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Bachelor of Science in Accounting: Elizabethtown College's Bachelor of Science in Accounting offered through the Edward R. Murphy Center for Continuing Education and Distance Learning offers a comprehensive professional education for adults seeking increasingly responsible accounting positions in the contemporary business community, which is characterized by its global reach, diversity, technological orientation, strategic planning, and complexity. The curriculum emphasizes development of technological skills and enhanced critical thinking as the learner moves toward upper-level evaluative courses while maintaining a core of basic business courses. The course of study provides a firm foundation in accounting principles and meets the CPA licensing requirements of Pennsylvania. This broadened accounting curriculum is further enriched by a blending with the College's quality liberal arts core to produce graduates prepared to exercise effective professional leadership in a wide variety of contexts and organizations.
The Bachelor of Science in Accounting is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The Edward R. Murphy Center for Continuing Education and Distance Learning has not sought ACBSP accreditation.
Degree Requirements:
The bachelor's degree from Elizabethtown College requires 125 credit hours of academic work. Degree candidates must take at least 30 of their last 60 credits from Elizabethtown College. Credits from Elizabethtown must include at least 15 credits in the major; nine of them must be 300-400 level accounting courses.
Corporate Strategy should be one of the last courses a learner takes. This course is the capstone course that integrates concepts, principles, practices, and applications from prior courses in order to analyze the interrelationships between business theory, problem-solving, and strategy formation.
Course Requirements
Major Courses (66 credits)
Principles of Accounting I
Principles of Accounting II
Intermediate Accounting I
Intermediate Accounting II
Federal Income Tax
Financial Analysis and Reporting
Cost Accounting
Strategic Cost Management
Auditing
Global Macroeconomics
Principles of Microeconomics
Managerial Communication
Principles of Marketing
Quantitative Techniques
Principles of Management
Business Ethics
Business Finance
Business Law I
Business Information Systems
Problems in Financial Management
Corporate Strategy
Probability and Statistics (Mathematical Analysis-Core)
Core Program (27-28 credits)
Foundations for Accelerated Learning
Power of Language (Writing and Language)
Creative Expression
Cultural Heritage
Foreign Cultures & International Studies
Natural World (must include a lab component)
Social World
Values, Choice & Justice
Senior Research Project
General Electives (31-32 credits)