Accounting Minor

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A minor in accounting is available to students in all schools and departments except the Marshall School of Business. The minor provides the opportunity for non-business majors to gain an understanding, from the perspective of the user of accounting information, of how accounting is used in the business world. To be approved for the accounting minor, students must have completed a minimum of 32 units of college-level courses and attained a minimum GPA of 2.75. Successful completion of the 20 units for the accounting minor requires a minimum GPA of 2.0 in the following courses:

Course Requirements

ACCT 410x Foundations of Accounting Units: 4
ACCT 415x Intermediate Financial Accounting for Non-Accounting Majors Units: 4
BUAD 200x Economic Foundations for Business Units: 2 ^*
BUAD 215x Foundations of Business Finance Units: 4

Choose three of the following courses:

ACCT 416 Financial Reporting and Analysis Units: 2 ^**
ACCT 417 Advanced Financial Accounting for Non-Accounting Majors Units: 2 ^**
ACCT 418x Accounting for Management Decisions Units: 2
ACCT 419x Understanding Accounting Information Systems Units: 2
ACCT 420x Understanding Income Tax Units: 2
ACCT 462 Detecting Fraudulent Financial Reporting Units: 2 ^**
ACCT 499 Special Topics Units: 2, 3, 4

Note:

^*Students who have taken ECON 203 or ECON 351 and ECON 205 or ECON 352 will be waived out of BUAD 200 .

^**Prerequisite ACCT 415 .