Program Overview
Accountancy Program
The Accountancy program at the University of Illinois Springfield is designed to prepare students for challenging careers and positions of leadership in both the private and public sectors.
Departmental Goals and Objectives
The goal of the department is to prepare students for challenging careers and positions of leadership in both the private and public sectors. Specific objectives of the department are to:
- Create a professionally-oriented learning environment in which disciplinary competencies and professional ethics develop and grow;
- Emphasize conceptual knowledge and the development of analytical and problem-solving skills;
- Nurture a sense of personal, professional, and social responsibility; and
- Serve as an information resource and a networking hub for students, alumni, employers, and professional organizations.
The Bachelor's Degree
The bachelor's degree prepares students for careers in business, government, and nonprofit organizations. The objectives of the curriculum are to develop technical competencies in each of the major areas of accounting (financial, managerial, auditing, and taxation) and to provide students with educational qualifications needed for the professional certifications of certified management accountant (CMA), certified internal auditor (CIA), certified information systems auditor (CISA), and foundational knowledge required for certified public accountant (CPA).
Advising
New students must contact the department for initial advising to plan a program of study that satisfies degree requirements and reflects their interests. Students are also required to access the Degree Audit System throughout their college career to verify that degree requirements are being met.
Grading Policy
The Accountancy program has minimum grade requirements as noted in the Degree Requirements section outlined below. For questions related to the grading policy, please contact your advisor.
Degree Requirements
Foundation Requirements
All majors in the College of Business and Management require foundation knowledge in accounting, economics, mathematics, and statistics. Students must earn a cumulative GPA of at least 2.0 across all foundation courses. UIS courses that satisfy the foundation knowledge requirements include:
- ACC 211: Introduction to Financial Accounting
- ACC 212: Introduction to Managerial Accounting
- ECO 213: Statistics for Business and Economics (or MAT 121 Applied Statistics)
- MAT 113: Business Calculus (or MAT 115 Calculus I or MAT 116 Calculus II)
- ECO 201 and ECO 202: Introduction to Microeconomics and Introduction to Macroeconomics (or ECO 315: Economics for Administration)
- A minimum grade of C- is required in foundation courses ACC 211 and ACC 212. A minimum grade of C (2.0) is required in ACC 211 and ACC 212 (a grade of C- or lower will not be accepted).
College Core
The college core is required of all undergraduate College of Business and Management students. Students must earn a cumulative GPA of at least 2.0 across all college core courses.
- ACC 335: Accounting Information Systems
- BUS 302: Principles of Financial Management
- BUS 312: Principles of Marketing
- BUS 322: Principles of Operations Management
- BUS 331: Business, Ethics, and Society
- MGT 310: Managing Organizational Behavior
- MGT 488: Strategic Management: The Capstone
- Total Hours: 21
- A minimum grade of C- is required in all College Core courses MGT 488 and ACC 335. A minimum grade of C (2.0) is required in MGT 488 and ACC 335 (a grade of C- or lower will not be accepted).
Major Requirements
To earn a Bachelor's in Accountancy a student must:
- Complete at least 54 semester hours from a 4-year baccalaureate-granting institution;
- Complete at least 48 semester hours of upper-division (300-400 level) course work;
- Complete at least one half of his or her business course work at UIS (college core and major); and
- Earn a minimum grade of C (2.0) in Accountancy courses required for the major (a grade of C- or lower will not be accepted).
- Students enrolled prior to fall 2009 may substitute an equivalent 3-hour Accountancy or equivalent CBM course for a 4-hour course requirement by use of a Student Petition form.
- All Accountancy majors must complete 21 core credit hours to fulfill the Accountancy core requirements.
- ACC 321: Intermediate Financial Accounting I
- ACC 322: Intermediate Financial Accounting II
- ACC 324: Intermediate Financial Accounting III
- ACC 433: Intermediate Managerial Accounting
- ACC 443: Federal Income Taxation
- ACC 464: Auditing Concepts and Responsibilities
- ACC Elective: Any 400-level ACC course. Students may request to use a 300-level ACC course through the Student Petition form. College Core and ECCE courses may not be used to fulfill this requirement.
Other Graduation Requirements
- Engaged Citizenship Common Experience (ECCE): 10 hours
- The Accountancy degree requires a minimum of three hours of internship course work consisting of an individualized field experience (IPL 300) or an individual project (IPL 301). Students are encouraged to complete six hours of internship. Internship hours will be used to fulfill the Engagement Experience ECCE category. Students must complete course work in at least one of the other ECCE categories including U.S. Communities and Global Awareness. The one-hour UNI 301 Speaker Series course fulfills the last hour of the ECCE requirement (10 Total ECCE hours required).
Accountancy Minor
To earn a minor in accountancy, students must complete at least 15 hours of Accountancy courses, including three upper-division Accountancy courses at UIS.
- ACC 211: Introduction to Financial Accounting
- ACC 212: Introduction to Managerial Accounting
- ACC 321: Intermediate Financial Accounting I
- ACC 433: Intermediate Managerial Accounting
- One other upper-division accountancy course from UIS
- Total Hours: 15
- Only upper-division Accountancy courses will count toward the calculation of the 2.0 GPA (ACC 211 and ACC 212 will be excluded from the calculation). Students should consult their academic advisor to ensure that the requirements for a minor are met.
Courses
Undergraduate Courses
- ACC 211: Introduction to Financial Accounting
- ACC 212: Introduction to Managerial Accounting
- ACC 311: Administrative Uses of Accounting
- ACC 321: Intermediate Financial Accounting I
- ACC 322: Intermediate Financial Accounting II
- ACC 324: Intermediate Financial Accounting III
- ACC 335: Accounting Information Systems
- ACC 390: Topics in Accountancy
- ACC 421: Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting
- ACC 433: Intermediate Managerial Accounting
- ACC 443: Federal Income Taxation
- ACC 454: ECCE: Regulation and the American Economy
- ACC 464: Auditing Concepts and Responsibilities
- ACC 466: Information Systems Auditing
- ACC 490: Topics in Accountancy
- ACC 499: Tutorial
Graduate Courses
- ACC 501: Advanced Utilities Regulation
- ACC 502: Advanced Utilities Regulation II
- ACC 503: Advanced Regulation - Financial Issues
- ACC 504: Advanced Regulation - Capstone
- ACC 508: Seminar in Managerial Accounting
- ACC 509: Management Accounting
- ACC 511: Research and Analysis in Accounting
- ACC 512: Internal Auditing
- ACC 513: Seminar in Internal and Operational Auditing
- ACC 518: Business Context of Acc.
- ACC 521: Seminar in Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting
- ACC 522: Seminar in Financial Accounting
- ACC 523: Advanced Financial Accounting
- ACC 524: Advanced Auditing
- ACC 531: Fraud Examination
- ACC 544: Advanced Corporation and Partnership Taxation
- ACC 546: Tax Research
- ACC 550: Professional Education and In-Agency Seminars
- ACC 563: Commercial Law I
- ACC 564: Commercial Law II
- ACC 567: Business Ethics for Accountants and Executives
- ACC 568: International Accounting
- ACC 579: Fiduciary Tax
- ACC 583: Accountancy Capstone
- ACC 584: Accountancy Capstone Continuing Enrollment
- ACC 590: Advanced Topics in Accountancy
- ACC 599: Tutorial