The accounting concentration is designed for business students who wish to prepare, analyze, and verify financial documents.

What skills will I develop?

• Ability to accumulate, measure and communicate financial information
• Ability to prepare, analyze and interpret financial statements
• Knowledge of accounting procedures and policies for assets, liabilities, owners' equity, pensions, leases, and income taxes
• Ability to analyze product costing, pricing, capital budgeting, profit planning, performance reporting and variance analysis
• Knowledge of U.S. federal income tax law pertaining to individuals, corporations, partnerships, estates and trusts
• Ability to apply accounting principles and procedures to business combinations, foreign operations and transactions, governmental and nonprofit organizations and partnerships.
• Thorough knowledge of the history and development of accounting theory
• Ability to plan, design and examine manual and computer based accounting information systems, including internal control requirements

What can I do to find out if accounting is for me?