investment securities, and derivative instruments; consolidation.
   
   
   ACC 404 : Financial Accounting 2. (4:4:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ACC 404 : Financial Accounting 2. (4:4:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PREREQUISITE:	Admission to SOA.
   DESCRIPTION:	Accounting for receivables and inventory. Major reporting issues associated with liabilities and stockholder's equity. Introduction to computing basic and diluted earnings per share.
   
   
   ACC 405 : Fundamentals of Taxation. (4:4:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ACC 405 : Fundamentals of Taxation. (4:4:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PREREQUISITE:	Admission to SOA.
   DESCRIPTION:	Tax principles applicable to business entities and individuals; tax compliance issues; tax planning as part of overall strategic planning process for businesses and individuals.
   
   
   ACC 406 : Financial Statement Auditing. (4:4:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ACC 406 : Financial Statement Auditing. (4:4:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PREREQUISITE:	Admission to SOA.
   DESCRIPTION:	Introduction to framework providing financial statement assurance; integrating accounting and business knowledge with concepts from other disciplines such as statistics and law; framework applied to major business cycles, providing specific knowledge in financial statement auditing.
   
   
6. Complete the following Integrated Management Core courses:
   BUS M 341 : Marketing Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   BUS M 341 : Marketing Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring
   PREREQUISITE:	Acceptance into the Marriott School.
   DESCRIPTION:	Market segmentation, product service, promotion, channel, pricing strategies. Marketing principles in consumer and industrial markets, profit and nonprofit organizations, domestic and international companies, and small and large firms.
   
   
   BUS M 361 : Supply Chain, Services, and Operations Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   BUS M 361 : Supply Chain, Services, and Operations Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Summer
   PREREQUISITE:	Acceptance into the Marriott School.
   DESCRIPTION:	Control and coordination of materials and services from point of origin to final point of consumption to meet customer needs efficiently.
   
   
   BUS M 390 : Ethics for Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   BUS M 390 : Ethics for Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring
   PREREQUISITE:	Premanagement and Management 1 cores and full acceptance into the Marriott School upper-division major.
   DESCRIPTION:	Analyzing ethical dilemmas and understanding ethical theories as they apply to decision making in management.
   
   
   BUS M 402 : Managerial Finance. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   BUS M 402 : Managerial Finance. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
   PREREQUISITE:	Accounting junior core; major status.
   DESCRIPTION:	Overview of financial management issues including capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure/dividends, and long-term financial planning.
   
   
   ORG B 321 : Organizational Effectiveness. (3:2:2)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ORG B 321 : Organizational Effectiveness. (3:2:2)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring On Demand; Summer On Demand
   PREREQUISITE:	For Marriott School of Management majors only.
   DESCRIPTION:	Theories and concepts for creating effective organizations, e.g., individual, group, and organizational processes and human resource functions, including selection, compensation, and performance management.
   
   

   Note: If completing the MAcc, these courses will be replaced by the MSM Core.

7. Complete the following after Acc 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406:
   ACC 241 : Business Law in the Environment. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ACC 241 : Business Law in the Environment. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   PREREQUISITE:	Marriott School of Management major status.
   DESCRIPTION:	Introduction to legal principles and institutions affecting business.
   
   
   ACC 453 : Money, the Financial System, and the Economy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ACC 453 : Money, the Financial System, and the Economy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PREREQUISITE:	ACC 401 & ACC 402 & ACC 403 & ACC 404 & ACC 405 & ACC 406
   DESCRIPTION:	Applications of industry analysis and microeconomic principles in the macroeconomic environment that influences individuals and financial intermediaries that transact in money and credit markets.
   
   
   Or
   MANEC 453 : Money, Banking, and Business. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   MANEC 453 : Money, Banking, and Business. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring
   PREREQUISITE:	BusM 301 or accounting junior core.
   DESCRIPTION:	Economic analysis of effects of money, banking, and financial institutions on business decisions and aggregate economic activity.
   
   
   BUS M 498 : Strategic Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   BUS M 498 : Strategic Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   PREREQUISITE:	Major status; Management Integrated Core.
   DESCRIPTION:	Concepts, tools, and approaches to understand competitive forces and to systematically and consistently develop sustainable competitive advantages.
   
   

   Note: If completing the MAcc, Bus M 498 should not be taken.

8. Complete Marriott School exit survey online.

*Hours include courses the may fulfill university core requirements.

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