Program Overview

Naveen Jindal School of Management

The Naveen Jindal School of Management offers a Bachelor of Science in Accounting degree.

Bachelor of Science in Accounting

The Bachelor of Science in Accounting degree requires 120 semester credit hours.

Faculty

The faculty members for the Accounting program include:

• Professors: Ashiq Ali, William M. Cready, Umit G. Gurun, Ningzhong Li, Stanimir Markov, Naim Bugra Ozel, Suresh Radhakrishnan, Gil Sadka
• Associate Professors: Zhonglan Dai, Surya N. Janakiraman, Maria Loumioti, Ramachandran (Ram) Natarajan, Jieying Zhang, Yibin Zhou
• Assistant Professors: Rafael Copat, Junfan Huang, Botir Kobilov, Jedson Pinto, Frederico Siano, Kirti Sinha
• Professors of Instruction: Mary Beth Goodrich, Chris Linsteadt
• Associate Professor of Instruction: Jennifer Johnson
• Assistant Professor of Instruction: Joseph Mauriello
• Professors of Practice: Gregory Ballew, Tiffany A. Bortz
• Associate Professors of Practice: Steven Solcher, Kathy Zolton

Degree Requirements

Students must meet all course prerequisites. The degree requirements include:

Core Curriculum Requirements

• 42 semester credit hours
• Communication: 6 semester credit hours
• Mathematics: 3 semester credit hours
• Life and Physical Sciences: 6 semester credit hours
• Language, Philosophy and Culture: 3 semester credit hours
• Creative Arts: 3 semester credit hours
• American History: 6 semester credit hours
• Government/Political Science: 6 semester credit hours
• Social and Behavioral Sciences: 3 semester credit hours
• Component Area Option: 6 semester credit hours

Major Requirements

• 76 semester credit hours
• Major Preparatory Courses: 15 semester credit hours beyond Core Curriculum
  • ACCT 2301 Introductory Financial Accounting
  • ACCT 2302 Introductory Management Accounting
  • BLAW 2301 Business and Public Law
  • OPRE 3333 Quantitative Business Analysis
  • OPRE 3360 Managerial Methods in Decision Making Under Uncertainty
  • STAT 3360 Probability and Statistics for Management and Economics
• Major Core Courses: 28-31 semester credit hours
  • BA 1105 Professional Development
  • BCOM 3300 Business Communication
  • FIN 3320 Business Finance
  • IMS 3310 International Business
  • ITSS 3300 Information Technology for Business
  • BUAN 3301 AI in Business
  • MKT 3300 Principles of Marketing
  • OBHR 3310 Organizational Behavior
  • OPRE 3310 Supply Chain and Operations Management
• Experiential Learning
  • A capstone course is required for all undergraduate JSOM students: BPS 4395 Capstone Senior Project - Business
  • A practicum experience of at least 160 working hours is required
  • Students are required to complete 100 hours of community engagement experience
• Major Related Courses: 21 semester credit hours
  • ACCT 3312 Fundamentals of Accounting Analytics
  • ACCT 3331 Intermediate Financial Accounting I
  • ACCT 3332 Intermediate Financial Accounting II
  • ACCT 3341 Cost Management Systems
  • ACCT 3350 Fundamentals of Taxation
  • ACCT 4334 Auditing
  • ACCT 4342 Accounting Information Systems and Financial Reporting
• Guided Electives: 9-12 semester credit hours
  • Choose from the following:
    • ACCT 3322 Accounting Transaction Processing and Control
    • ACCT 3354 Sustainability Reporting and Control
    • ACCT 4301 Database Systems
    • ACCT 4302 Accounting Research
    • ACCT 4336 Financial Statement Analysis
    • ACCT 4337 Business Valuation
    • ACCT 4340 Survey of Accounting Software
    • FIN 3390 Introduction to Financial Modeling

Elective Requirements

• 2 semester credit hours
• Students admitted to the Professional Program in Accounting will be required to register for ACCT 3101 (one-credit hour elective) in the fall semester of program admittance.
• Free electives may be used to fulfill the remaining Elective semester credit hours.
• Both lower- and upper-division courses may count as electives.
• The plan must include sufficient upper-division courses to total 45 upper-division semester credit hours.