Accounting

 

See Business Administration for faculty listing.

 

The accounting major prepares students to embark immediately upon a career as a public, industrial or governmental accountant and provides a foundation in accounting and business administration that will enable them to pursue graduate study. Graduates can expect to work in such areas as management advisory services, income tax and auditing, budgeting, cost accounting and general accounting.

 

A student studying accounting must complete the following requirements:

 

GENERAL EDUCATION                                                         35-46

 

** Courses marked with double asterisks may also be counted toward TS1 or Q requirements.

 

MAJOR REQUIREMENTS:

Common SOBA Requirements                                                 42

Quantitative Reasoning Requirements                                   4

Auxiliary Requirements                                                           4

 

1 Other Departmental Requirements:

Acc 323   Intermediate Accounting I                                      4

Acc 324   Intermediate Accounting II                                     4

CSIS 425W  Accounting Information Systems                        3

 

Plus select at least 4 courses (only one can be a 4 credit hour course) from the following courses, at least one of which

must be Acc 430W or Acc 436W*:

 

Acc 430W                Income Tax Accounting                                           3

Acc 431   Income Tax Accounting II                                       3

Acc 436W  Auditing – Theory and Practice                             3

Acc 470   Governmental/Not-For-Profit Accounting                               3

Any 300 or 400 level accounting elective, including any

Accounting 390.                                                                      3-4

 

Total Other Departmental Requirements                    23-24

 

TOTAL MAJOR REQUIREMENTS                                        73-74

 

FREE ELECTIVES (variable)

 

TOTAL REQUIRED FOR GRADUATION                              120

 

* In order to maintain the 74 hour maximum Total Major Requirements, only one 4 hour accounting elective may be selected. 

 

1The credits used to satisfy the accounting major may not be used to satisfy any other major, minor or option within the School of Business Administration.

 

Note: Accounting majors may complete BA 311 and 312 to replace BA 260.

 

Note to transfer and former students:  If you have taken any of your major requirements and received a different number of credits than listed above, you may need to complete additional major credit requirements.

 

For information regarding CMA, CPA, and other professional certifications and requirements in states other than Colorado, please see an accounting professor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accounting Majors Suggested Course Sequence

 

First Year

Term 1

Term 2

Econ 266 S

ES 100

PE Activity

PE Skills

TS1 (N)

TS1 (T)

4

1

1

1

4

4

_____

15

 

Comp 150

LIB 150

TS1 (R)

Math

Elective 

 

4

1

3-4

4

3

 

_____

15-16

Second Year

Term 3

Term 4

ACC 225

BA 253

BA 221

BA 311

4

4

3

3

_____

14

 

ACC 226

BA 301

BA 312

BA 340

 

 

4

4

3

4

_____

15

Third Year

Term 5

Term 6

ACC 323

CSIS 322

BA 380

TS2

 

 

4

4

4

4

_____

16

 

ACC 324

BA 353

CSIS 425

TS2

4

4

3

3-4

_____

14-15

Fourth Year

Term 7

Term 8

ACC 430

ACC 436

ACC Elective

TS2

3

3

4

4

_____

14

ACC Elective

Elective

BA 496

TS2

3-4

3-4

4

4

_____

14-16

 

 

Accounting Minor

REQUIREMENTS FOR A MINOR IN ACCOUNTING :

A student majoring in any discipline other than Accounting may complete a minor in Accounting upon satisfactorily fulfilling the following requirements:1

 

Acc 225   Introduction to Financial Accounting                       4

Acc 226   Introduction to Managerial Accounting                   4

Acc 323   Intermediate Accounting I                                      4

 

Total                                                                                      12

 

Electives:

Any two upper division Accounting courses with ACC prefix.

 

Total Elective hours                                                           6-8

 

TOTAL REQUIRED FOR ACCOUNTING MINOR              18-20