Accounting

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Bachelor of Arts in Business Management Concentration in Accounting
Offered On-Ground and Online

Amplify your Career Opportunities with a Leading-Edge Accounting Concentration
Accounting is evolving: electronic banking, digital wallets, financial derivatives, and other advancements prove the exciting, progressive nature of this field. And it’s not just evolving; it’s expanding. Ever-changing financial laws and a rise in business financial scrutiny have spurred exciting growth in the accountant and auditor jobs markets.*

Employers need qualified accounting personnel, and earning your accounting concentration positions you to take quick advantage of this job growth. Whether aiming to work in public, private, or government accounting, with your degree from LA College, career opportunities await!

* 2008-2009 Occupational Outlook Handbook, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, April, 9.

Learn To…
  • Interpret financial statements and reports
  • Accounts payable
  • Establish purchasing and sales accounting procedures
  • Record keeping
  • Analyze cash flow
  • Cost accounting
  • Use accounting technology
Acquire Skills In…
  • Financial statement analysis
  • Evaluate capital stock transactions
  • Electronic bookkeeping
  • Manage business costs, inventory, and record keeping
  • Payroll
  • Banking practices
Course List
Concentration
Course Number Semester Hours Course Name
ACT200 3.0 Accounting II
ACT210 3.0 Tax Accounting
ACT220 3.0 Cost Accounting
ACT230 3.0 Computerized Accounting
ACT400 3.0 Managerial Accounting
ACT410 3.0 Advanced Accounting
ACT420 3.0 Corporate/Partnership Accounting
ACT430 3.0 Auditing and Assurance


Core
Course Number Semester Hours Course Name
ENG100 3.0 English Composition I
ENG110 3.0 English Composition II
COM200 3.0 Contemporary Communication
MAT100 3.0 Mathematics
SCI200 3.0 General Science
POL200 3.0 American Government and Politics
ETH300 3.0 Ethics
HIS400 3.0 American History
MAT300 3.0 College Algebra
MAT400 3.0 Statistics
PSY300 3.0 Psychology
SOC300 3.0 Sociology
LAC100 3.0 The Collegiate Experience
ACT100 3.0 Accounting I
MGT200 3.0 Introduction to Business Management
MGT210 3.0 Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship
FIN200 3.0 Financial Planning and Management
LAW240 3.0 Business Law
MKT200 3.0 Fundamentals of Marketing
MGT299 3.0 Seminar in Business Management I
MGT300 3.0 Management
MKT300 3.0 Strategic Marketing
HRM300 3.0 Human Resources Development
ECO300 3.0 Economics
FIN300 3.0 Finance
MGT400 3.0 Organizational Behavior
MGT410 3.0 Business Strategy
MGT499 3.0 Seminar in Business Management II
  6.0 General electives selected from any area of study

120 Semester Credit Hours

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