Accountancy

Major

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Accounting provides financial information for evaluating the present and planned activities of complex organizations. It includes a range of services to individuals, businesses, and government at all levels. Few career fields offer as wide a variety of positions as accounting. Every institution, regardless of its size or structure, has an accounting function and employs the services of certified public accountants, auditors, tax advisors, certified management accountants, financial managers, and consultants.

• The accountancy major provides an excellent undergraduate background for students planning to go to law school or wishing to pursue graduate studies in other business disciplines.
  
• A fifth-year MACC program is an option for students who wish to qualify to sit for the uniform CPA exam in the state of Ohio.
  
• Students majoring in accountancy have several opportunities for professional growth outside the classroom through the Accounting Club and the Beta Alpha Psi (accounting honorary) chapter, which has achieved superior chapter status every year since 1993.

Fast Facts:

Average starting salary of professionals with a bachelor's degree in a business-related field: Accounting $36,919; Business Administration/Management $35,991; Economics/Finance $37,502; MIS $43,657; Marketing $33,141. (Source: Salary Survey Summer 2000 The National Association of Colleges and Employers)

Discover what some of WSU's alumni are doing with a degree in:

Accountancy - staff accountant, law school student, accounting/management information system specialist