Accounting: Traditional Day

Dr. Sujata Verma
Program Director
(650) 508-3675
sverma@ndnu.edu

The Bachelor of Science in Accounting program for traditional day students provides students with a strong foundation in accounting and business. The major in accounting prepares students to take the Professional Certified Public Accountants Examination leading to licensure as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).  As governmentally licensed agents, CPAs are responsible for safeguarding the general public’s economic and financial interests by providing assessments of the current and future financial viability of business organizations to the investing public.  According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, accountants and auditors are expected to experience much faster than average employment growth from 2008-18.

Learning Outcomes:

• Students will learn the tools and methods to be able to evaluate business and organizational performance from both internal and external perspectives.
• Students will learn to be ethical leaders in a business and will understand and learn how to adhere to ethical codes of conduct for accountants.
• Students will be able to demonstrate written and oral communication competencies that support effectiveness of business operations.
• Students will be able to evaluate the effective use of accounting technology in an organization to drive the functional and organizational performance.
• Students will be able to develop comprehensive solutions to business problems by synthesizing and evaluating information using qualitative and quantitative analytical reasoning.

Undergraduate Accounting programs have an articulation agreement with graduate programs in the School of Business and Management. Qualified students are able to apply in advance of the last semester of undergraduate work to enroll in up to 6 units of selected graduate courses that count toward undergraduate units while also counting toward the master's degree.

Bachelor of Science in Accounting

In addition to major requirements, students must meet Core Curriculum Requirements and General Degree Requirements.

Prerequisites:	Units
BUS1000                     Foundations of Business	3
BUS1008                     Building Business Values	3
BUS1100                     Macroeconomics	3
BUS1108                     Microeconomics	3
BUS1220                     Introduction to Financial Accounting	3
BUS1232                     Managerial Accounting	3
BUS1300                     Community Based Research & Statistical Analysis* (CE)	3

 *MTH 1225, Statistics for Business, is the prerequisite for BUS1300 and can also be used to fulfill the Core Curriculum Mathematics requirement.

Total Prerequisites:

21

Major Requirements	Units
BUS2000                     Management Principles and Organizational Behavior	3
BUS2008                     Legal Environment of Business	3
BUS2201                     Commercial Law	3
BUS2202                     Intermediate Accounting I	3
BUS2204                     Intermediate Accounting II	3
BUS2210                     Federal Income Taxation	3
BUS2212                     Cost Accounting	3
BUS2214                     Advanced Accounting	3
BUS2218                     Auditing	3
BUS2222                     International Accounting	3
BUS2224                     Corporate Finance I	3
BUS2300                     Marketing Principles	3
BUS2600                     Operations and IT Systems	3
BUS2980/W                Business Policy (Capstone)	3
BUS2990                     Internship (CE)	3
Total Major Requirements	45
Other Degree Requirements* and General Electives	59

*Other degree requirements include Core Curriculum Requirements and General Degree Requirements (e.g., U.S. History).

Total Unit Requirement

124