Minor in Accounting (Non-Teaching)
The Accounting minor is open to all students, with the exception of students pursuing a business degree with an Accounting option. The coursework helps students understand the role that accounting plays in business decisions. Students who minor in accounting will learn how to prepare and analyze income statements, balance sheets, cost/managerial reports, and tax returns.
*All minors and certificates are open to non-business students. The following applies to business majors:
- the Accounting minor is not available to business students in the Accounting option
- the Finance minor is not available to business students in the Finance option
- the Business Administration minor, the Business Certificate, and the Entrepreneurship Certificate are not available to any business students.
Students cannot pursue a Business Certificate and a Business Administration minor nor an Entrepreneurship Certificate and an Entrepreneurship minor.
In accordance with the Board of Regents' policy, students must earn a C- or better in all courses in a minor or certificate.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Students will have strong working knowledge of fundamental concepts in accounting, finance, management, marketing, information technology, strategy, and law
- Critical Thinking: Students will learn to effectively and persuasively assimilate and evaluate information to solve business problems.
- Quantitative Reasoning: Students will be able to interpret, represent, and evaluate quantitative information and integrate such information into business decisions and recommendations.
- Effective Written Communication: Students will be able to develop and organize ideas, adopt an appropriate tone, employ correct grammar, sentence structure and mechanics, use appropriate vocabulary, and correctly cite sources for facts, quotations and ideas.
- Effective Oral Communication: Students will be able to develop and organize ideas, successfully employ technology in support of a message, speak extemporaneously with minimal hesitations and fillers, adopt an appropriate tone, use appropriate vocabulary, employ correct grammar and sentence structure, and manage presentation pacing and timing effectively.
- Ethical Decision Making and Social Responsibility: Students will recognize the ethical and societal implications of proposed actions, employ decision-making tools to evaluate the ethical and societal effects of a variety of options, and make sound decisions in accordance with the analysis and evaluation of options.
Students must complete all of the following courses:
| BMIS 211 | Data Analytics I | 3 |
| ACTG 201 | Principles of Financial Accounting | 3 |
| ACTG 223 | Principles of Financial Accounting II | 3 |
| ACTG 327 | Intermediate Financial Accounting and Reporting I | 3 |
| ACTG 321 | Acct Information Systems I | 3 |
| Choose three of the following: | 9 | |
| Inter Fin Acct & Reporting II | ||
| Federal Income Taxation | ||
| Cost Management Accounting I | ||
| Auditing I * | ||
| Government & Not for Profit Accounting I * | ||
| Data Analytics for Accountants | ||
| Tax Assistance | ||
| Financial Statement Analysis | ||
| Business Finance | ||
| Total Credits | 24 | |
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ACTG 328 is a pre-requisite for these courses.