Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting
Website: https://twu.edu/business/undergraduate-programs-college-of-business/bba-in-accounting/
As firms relocate to North Texas to take advantage of its business-friendly climate, demand for skilled financial professionals continues to grow. Unlike years ago, accounting today is about far more than just numbers. Now accountants bring unique strategic financial, analytical, technical, and critical thinking skills and knowledge to the management team. They find work homes of every kind and at every level in for-profit and not-for-profit entities, including public accounting, corporations, governments, charitable organizations, film and TV, hospitals, colleges & universities, and many others.
TWU accounting professors bring real-world accounting experience and teaching expertise that allows them to convey theories and principles in a way you can understand. Learn from excellent professionals, and benefit from many opportunities to network with professional businesspersons in Texas and beyond. Find internships that qualify for class credit and lead to permanent employment.
By completing the B.B.A. Accounting, you are well on your way toward fulfilling the requirements to sit for the CPA exam, the CMA Exam, the CIA Exam, the CFP Exam, and many other highly valued designations for financial professionals. More information for the CPA Exam follows.
Notes for students interested in becoming a Licensed Certified Public Accountant (C.P.A.)
Students must complete at least a bachelor’s degree and 120 total semester credit hours with specific courses completed to be eligible to sit for the CPA exam. They must complete a total of 150 semester hours and work experience to become a CPA. The B.B.A. in Accounting, combined with the Master of Science in Accountancy (MSA), provides all courses needed for CPA eligibility under current requirements. The College of Business makes every effort to ensure that all TWU accounting and non-accounting business classes are accepted by the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy for CPA Exam credit. The State Board can and does change course requirements and course acceptance as the Board deems appropriate. In addition, TWU may offer elective courses that do not meet the requirements set forth by the Board. Students are subject to all Board changes until the student receives an official response letter from the State Board indicating that the student has fulfilled all requirements. Students interested in becoming qualified to sit for the CPA Exam must work with the State Board to determine their eligibility and may seek help from accounting faculty members.
Classes are located on our Denton campus in face-to-face and online formats.
Marketable Skills
Defined by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's 60x30 Strategic Plan as, "Those skills valued by employers that can be applied in a variety of work settings, including interpersonal, cognitive, and applied skills areas. These skills can be either primary or complementary to a major and are acquired by students through education, including curricular, co-curricular, and extracurricular activities."
Core Skills
- Analytical Competence: B.B.A. Accounting Specific Application- Ability to think analytically; Ability to use analytical tools to make decisions. General Employment Application- Effectiveness in problem-solving; Efficient use of common analytical tools. Analytics and Big Data Analysis.
- Diversity: B.B.A. Accounting Specific Application- Ability to work well within a diverse organization. General Employment Application- Working in diverse teams for auditing, tax, internal projects, and consulting projects
- Ethical Reasoning: B.B.A. Accounting Specific Application- Ethical reasoning; Objectivity, independence, due professional care; Conflict resolution. General Employment Application- Requires ethics education for CPAs, CMAs, and other accounting professionals.
- Teamwork: B.B.A. Accounting Specific Application-Ability to be an effective worker in team situations. General Employment Application-Audit teams, Tax teams, Project management teams.
Disciplined-Based Skills
- Generally Accepted Auditing Principles: B.B.A. Accounting Specific Application- Knowing and applying general, fieldwork, and auditing reporting standards. General Employment Application- Ability to assist in performing external and internal audits of various business entities; Ability to assist external and internal auditors with audit of business.
- Basic Individual and Entity Tax Law: B.B.A. Accounting Specific Application- Ability to know, apply, and research tax law as it relates to individuals and business entities. General Employment Application-Preparing individual tax returns; Preparing entity tax returns, providing tax planning advice.
- Excel Skills: B.B.A. Accounting Specific Application- Create pivot tables, create horizontal and vertical lookups; Write formulas and models in Excel; Use present and future value; Use if/then and other conditional formatting functions. General Employment Application- Considered a basic and necessary skill for all accounting positions; Analyzing organizational and client data; Preparing tables, reports, charts; Use in analytical computations and quantitative decision-making.
- QuickBooks and other Accounting Software: B.B.A. Accounting Specific Application- Recording accounting transactions and adjustments; Preparing financial statements; Preparing other financial reports General Employment Application- Ability to process accounting transactions and adjustments for external and internal purposes for all types of business entities. Knowledge of one accounting package is easily transferable to any software package used by business entities.
- Tax Preparation Software: B.B.A. Accounting Specific Application-Preparing individual, corporate, and partnership tax returns using tax software. General Employment Application- Preparing individual tax returns; Preparing entity tax returns.
- Analytics Software: Tableau, Alteryx, and Power BI. Basic training in R and Python.
Degree Requirements
Total Semester Credit Hours (SCH): 120
Major: 66 SCH
Program Code: BUSACCT.BBA CIP Code: 52.0301.00
Texas Core Curriculum
| Code | Title | SCHs |
|---|---|---|
| ENG 1013 | Composition I | 3 |
| ENG 1023 | Composition II | 3 |
| Mathematics | 3 | |
| Life & Physical Sciences | 6 | |
| Language, Philosophy, & Culture | 3 | |
| Creative Arts | 3 | |
| HIST 1013 | History of the United States, 1492-1865 | 3 |
| HIST 1023 | History of the United States, 1865 to the Present | 3 |
| POLS 2013 | U.S. National Government | 3 |
| POLS 2023 | Texas Government | 3 |
| Social & Behavioral Sciences | 3 | |
| CAO: Women's Studies | 3 | |
| CAO: First Year Seminar, Wellness or Mathematics | 3 | |
| Total SCHs | 42 | |
Courses Required for Major
| Code | Title | SCHs |
|---|---|---|
| Business | ||
| ACCT 2043 | Fundamentals of Accounting I | 3 |
| ACCT 2053 | Fundamentals of Accounting II | 3 |
| BUS 3013 | Business Law and Ethics | 3 |
| BUS 3163 | Business Communications | 3 |
| FIN 3053 | Business Finance | 3 |
| MGT 3003 | Principles of Management | 3 |
| MGT 3313 | Business Analytics | 3 |
| MGT 3533 | Management Information Systems | 3 |
| MGT 4333 | Business Policy (taken in final semester) | 3 |
| MGT 4563 | Operations Management | 3 |
| MKT 3113 | Principles of Marketing | 3 |
| Major | ||
| ACCT 3013 | Financial Reporting | 3 |
| ACCT 3023 | Intermediate Accounting I | 3 |
| ACCT 3043 | Intermediate Accounting II | 3 |
| ACCT 3063 | Income Tax Accounting I | 3 |
| ACCT 3103 | Cost Accounting | 3 |
| ACCT 4163 | Income Tax Accounting II | 3 |
| or BUS 4953 | Business Internship | |
| ACCT 4173 | Accounting Information Systems | 3 |
| ACCT 4193 | Accounting Analytics | 3 |
| ACCT 4423 | Auditing | 3 |
| BUS 3183 | Introduction to International Business | 3 |
| Total SCHs | 63 | |
Departmental Requirements
| Code | Title | SCHs |
|---|---|---|
| ECO 1013 | Principles of Microeconomics | 3 |
| ECO 1023 | Principles of Macroeconomics | 3 |
| FIN 2153 | Foundations of Money Management | 3 |
| MATH 1703 | Elementary Statistics I | 3 |
| MATH 2203 | Business Analysis I | 3 |
| Electives | 6 | |
| Total SCHs | 21 | |
Recommended Plan of Study
| First Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | TCCN | SCHs | |
| ENG 1013 | Composition I | ENGL 1301 | 3 |
| HIST 1013 | History of the United States, 1492-1865 | HIST 1301 | 3 |
| UNIV 1231 | Learning Frameworks: First-Year Seminar | EDUC 1100, EDUC 1200, EDUC 1300 | 1 |
| MATH 1703 | Elementary Statistics I | MATH 1342 | 3 |
| ECO 1013 | Principles of Microeconomics | ECON 2302 | 3 |
| Life & Physical Science Core | 3 | ||
| SCHs | 16 | ||
| Spring | TCCN | ||
| ENG 1023 | Composition II | ENGL 1302 | 3 |
| HIST 1023 | History of the United States, 1865 to the Present | HIST 1302 | 3 |
| Wellness CAO Core | 2 | ||
| Life & Physical Science Core | 3 | ||
| ECO 1023 | Principles of Macroeconomics | ECON 2301 | 3 |
| SCHs | 14 | ||
| Second Year | |||
| Fall | TCCN | ||
| POLS 2013 | U.S. National Government | GOVT 2305 | 3 |
| Language, Philosophy, & Culture Core | 3 | ||
| Multicultural Women's Studies CAO Core | 3 | ||
| MATH 2203 | Business Analysis I | MATH 1324 | 3 |
| ACCT 2043 | Fundamentals of Accounting I | ACCT 2301 | 3 |
| SCHs | 15 | ||
| Spring | TCCN | ||
| POLS 2023 | Texas Government | GOVT 2306 | 3 |
| Creative Arts Core | 3 | ||
| ACCT 2053 | Fundamentals of Accounting II | ACCT 2302 | 3 |
| FIN 2153 | Foundations of Money Management | BUSI 1307 | 3 |
| Elective | 3 | ||
| SCHs | 15 | ||
| Third Year | |||
| Fall | TCCN | ||
| ACCT 3023 | Intermediate Accounting I | 3 | |
| ACCT 3063 | Income Tax Accounting I | 3 | |
| ACCT 3103 | Cost Accounting | 3 | |
| BUS 3163 | Business Communications | 3 | |
| MGT 3003 | Principles of Management | 3 | |
| SCHs | 15 | ||
| Spring | TCCN | ||
| ACCT 3043 | Intermediate Accounting II | 3 | |
| BUS 3183 | Introduction to International Business | 3 | |
| MGT 3313 | Business Analytics | 3 | |
| MKT 3113 | Principles of Marketing | 3 | |
| Elective | 3 | ||
| SCHs | 15 | ||
| Fourth Year | |||
| Fall | TCCN | ||
| ACCT 3013 | Financial Reporting | 3 | |
| ACCT 4423 | Auditing | 3 | |
| FIN 3053 | Business Finance | 3 | |
| MGT 3533 | Management Information Systems | 3 | |
| MGT 4563 | Operations Management | 3 | |
| SCHs | 15 | ||
| Spring | TCCN | ||
| BUS 3013 | Business Law and Ethics | 3 | |
| BUS 4953 or ACCT 4163 | Business Internship or Income Tax Accounting II | 3 | |
| ACCT 4173 | Accounting Information Systems | 3 | |
| ACCT 4193 | Accounting Analytics | 3 | |
| MGT 4333 | Business Policy | 3 | |
| SCHs | 15 | ||
| Total SCHs: | 120 | ||
