Undergraduate Accounting Program
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Mission Statement:
The mission of the undergraduate accounting program is to utilize the comparative advantage of our faculty in order to provide a first-rate educational experience for our students. This mission is to be accomplished through a curriculum based on the following set of values and principles to which our faculty is committed.
Curriculum Values and Principles:
Responsibility.
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The faculty is enfranchised with the rights and responsibility to manage all dimensions of the curriculum.
Content.
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The curriculum should focus fundamentally on the discipline of accounting, and on the application of that discipline. In this regard, it should rigorously examine both why accounting is done and how accounting is done, with increasing emphasis on why things are as they are and, equally importantly, how they might be.
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The curriculum should explore the state of the art in accounting. In this regard, we should integrate what we have learned from scholarly and professional research in the field, and we should explore with students interesting questions/issues that are yet to be answered. The curriculum must not suggest that all important issues in the discipline are essentially resolved.
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The curriculum should engage students to emphasize depth of understanding, even at the possible sacrifice of some comprehensiveness and detail.
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The curriculum should incorporate important connecting links to related academic disciplines, both within our course offerings and through required or recommended course work in other fields. Important ideas in these related fields should be integrated as fundamental building blocks in even our most basic courses.
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Learning Objectives:
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Objective 1:
Graduates will having a working knowledge of accounting theories, concepts and methods and be able to explain how accounting is done and why it is done.
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Objective 2:
- Graduates will be able to solve problems by applying fundamental principles to a variety of issues.
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Objective 3:
- Graduates will exhibit the oral and written communication skills needed by successful accounting professionals.
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Objective 4:
- Graduates will be able to research issues and business decision problems by finding, analyzing and interpreting accounting, tax, and other financial data.
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Objective 5:
- Graduates will recognize ethical dimensions in accounting issues and practice in order to become responsible professionals and citizens.