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Accountancy

Professors Greenspan (chair), Lightle, Sprohge, Talbott
Associate Professors Bukovinsky, Hartwell, Lin
Assistant Professors Brown, Cook, Kremer (WSU-Lake Campus)
Lecturers Houston, Terzian

The objective of the accountancy major is to educate students for professional careers in public, industrial, governmental, and not-for-profit accounting. To this end, the program provides a broad educational experience for students and gives them a background for completing professional accounting examinations such as the CIA (Certified Internal Auditor) and CMA (Certified Management Accountant). Accountancy majors may consider a minor in either management information systems or computing and information technology. Contact an advisor in computer science for details on the CIT minor. Students interested in financial management are encouraged to complete a series of accountancy and finance courses designed to prepare them for the CFM (Certified Financial Manager) exam. This major also provides an excellent undergraduate background for a degree in law.

Students who plan to take the CPA (Certified Public Accountant) exam should pursue the Master of Accountancy program upon completion of the bachelor program in order to meet the education requirements of the Accountancy Board of Ohio.

Transfer students who major in accountancy should note that at least 20 credit hours of their accountancy courses must be taken at Wright State.

The department has a chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, the national accountancy honorary fraternity.

Statement of Academic Integrity
Accounting professionals are expected at all times to maintain a high level of integrity. Similarly, accounting students are expected to maintain a high level of integrity and ethics in their study of the discipline. Accordingly, any student found to be guilty of academic dishonesty, plagiarism, etc., may be subject to expulsion from any undergraduate or graduate program offered by the Department of Accountancy.

CPA Exam and Combined B. S./M. Acc. Program
Laws in the state of Ohio and most other states require that to take the CPA exam, a candidate must have the equivalent of five years of college work (225 quarter credit hours). After completing 120 quarter credit hours and ACC 308, 326, and 343, students interested in taking the CPA exam are recommended to apply for early admission to the Master of Accountancy (M.Acc.) program (45 quarter credits) at Wright State. Students who are admitted early can complete both the M.Acc. and bachelor's degree with four fewer credit hours than those who wait to complete the bachelor's degree before applying. Students interested in pursuing this track are urged to contact the Department of Accountancy early in their junior year.

Degree Requirements - Accountancy

The program in accountancy requires a minimum of 187 credit hours.

Scheduling, prerequisite, and elective information is available in 110 Rike Hall or on the Raj Soin College of Business Web site at http://www.wright.edu/business/.