Accounting Minor

Minor Coordinator: Professor Patrice Schiano Dial
Minor Advisor: Professor Yvonne Purdie

Learning Outcomes. Student will:

 

  • Apply critical thinking skills: identify critical elements of an accounting issue, analyze financial information using an appropriate framework, distinguish between relevant and irrelevant financial information and derive conclusions about the accounting or management problem.
  • Demonstrate oral communication skills: communicate effectively with management professionals, deliver an organized accounting or management presentation, and speak in an organized manner on an accounting or management topic.
  • Demonstrate written communication skills: Organize relevant financial information for an accounting or management report, and use appropriate writing formats.
  • Analyze ethical issues: identify ethical issues in an accounting/management context, critically apply ethical reasoning to an accounting/management situation, choose an appropriate course of action based on professional ethical standards, and evaluate multiple stakeholders’ perspectives in the accounting/management situation.
  • Utilize technology skills: Identify uses of spreadsheets in accounting applications, develop spreadsheets for accounting applications, identify uses of data bases for accounting information systems.

Requirements. Students who earn a BS in Fraud Examination and Financial Forensics or in Economics, Specialization C cannot earn this minor. A maximum of two courses can overlap with a student’s major, other minors or programs.

Required Courses

Courses

ACC 250 Introduction to Accounting 3
ACC 251 Introduction to Managerial Accounting 3
ACC 270 Intermediate Accounting I 3
ACC 271 Intermediate Accounting II 3
ACC 307 Fraud Examination and Financial Forensics I 3
ACC 308 Auditing 3
Total Credit Hours: 18