BS. Degree in Accounting
Evening Degree Program

(Offered only at the Winston-Salem Campus)

The Program:

A thorough understanding of accounting is vital if you want to analyze, plan, and control the operations of economic enterprises or want to review and interpret financial information. The Earl N. Phillips School of Business offers the accounting major. Completing it qualifies you to sit for the CPA examination in North Carolina.

The Opportunities:

A major in accounting is an excellent background for graduate work in business, public policy, law, applied history, or in more technical areas such as statistics and management information systems.  You might work as an accountant, administrative officer, auditor, bank officer, bursar, buyer, controller, credit analyst, financial planner, insurance agent, broker, systems analyst, tax administrator, or fraud examiner.

The Curriculum: The following is an overview of the major. (cf. Undergraduate Bulletin)

In addition to the General Education requirements, the major requires the following courses:

 ACC203 Financial Accounting 
 ACC 205Managerial Accounting 
 ACC208 Accounting Information Systems 
 ACC305/306/317 Intermediate Accounting I,II,and III 
 ACC307 Fundamentals of Cost Accounting 
 ACC310 Auditing 
 ACC341 Individual and Fiduciary Taxation 
 ACC342 Corporate Taxation 
 ACC499 Senior Seminar:
Accounting Issues and Problems 
 BUA305 The Legal Environment of Business 
 ECO207 Principles of Macroeconomics 
 PHL246 Business Ethics 
 FIN333 Financial Management 
 MGT221 Principles of Management 
 MKT211 Principles of Marketing 
 MIS200 Management Information Systems 
 --Select one of the following:
 ECO374 Global Political Economy
 MKT375 International Marketing 
 ECO443 Comparative Economics 
 ECO446 International Economics 
 MIS311 Information Systems in a 
Global Environment 

For more information visit High Point University's Accounting Department
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