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Accountancy (AC)

Professors: R. L. Madison, R. Bloom, R. K. Fleischman, W. J. Cenker;
Associate Professors: M. M. Leathart, G. P. Weinstein (Chair), K. Schuele;
Assistant Professors: A. L. Nagy

The mission of the Deparment of Accountancy is to preapre undergraduate and graduate students for caereers in professional accounting and for licesnsure as Certified Public Accountants. This prepareation is to be realized through a broad-based, liberal arts education consistent with the values characteristic of Jesuit higher education and congruent witht he missions of the University and the Boler School of Business to develop the student as a total person. The Department of Accountancy further seeks to dvelop and provide quality service courses for other undergraduate and graduate areas of study within the University and to provide quality service to other internal and external constituences.

To achieve this mission, the Department of Accountancy mandates its faculty to:

• Demonstrate quality in the classroom through teaching that stresses rigor, discipline, method and high standards.
  
• Make intellectual constributions; maintain currency with regard to professional practice; pursue professional interactions; and serve campus, community, professional and academic organizations.
  
• Promote active faculty-student rapport through student advising, mentoring and career guidance.
  
• Recognize ever-changing conditions by exposing accounting students to aspects of global business, information technology and application of professional ethics/morals, as well as instilling technical competence and analytical skills.

Prospective accountancy majors must complete AC 201-202 with minimum grade of C in AC 202 before being accepted as majors. Furthermore, it is strongly recommended that majors eran at least a C in each of AC 201, EC 201-202 or 211-212 and 205-206.

A significant number of graduates being their careers with public accounting firms while other obtain positions in the industrial and governmental sectors. Upon completion of the accountancy program, graduates may seek professional certification by taking the examination to beomce a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a Certified Management Accountant (CMA), and/or a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA).

To qualify for the CPA certificate in Ohio, the candidate must complete 150 semester hours of college-level credit or satisfy alternate prequalification options. Accordingly, students are encouraged to discuss the various options with a member of the Department of Accountancy. Students normally complete a Master's degree in the fifth year of study.

Accounting, "the language of business," is fundamental to successful management as well as the basis for maintaining credible stewardship of any sizeable organization. Accountancy majors are exposed to aspects of international accounting and the application of professional ethics throughout the curiculum. While the orientation is to instill technical competence and develop analytical skills in accounting, the department is aware that its majors must have a firm backgroundi n the liberal arts, sciences, business administration and communications.

Courses and programs for graduate students are published in the Graduate School Bulletin.

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