ACCOUNTING

 

The mission of the Business Division is to provide quality educational programs that prepare students personally and professionally to function in a changing global Business environment that promotes the intellectual, spiritual, cultural, and technological development of the student.

 

We pursue the fulfillment of our mission statement in the spirit of the following quotation adapted from Ben Franklin:

 

Tell me and I will forget

Show me and I might Remember

Involve me and I will understand

 

To meet our mission our programs are guided by the Seven Competencies for the 21st Century

 

Great Communicator

Problem Solver

Team Player

Change Maker

Foreign Ambassador

Technology Master

21st Century Leader

Faculty:
N. Faye Angel, Ph.D. Candidate, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Rathin Basu, Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Carolyn Furrow
Delia Heck, Ph.D., University of Washington
Kishin Malkani, M.B.A, M.P.A., Mississippi State University, C.M.A.
Michele Naff, M.B.A., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
J. Claude Slate, M.S., Madison College
Dr. Christine Stinson Ph.D. Stanford University
David Sulzen, M.B.A., Georgia State University

Required Courses
Specified Distribution Courses (12 hours)
ECON 201, 202 - Principles of Economics
MATH 112 - Pre-Calculus
MATH 206 - Intro. Statistics
Core Courses (21 hours)
BUS 230 - Computer Applications
BUS 303 - Management
BUS 311 - Marketing
BUS 313 - Business Finance
BUS 314 - Advanced Corporate Finance
BUS 315 - Business Law
BUS 498 - Business Policy
Required Major Courses (24 hours)
ACCT 201, 202 - Principles of Accounting
ACCT 302, 303 - Intermediate Accounting
ACCT 304 - Advanced Accounting
ACCT 305 - Cost Accounting
ACCT 403 - Auditing
ACCT 405 - Taxation

Approved Electives (6 hours, 2 of the following)
ECON 313 - Money & Banking
ECON 330 - International Trade
ECON 400 - International Trade
ECON 405 - Government & Business

Accounting Electives
ACCT 306 - Government and Nonprofit Accounting
ACCT 407 - International Accounting
ACCT 408 - Accounting Software Applications

The Accounting Program sponsors the:
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA), Sites on campus and in Rocky Mount, VA, VITA offers our students are opportunity to prepare tax returns, electronically, for low income citizens of the surrounding community.

For more information, send an e-mail message to:
Professor David Sulzen, Coordinator, of the Accounting Program at dsulzen@ferrum.edu