Accounting Management

BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Maranatha’s Accounting Management major is designed to train you as a manager with specialized knowledge in accounting, enabling you to prepare and analyze financial reports for businesses, governments, and other organizations. Godly, experienced business faculty members reinforce the importance of possessing both technical skills and personal integrity. This major results in a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, providing you with an ideal foundation for graduate study in more specialized accounting fields or other areas of business. In a recent survey of all accounting graduates on record, 82 percent of MBU accounting graduates are employed in their field of study, and the remaining 18 percent are employed in business management or leadership.

Career Options

• Certified management accountant • Financial officer • Investment analyst • Banker • Business owner • Financial analyst • Tax accountant • Auditor • Chief financial officer • Comptroller

Some careers and employment positions require graduate degrees, specialized training, or additional certificates and licenses.

Intern Insights

MBU has a professional atmosphere that prepared me well for the business world.

— Nathan Campbell (’20, Business Management)

Business Requirements (39 hours) BUMG 112 Introduction to Business & Management 3 BUMI 165 Computer Applications 3 BUMG 211 Business Communication 3 BUMG 222 Macroeconomics 3 BUMG 223 Microeconomics 3 BUMG 231 Principles of Management 3 BUAC 243 Principles of Accounting 1 3

BUAC 244 Principles of Accounting 2 3

BUMK 251 Principles of Marketing 3

BUMG 321 Business Finance 3

BUMG 422 Business Law 1 3

BUMG 475 Business Strategy BUMG 490 Business Capstone & Entrepreneurship 3 3

Accounting Management Core (12 hours) BUAC 341 Intermediate Accounting 1 BUAC 342 Intermediate Accounting 2 BUAC 344 Auditing BUAC 346 Federal Taxation 1 3 3 3 3

Accounting Electives (9 hours) BUAC 343 Managerial Cost Accounting

3 BUAC 345 Accounting Information Systems 3 BUAC 347 Government & Not-for-profit Accounting 3 BUAC 348 Accounting Software for Small Business 3 BUMG 363 Business Statistics 3 BUMG 423 Business Law 2 3 BUMG 431 Operations Management 3 BUAC 441 Advanced Accounting 3 BUAC 446 Federal Taxation 2 3 BUAC 449 Accounting Internship 3 BUOL 481 Organizational Behavior 3 BUOL 482 Organizational Communication 3

Course Distribution

Accounting Management Major Concentration Biblical Studies Core Liberal Arts Core Open Electives

Minimum Hours Required

60 12 24 25 7 128

Note: Accounting majors are strongly advised to complete Calculus and Operations Management courses, often required to pursue advanced degrees.

See page 26 for General Education Core requirements. Humanities Electives (6) are met by required courses Macroeconomics and Microeconomics. Quantitative Reasoning requirement must be met with Probability and Statistics.

Accounting Management Minor

For non-business degree students only BUMG 112 Introduction to Business & Management 3 BUMI 165 Computer Applications 3 BUAC 243 Principles of Accounting 1 3 BUAC 244 Principles of Accounting 2 3 Electives (BUAC courses or BUMG 321) 6

Minimum Hours Required 18

Suggested Schedule

Year 1

Intro to Business & Management 3 Computer Applications 3 Principles of Accounting 1 3 Old Testament Survey 3 English Composition 1 3 15

Year 2

Intermediate Accounting 1 3 Principles of Marketing 3 Macroeconomics 3 Christian Life, Leadership, and Evangelism 3 Literature Elective 3 The Modern World 3 18

Year 3

Principles of Management 3 Business Law 1 3 Auditing or Federal Taxation 1 3 Bible Doctrine 1 or 2 3 Concentration 3 Open Elective 2 17 Principles of Accounting 2 3 Probability and Statistics 3 New Testament Survey 3 English Composition 2 3 Fund. of Public Speaking 2 Music Elective 2 16

Intermediate Accounting 2 3 Business Communication 3 Microeconomics 3 Baptist Heritage 3 American Studies Elective 3 15

Business Electives

6 Concentration 3 Bible Doctrine 1 or 2 3 Science Elective 3 Open Elective 2 17

Year 4

Business Strategy

3 Business Finance 3 Auditing or Federal Taxation 1 3 Bible Elective 3 Concentration 3 15 Business Capstone and Entrepreneuership 3 Business Elective 3 Bible Elective 3 Concentration 3 Open Elective 3 15

Accounting Management Concentration

For business degree students only BUAC 341 Intermediate Accounting 1 BUAC 342 Intermediate Accounting 2 Electives (Any BUAC courses) 3 3 6

Minimum Hours Required 12

Accounting Management Concentration

For non-business degree students only BUMG 112 Introduction to Business & Management 3 BUMI 165 Computer Applications 3 BUAC 243 Principles of Accounting 1 3 Electives (BUAC courses or BUMG 321) 3

Minimum Hours Required 12