Program
Coordinator: Demetri Tsanacas
Phone Number: (540) 365-4318
e-mail: dtsanacas@ferrum.edu
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
Required
Courses:
Liberal Arts core and degree specific requirements:
ECO 201 Principles of Macroeconomics (3 hours)
ECO 202 Principles of Microeconomics (3 hours)
MTH 203 Concepts in Calculus (3 hours)
MTH 206 Introductory Statistics (3 hours)
Total 12
Required Courses for the Major
ACC 201 Principles of Accounting I (3 hours)
ACC 202 Principles of Accounting II (3 hours)
ACC 301 Managerial Accounting (3 hours)
ACC 302 Intermediate Accounting I (3 hours)
ACC 303 Intermediate Accounting II (3 hours)
ACC 405 Taxation (3 hours)
BUS 230 Computer Applications (3 hours)
BUS 303 Management (3 hours)
BUS 308 Business Communications (3 hours)
BUS 311 Marketing (3 hours)
BUS 313 Business Finance (3 hours)
BUS 315 Business Law (3 hours)
BUS 498 Business Policy (3 hours)
Total 39
Choose four of the following courses.
At least two must be accounting courses and one must be either ACC
408 or BUS 325:
ACC 304 Advanced Accounting (3 hours)
ACC 306 Governmental & Non-profit Accounting (3 hours)
ACC 403 Auditing (3 hours)
ACC 407 International Accounting (3 hours)
ACC 408 Accounting Software Applications (3 hours)
BUS 314 Advanced Corporate Finance (3 hours)
BUS 325 Advanced Computer Applications (3 hours)
BUS 330 Quantitative Methods (3 hours)
BUS 331 Production/Operations Management (3 hours)
ECO 313 Money and Banking (3 hours)
ECO 400 International Finance (3 hours)
ECO 405 Government and Business (3 hours)
Total 12
At least two hours of experiential or service learning must
be selected from the following courses:
ACC 290, 390,490 Accounting Practicum 1 (each)
BUS 190,290,390 Free Enterprise Strategies 1 (each)
BUS 499 Internship (3 hours)
(alternatives to these must be approved by the accounting program
coordinator)
Total 2 (minimum)
Total hours required in the major 53
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.
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