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Business Core Advisement Guidelines
To view the BSBA Business Core guidelines, freshmen students beginning fall 2011, click here.

Accounting Major

What is Accounting?

Accounting has been described as the language of business. While teaching students to understand the principles and methods by which organizations maintain their record-keeping systems, the study of Accounting goes well beyond this. Accounting majors are taught to understand the cause and effect relationship that various financial events have on every part of that organization. No business discipline exists in a vacuum. They are all interdependent of one another. It is the goal of Kutztown’s Accounting program to explore how accounting information impacts the day-to-day management decisions of every business.

Why Study Accounting?

The Accounting program at Kutztown is set up to help prepare students for careers in a variety of areas such as financial accounting, cost accounting, accounting information systems, tax accounting and auditing. Our program is flexible enough that students have opportunities to do coursework in a number of these areas. In addition, for those students who prove themselves in the classroom, there are internship opportunities. These internships offer real-world experience in the Accounting profession. Graduates of our Accounting Program are prepared to pursue careers as Certified Public Accountants (CPA), Certified Management Accountants (CMA) or Certified Internal Auditors (CIA).

Specific regulations for the College of Business
The BSBA Business Core program gives incoming students some time to plan before committing to any of the Business majors. The College of Business offers four distinct major programs – Accounting, Finance, Management and Marketing – leading to the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) degree. In order to be permitted to select a distinct major in Business Administration, or to register for an upper level course in Business Administration (300 level), the student is required to:

a.   Complete the 7 Business Core courses. Attain a grade point average no lower than a 2.00 in the following courses:

ACC 121:             Financial Accounting
ACC 122:             Managerial Accounting
                             (pre-requisites: ACC 121 and BUS 171)
BUS 120:              Principles of Business Statistics
                             (pre-requisite: minimum grade of “C” in MAT 105
                              or a “C” in a higher level math course)
BUS 131:              Business Law I
BUS 171:              Business Information Systems
ECO 011:              Principles of Macroeconomics
ECO 012:              Principles of Microeconomics

b. Achieve a minimum GPA of 2.00 overall in all courses completed at the University

General Graduation Requirements for the College of Business
To graduate with a degree in Business Administration, a student must:

1. Successfully complete at least 120 semester hours as specified by
degree;

2. Satisfy all requirements of General Education;

3. Satisfy all course requirements in the major;

4. Attain a cumulative grade point average no lower than a 2.00 in
all courses completed at Kutztown University;

5. Attain a grade point average no lower than a 2.00 in all courses
completed in the student’s major.

Program Check Sheets
The accounting curriculum is sufficiently broad to facilitate a career choice in business, government, consulting and public accounting. The curriculum also has adequate depth to provide students with a solid foundation to successfully attempt the CPA examination or pursue advanced degrees in any of the business disciplines.

Fall 2007, version 20083

Fall 2010, version 20113

Fall 2011 , version 20123 These are the new graduation requirements for the BSBA Program by major effective Fall 2011. These requirements will affect all incoming freshman and all transfer students who start at Kutztown University during the Fall 2011 semester. Click here for the Recommended course sequence.

Undergraduate Curricular/Advisement Change Form

Instructions to declare a major or to change your curriculum into the College of Business.

Detailed information about the courses for the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration can be found in the undergraduate catalog.

Click here for what you do with an accounting major.

Congratulations! The Kutztown University FMA chapter has earned the FMA Superior Chapter Award for the 2007-2008 academic year. This highly coveted award is given to fewer than five percent of FMA chapters.
For more information, visit the Clubs section of this website.

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