Accounting - B.S.

Required Courses:

• ACCT 101 - Principles of Accounting I
• ACCT 102 - Principles of Accounting II
• ACCT 210 - Cost Accounting
• ACCT 310 - Intermediate Accounting I
• ACCT 315 - Intermediate Accounting II
• ACCT 320 - Taxes I
• ACCT 420 - Advanced Accounting
• ACCT 424 - Accounting Information Systems
• ACCT 430 - Auditing

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• BAD 240 - Business Law
• BAD 250 - Marketing
• BAD 335 - Business Ethics
• BAD 345 - Management
• BAD 350 - Managerial Finance
• BAD 490 - Business Policies

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• ECON 190 - Principles of Microeconomics
• ECON 191 - Principles of Macroeconomics
• ECON 260 - Statistics for Business and Economics

Additional Requirements:

The satisfactory/fail grade option may be used for only one repeated course required for the major.

A minimum of one-half of the courses in the major field must be completed at Dominican.

Students majoring in accounting are advised to complete MATH 130  or MATH 170  to satisfy the mathematics foundation requirement.

Recommendations:

It is strongly recommended that accounting majors take:

• ACCT 325 - Taxes II
• BAD 245 - Human Resources and Career Development
• MATH 170 - Introduction to Finite Mathematics (especially for students planning to complete the CPA requirements)
• ENGL 336 - Writing at Work

Additional Information

The State of Illinois requires that an individual must have 150 semester hours of college credit to sit for the Certified Public Accounting (CPA) examination. In addition, the State of Illinois requires a minimum number of hours in business and accounting courses. To meet these requirements, a student should take ACCT 325  and ENGL 336 . Any student planning to sit for the CPA exam may want to consider enrolling in the Accelerated MBA program to meet the 150-semester-hour requirement. Students who major in accounting will earn the Bachelor of Science degree.