Accounting

Typical Four-Year Program of Study

Program of Study Without Spring Internship: The program of study below is designed primarily for the student who enters prebusiness during the first year and maintains GPA admission requirements.

First Year (0-29 hrs.)
1st Semester s.h. 2nd Semester s.h.
10:001 Rhetoric 4 10:002 Rhetoric 4
22M:017 Calculus & Matrix Algebra for Business 4 22S:008 Statistics for Business 4
Social Science (excluding 6E:001, 6E:002, and 6E:007) 3 6E:001 Principles of Microeconomics 4
Historical Perspectives 3 Elective 3
Total 14 Total 15
Second Year (30-59 hrs.)
1st Semester s.h. 2nd Semester s.h.
6A:001 Introduction to Financial Accounting 3 6A:002 Managerial Accounting 3
6E:002 Principles of Macroeconomics 4 Global and Cultural Studies 3
Humanities 3 8G:001 Interpretation of Literature 3
6E:071 Statistics for Strategy Problems 3 6J:047 Introduction to Law 3
Natural Sciences (lab not required) 3 6K:070 Computer Analysis 3
Total 16 Total 15
Third Year (60-89 hrs.)
1st Semester s.h. 2nd Semester s.h.
6A:131 Income Measurement & Asset Valuation 3 6A:132 Valuation of Financial Claims 3
6A:133 Introduction to Taxation 3 6K:180 Applied Information Systems 3
6A: 150 Professional Orientation Seminar 1 6J:048 Introduction to Management 3
6F:100 Introduction to Financial Management 3 6M:100 Introduction to Marketing Strategy 3
6J:100 Foundations of Business 3 6A:130 Accounting for Management Analysis and Control or Elective 3
6A:130 Accounting for Management Analysis and Control or Elective 3    
Total 16 Total 15
Fourth Year (90+ hrs.)
1st Semester s.h. 2nd Semester s.h.
6A:144 Auditing 3 6A:130 Accounting for Management Analysis and Control or Elective 3
6K:100 Operations Management 3 6A:148 Business Law 3
Elective 3 Elective 3
Elective 3 Elective 3
Elective 3 Elective 3
Total 15 Total 15

 

OPTIONAL ACCOUNTING ELECTIVES DURING SENIOR YEAR:
6A:141 Advanced Tax Topics
6A:145 Advanced Financial Accounting

An Iowa undergraduate who plans to continue on to the M.Ac. Program with an MIS area of specialty and who is not beginning the M.Ac. Program in the summer session, should take 6K:126 Introduction to Programming as an undergraduate elective.