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Online Accounting Degree

Bachelor of Arts

Briar Cliff University’s online accounting degree is all–encompassing: graduates will understand management, marketing, finance, accounting, economics – all from one degree.

The accounting major offers a broad educational background to build competencies in research, problem solving, statistical analysis, computer skills, mathematics, communication, ethical reasoning, decision making and accounting theory, among others. This program designed to develop the technical competence for a career as a professional accountant.

The online degree completion program will:

  • Prepare you for your career in the public, private, or government sectors
  • Give you the level of technical competency necessary to succeed as a professional accountant
  • Provide you with coursework relevant to the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) examination
  • Establish your skill set as valuable – and necessary – in the financial sector

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ACCT 201R - ALEKS
ACCT 203 - Principles of Accounting I
ACCT 204 - Principles of Accounting II
ACCT 316 - Federal Taxation I
ACCT 323 - Intermediate Accounting I
ACCT 324 - Intermediate Accounting II
ACCT 340 - Accounting Information Systems
ACCT 350 - Cost Accounting
ACCT 403 - ASC Research
ACCT 465 - Auditing
BUAD 223 - Legal Environment of Business
BUAD 225 - Principles of Management
BUAD 301 - Principles of Marketing
BUAD 330 - Principles of Corporate Finance
BUAD 350 - Production and Operations Management
BUAD 429 - Strategic Management
ECON 210 - Principles of Microeconomics
ECON 211 - Principles of Macroeconomics
MATH 200 - Elementary Statistics
MIS 220 - Microcomputer Applications for Business
PHIL 212 - Ethics in Business and Society
SPEC 111 - Public Speaking
WRTG 225 - Organizational Communications

Those pursuing a CPA should also take six credit hours from the following courses: ACCT 317, 370, 413, 420 or 490. 

The accounting student must also complete enough electives and all general education criteria to meet the 124 credit hours required for graduation.

NOTE: MATH 200 is interchangeable with MATH 360 or SOCY 340