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Find your way into the heart of any business

As some of the most important decision makers in business, accountants keep industries all over the world on track for success. At FLC, you’ll acquire the soft and hard skills needed to analyze, record, interpret, and communicate financial transactions, making you the first person to know where a business stands, and where it’s headed. Talk about job security!

  • Major requirements
  • Minor requirements
  • Professional Licensure Disclosure
Major requirements
  • Liberal Arts Core: Credits 32-34
  • Major requirements: Credits 60
    • Major core courses
    • Interdisciplinary and preparatory courses
    • Major choice courses
    • School of Business courses
  • Free electives: Credits Variable
  • Total required for graduation: Credits 120

Among the total required courses, at least 36 credits must be upper division (300- and 400-level) courses. This major may require additional courses to meet the upper division requirement.

Learn more about the Accounting Major

Minor requirements
  • Minor core: Credits 6
  • Minor choice: Credits 12
  • Total required for minor: Credits 18

Learn more about the Accounting Minor

Professional Licensure Disclosure

Program Name: Accounting
Program Degree/Certificate: Bachelor of Arts
Delivery Mode: Lecture

Reciprocity Licensure Resources by State: Information for state licensure requirements can be found within the link below: 

 Additional Steps for Licensure

 To achieve licensure or certification, students may need to:

  • Pass required state licensure exams
  • Submit background checks
  • Take additional courses or licensure exams for other states

Contact Information

If you have questions about licensure or further steps, email Chris Lyon. 

Hayleigh Lyon, Accounting '17

"From studying abroad to working as an auditor while still in school, I would not be where I am today, both personally and professionally, without the experiences and opportunities I had at FLC."

Hayleigh Lyon
Accounting, '17

What can you do with an Accounting degree?

Many Accounting majors get their foot in the door with local firms after their junior year, interview for positions their senior year, and graduate with a job in place. Our highly active chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, a national professional organization for accounting students, hosts weekly speakers and arranges service activities within the business community to build your network of opportunity.