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Accountancy Degree Requirements

The minimum total credits required for a BBA degree in Accountancy is 122.

General Education (44 Credits)

Complete the General Education Requirements.  Include the following specific courses:

  • Mathematics           MATH 1324 & MATH 1325 or MATH 2412 & MATH 2413 or equivalent
  • Social Science       SOCI 1301 or PSYC 1301

Computer Use

Accountancy majors obtain skills in using computers in problem-solving in COSC 1335 (BCIS 1305 or 1405), a required lower-division course.  ACCT 3333/ MNGT 3333, a required core business course, includes further development of these skills and their application in a business context in preparation for their use in other upper division business courses, especially ACCT 4311 and MNGT 4375.  All accounting courses in the curriculum require some level of computer or Internet skills.

Lower Level Business Courses (18 Credits)                

ACCT 2301                   Principles of Financial Accounting (3)                               
ACCT 2302                   Principles of Managerial Accounting (3)               
COSC 1335                  Computers & Problem Solving (3)                        
ECON 2301                  Principles of Macroeconomics (3)                         
ECON 2302                  Principles of Microeconomics (3)                         
MNGT 2301                  Introduction to Statistics (3)                                     

Upper Level Business Courses (30 Credits)

ACCT 3333                    Information System Fundamentals (3)                     
ECON 33xx/43xx           Approved Elective Course (3)                                      
FINA 3320                     Principles of Finance (3)                                               
MNGT 3302                   Inferential Statistics (3)                                                 
MNGT 3310                   Management Concepts and
                                                Organizational Theory (3)                                     
MNGT 3311                   Business Communications (3)                                  
MNGT 3324                   Business and the Law (3)                                             
MNGT 3340                   Production and Operations Management (3)          
MNGT 4375                   Strategic Management (3)                                            
MRKT 3300                   Principles of Marketing (3)                                            

Other Required Upper Level Courses (30 credits)

ACCT 3301                  Intermediate Accounting I (3)
ACCT 3302                  Intermediate Accounting II (3)
ACCT 3303                  Cost Accounting Principles (3)
ACCT 3305                  Federal Income Tax (3)
ACCT 4306                  Introduction to Auditing (3)
ACCT 4311                  Accounting Information Systems (3)
ACCT 33xx/43xx          Approved upper division ACCT elective (3)
Approved 9 hours of Business electives (9)