Bachelors Degree in Accounting
Program Description
- 27 general education credit hours
- 55 core business curriculum credit hours
- 30 accounting major required credit hours
- 16 elective credit hours
The bachelor of science (B.S.) in accounting is designed to provide students with the core knowledge, skills, and tools necessary to successfully enter the profession of accounting. The accounting curriculum will allow students to explore and appreciate the career opportunities in public accounting, corporate accounting, and other related areas. The program is also designed to offer the student a general, diversified business background that is significantly important to the accounting professional in today's technology driven, global business environment. In addition to the accounting major core courses, the elective credit hours available in the program allow students to focus their study in additional accounting courses that are coordinated to provide coverage of the topics that students are expected to know for the C.P.A. and C.M.A. examinations.
The degree requires a total of 128 credit hours. Transfer students must take at least 18 credit hours of accounting at Webster University to earn this degree.
Program Curriculum
Core Business Curriculum:
- BUSN 1000 Business Spreadsheets 1 hour
- BUSN 1200 Introduction to Business 3 hours
- MATH 1430 College Algebra 3 hours
- ACCT 2010 Financial Accounting 3 hours
- ACCT 2025 Managerial Accounting 3 hours
- BUSN 2750 Introduction to Statistics 3 hours
- MNGT 2100 Management Theory and Practice 3 hours
- ECON 2010 Principles of Macroeconomics 3 hours
- ECON 2020 Principles of Microeconomics 3 hours
- BUSN 2100 Business Communications 3 hours
- FINC 3210 Principles of Finance 3 hours
- CSIS 3410 Information Analysis 3 hours
- MNGT 3310 Legal Environment of Business 3 hours
- MNGT 3450 Organizational Behavior 3 hours
- MNGT 3500 Marketing 3 hours
- BUSN 3750 Quantitative Methods 3 hours
- BUSN 4110 Operations Management 3 hours
- BUSN 4300 Business Ethics 3 hours
- BUSN 4990 Business Policy 3 hours
Required Accounting Courses:
- ACCT 3025 Advanced Managerial and Cost Accounting 3 hours
- ACCT 3030 Intermediate Accounting I 3 hours
- ACCT 3040 Intermediate Accounting II 3 hours
- ACCT 3075 Federal Tax Accounting: Personal 3 hours
- ACCT 3080 Federal Tax Accounting: Corporate 3 hours
- ACCT 3200 Business Law for Accountants 3 hours
- ACCT 3800 Accounting Information Systems 3 hours
- ACCT 4100 Advanced Financial Accounting I 3 hours
- ACCT 4220 Financial Statement Analysis 3 hours
- ACCT 4900 Auditing 3 hours
Course Descriptions
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