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 H211:
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
H212: Honors Introduction to Accounting II (5
hours)
Economic and accounting cost; managerial decision
making and performance evaluation.
AMIS H519: 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 H520: 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 H525:
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 H624:
Honors Advanced Financial Accounting (4 hours)
Accounting
for business enterprises emphasizing business combinations,
consolidated financial reporting, and foreign currency transactions
and statement translation.
AMIS H626: 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.
Senior Year
AMIS H531:
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.
AMIS H627: Honors Auditing (4 hours)
Basic concepts
underlying auditing theory and practice, including the role of audits
in society.
AMIS
H783: Honors Research (1-5 hours)
Special topics
research in accounting and/or management information systems;
research evaluated through papers, thesis, and/or special
examinations. Repeatable up to a maximum of 15 credit hours. This is
a progress course.