BBA Accounting

Dear Accounting Major:

This map is a term-by-term sample course schedule. The milestones listed below each term are designed to keep you on course to graduate in four years. The sample schedule is provided as a general guideline to help you build a full schedule each term.  The elective courses must be selected with your advisor to satisfy all core curriculum and state, lab science, and multicultural requirements.

Accounting majors work with the newest information systems technology, receive a broad educational foundation, and intensive education in the business and accounting disciplines.  Students develop communication, problem-solving, interpersonal skills, and master the knowledge and skills employers demand.  Our internship program exposes accounting majors to real-world business skills and enhances their chances for success. Minors in Advertising and Promotions, Business Analytics, Business Law, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Healthcare Administration, Human Resources, Operations Management, Professional Sales, and Supply Chain Management allow majors to gain in-depth knowledge of these areas. Accounting professionals can be found in public accounting firms, banks/financial institutions, corporations, public utilities, health care organizations, the media, law firms, government, manufacturing companies, and non-profit institutions.

With appropriate planning, both the BBA in Accounting and the Master of Accountancy (MAcc) degrees can be completed in five years.  An undergraduate student may take up to 9 semester credit hours of graduate classes without being admitted to the Graduate School.  Students must be within 30 credit hours of graduation and have a cumulative GPA of 3.00 or higher.  Students accepted in the MAcc program are eligible to apply for MAcc scholarships awarded each March.  MAcc graduates are well-prepared for their careers and sit for professional accounting examinations (e.g., the CPA, CMA, etc.).

Students who complete the accounting major graduate with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree.  All BBA programs are accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).  Less than 5% of business schools worldwide have AACSB accreditation.  All accounting majors complete the BBA senior college core (18 hours); a common eighteen-hour sequence of major courses; six hours of required accounting electives; nine hours of accounting and business electives; and nine hours of general (non-business) electives. These courses, plus the prerequisite Area F hours in business, economics, and accounting, provide each student with a solid background in business and accounting.

Please see the current course curriculum here.

Take ACCT 3201 immediately after ACCT 2101. Take ACCT 3202 immediately after ACCT 3201.  ACCT 3202 is a prerequisite for ACCT 4800.  ACCT3201 is a pre-requisite for ACCT 4500. ACCT 4410 is a co- or pre-requisite for ACCT 4800.

BUSA 3110 (Business Law) is recommended as a business elective if you plan to take the CPA exam.

Students who wish to pursue the MAcc could take two MAcc courses during the final term of the BBA, provided they meet the GPA requirements and have department head approval. 

Apply for graduation one semester before the anticipated date.

 Accounting Electives:

• ACCT 3100, Introduction to Fraud, is offered each fall, spring, and summer. 
• ACCT 3250, Forensic Accounting, is offered each fall.
• ACCT 3700, Internal Auditing, is offered each spring.
• ACCT 4980, Internship, is offered each fall, spring, and summer and requires faculty and department head approval.

To become a CPA in GA or FL, a student must have 10 upper-division accounting classes.  You must take at least two accounting classes each semester, or plan to take accounting classes during the summer.