Accounting Minor

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.

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