Curriculum
Accounting Honors
The Accounting Honors curriculum is challenging and the classes small (less than 30). This makes for a learning environment that stresses active discussion and advanced topic coverage. Written and oral communication is emphasized in many of the courses in the Program. These courses are all staffed by OSU's top full-time faculty who are nationally known researchers in the areas they teach.
The Department of Accounting and MIS offers one section annually of each of the following honors courses. The courses are listed below according to the normal time at which they are taken.
To help you in planning, we provide a typical schedule for a student wishing to obtain an Accounting BSBA with Honors in four years. Another option which is often quite appealing to Accounting undergraduates who begin at OSU with significant amount of EM college credits is the Combined BSBA/Masters of Accounting (MAcc). The appeal of entering the Combined Program is that, with only an additional quarter or two of work beyond four years, it allows you to (1) deepen your understanding of accounting, (2) gain access to MBA courses, (3) obtain a Masters degree, and (4) facilitate qualification for the CPA examination.
Sophomore Year
AMIS 211H: Honors Introduction to Accounting I (5 hours)
Structure of accounting information; role of accounting and auditing in markets and organization; preparation and use of accounting reports. Uses distinctive instructor-authored materials and writing assignments, and emphasizes oral class participation.
AMIS 212H: Honors Introduction to Accounting II (5 hours)
Economic and accounting cost; managerial decision making and performance evaluation.
AMIS 519H: Honors Intermediate Accounting I (5 hours)
Introduction to intermediate financial accounting topics. Emphasizes GAAP financial accounting and reporting issues and analysis of financial statements.
Junior Year
AMIS 520H: Honors Intermediate Accounting II (5 hours)
Study of theory and practice of financial reporting. Seminar style course using distinctive instructor-authored materials and writing assignments; and emphasizes oral class participation.
AMIS 525H: Honors Cost Accounting (5 hours)
The role of accounting in internal business planning, decision making and control. Emphasizes activity-based costing and strategic cost management and makes extensive use of Harvard-style cases, in-class debates and presentations, presentation-taping, and writing assignments.
AMIS 624H: Honors Advanced Financial Accounting (4 hours)
Accounting for business enterprises emphasizing business combinations, consolidated financial reporting, and foreign currency transactions and statement translation.
AMIS 626H: Honors Tax Accounting (4 hours)
Fundamentals of the federal income tax system and how it influences taxpayer decisions. Emphasis is on individuals and businesses organized as proprietorships.
AMIS 628H: Accounting Research and Practice (4 hours)
Researching accounting concepts and standards underlying corporate and noncorporate financial statements including consideration of typical accounting problems.
Senior Year
AMIS 627H: Honors Auditing (4 hours)
Basic concepts underlying auditing theory and practice, including the role of audits in society.
AMIS 631H: Honors Introduction to Accounting Information Systems (5 hours)
The design and control of computer-based accounting information processing systems. Makes extensive use of hands-on computer assignments.
