B.B.A. in Accounting: School of Business: Adelphi University

B.B.A. in Accounting

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Degree Requirements
The accounting major leads to the B.B.A. by successfully completing 125 credits of course work, consisting of 68 credits of General Education requirements and liberal arts and 57 credits of business and accounting. The accounting curriculum is registered with and approved by the New York State Education Department.

A total of 15 accounting credits only may be transferred from a two-year college. These 15 credits must be from basic, intermediate, and cost accounting courses. No credit for other accounting courses can be accepted toward fulfilling degree requirements.

Plan of Study

First Semester

Course#	Course Title	Credits
	General Education Requirements	7
ACC 101	Principles of Accounting I	3
BUS 162	Introduction to Business	3
ECA 111	The Price System	3
	Total Credits:	16
Second Semester

Course#	Course Title	Credits
	General Education Requirements	6
ACC 102	Principles of Accounting II	3
ECA 112	The National Economy	3
MGT 262	Principles of Management	3
	Total Credits:	15

First Semester

Course#	Course Title	Credits
	General Education Requirements	3
ACC 201	Intermediate Accounting I	3
BUS 250	Business Law I	3
MTH 110	Pre-calculus	3
OPR 271	Information Technology and Applications	4
	Total Credits:	16
Second Semester

Course#	Course Title	Credits
	General Education Requirements	3
ACC 202	Intermediate Accounting II	3
BUS 251	Business Law II	3
BUS 267	Creative Business Communications	3
OPR 272	Analytical and Statistical Modeling (4 credits)	4
	Total Credits:	16

First Semester

Course#	Course Title	Credits
	General Education Requirements	3
ECA 251	Money and Banking	3
ACC 203	Cost Accounting	3
FIN 330	Managerial Finance	3
MGT 366	Organizational Behavior	3
	Total Credits:	15
Second Semester

Course#	Course Title	Credits
	General Education Requirements	6
ACC 303	Principles of Auditing	3
MKT 280	Marketing	3
	One of the following:
	Dramatics, Beginning Acting, or Speech Courses: PFA 108, PFA 109, SPE 104, 110, 111, or 112	3
	Total Credits:	15

First Semester

Course#	Course Title	Credits
	General Education Requirements	3
	Liberal Arts Electives	4
ACC 401	Federal Taxation I	3
ACC 403	Advanced Accounting	3
BUS 341	International Business	3
	Total Credits:	16
Second Semester

Course#	Course Title	Credits
	General Education Requirements	3
	Liberal Arts Electives	4
ACC 402	Federal Taxation II	3
ACC 405	Auditing/Accounting Information Systems
	-or-
ACC 406	Government and Financial Accounting	3
BUS 468	Business Policy and Strategy	3
	Total Credits:	16

The Fifth Year Option
Students planning a career in public accounting should be aware that the requirements to sit for the C.P.A. examination in New York State, as well as many other states, have changed. This change requires candidates who wish to sit for the C.P.A. examination to complete a 150-credit hour program. Our undergraduate accounting majors can meet the NYSED requirement AND obtain an MBA by completing the following courses:

Course#	Course Title	Credits
MGT 666	Leadership and Innovation in Complex Systems
OPR 678	Best Practices, Operations, and Total Quality Management
MGT 770	Management of Technology
BUS 689	Persuasive Communication and Negotiation
FIN 734	Building Shareholder Value through Competitive Analysis
ACC 703	Advanced Accounting
ACC 704	Advanced Taxation
ACC 707	Auditing and the Computer
ACC 708	Seminar in Accounting Theory
BUS 679	Strategic Management
	Total Credits:

Contact
For additional information, please contact:

Adelphi University
School of Business
Hagedorn Hall of Enterprise, Room 121
1 South Avenue
P.O. BOX 701
Garden City, NY 11530-0701

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