Program Overview

Naveen Jindal School of Management

The Naveen Jindal School of Management offers a Bachelor of Science in Accounting degree. This program is designed to provide students with a comprehensive education in accounting, preparing them for careers in public accounting, industry, and government.

Bachelor of Science in Accounting

The Bachelor of Science in Accounting degree requires 120 semester credit hours. The program includes core curriculum requirements, major requirements, and elective requirements.

Core Curriculum Requirements

The core curriculum requirements include:

• Communication: 6 semester credit hours
  • COMM 1315 Public Speaking
  • RHET 1302 Rhetoric
• Mathematics: 3 semester credit hours
  • MATH 1325 Applied Calculus I
• Life and Physical Sciences: 6 semester credit hours
  • Select any 6 semester credit hours from Life and Physical Sciences core courses
• Language, Philosophy and Culture: 3 semester credit hours
  • Select any 3 semester credit hours from Language, Philosophy and Culture core courses
• Creative Arts: 3 semester credit hours
  • Select any 3 semester credit hours from Creative Arts core courses
• American History: 6 semester credit hours
  • Select any 6 semester credit hours from American History core courses
• Government / Political Science: 6 semester credit hours
  • GOVT 2305 American National Government
  • GOVT 2306 State and Local Government
• Social and Behavioral Sciences: 3 semester credit hours
  • BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems
  • BA 1320 Business in a Global World
  • ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics
  • ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics
• Component Area Option: 6 semester credit hours
  • MATH 1326 Applied Calculus II
  • PHIL 2303 Introduction to Logic
  • BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems
  • BA 1320 Business in a Global World
  • ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics
  • ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics

Major Requirements

The major requirements include:

• Major Preparatory Courses: 15 semester credit hours beyond Core Curriculum
  • MATH 1325 Applied Calculus I
  • MATH 1326 Applied Calculus II
  • ACCT 2301 Introductory Financial Accounting
  • ACCT 2302 Introductory Management Accounting
  • BLAW 2301 Business and Public Law
  • OPRE 3333 Quantitative Business Analysis
  • STAT 3360 Probability and Statistics for Management and Economics
  • Two of the following:
    • BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems
    • BA 1320 Business in a Global World
    • ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics
    • ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics
• Major Core Courses: 29 semester credit hours
  • BA 1100 Business Basics and ACCT 3100 Professional Development
  • BCOM 3310 Business Communication
  • BCOM 4350 Advanced Business Communication
  • IMS 3310 International Business
  • FIN 3320 Business Finance
  • ITSS 3300 Information Technology for Business
  • OPRE 3310 Operations Management
  • OBHR 3330 Introduction to Human Resource Management
  • MKT 3300 Principles of Marketing
  • BPS 4305 Strategic Management
• Major Related Courses: 18 semester credit hours
  • 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 Analysis and Design of Accounting Systems
• Guided Electives: 12 semester credit hours
  • ACCT 4V80 Professional Internship in Accounting
  • BA 4090 Management Internship
  • Choose from the following to fulfill remaining Guided Elective semester credit hours:
    • ACCT 3322 Integrated Accounting Information Systems
    • ACCT 4201 Accounting Research
    • ACCT 4301 Database Systems
    • ACCT 4336 Financial Statement Analysis
    • ACCT 4337 Business Valuation
    • ACCT 4340 Survey of Accounting Software
    • FIN 3330 Personal Financial Planning
    • FIN 3360 Entrepreneurial Finance
    • FIN 3380 International Financial Management
    • FIN 3390 Introduction to Financial Modeling
    • ITSS 4340 Enterprise Resource Planning
    • OPRE 4350 Spreadsheet Modeling and Analytics

Elective Requirements

The elective requirements include:

• A community engagement experience is required; the student has the option of zero or 3 semester credit hours, depending on the particular experience, and preference for additional electives.
• IMS 4335 Social Sector Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement
• ENTP 4340 Social Sector Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement
• MKT 4360 Social Marketing
• BA 4095 Social Sector Engagement and Community Outreach Practicum
• Free electives may be used to fulfill remaining Elective semester credit hours
• Both lower- and upper-division courses may count as electives but students must complete at least 51 semester credit hours of upper-division courses to qualify for graduation.

Faculty

The faculty members in the Naveen Jindal School of Management include:

• Professors:
  • Ashiq Ali
  • Alain Bensoussan
  • Gary Bolton
  • Metín Çakanyildirim
  • Huseyin Cavusoglu
  • Daniel A. Cohen
  • William M. Cready
  • Milind Dawande
  • Theodore E. Day
  • Gregory G. Dess
  • Umit G. Gurun
  • Ernan E. Haruvy
  • Varghese S. Jacob
  • Sanjay Jain
  • Ganesh Janakiraman
  • Elena Katok
  • Dmitri Kuksov
  • Nanda Kumar
  • Seung-Hyun Lee
  • Stanley Liebowitz
  • Zhiang (John) Lin
  • Sumit K. Majumdar
  • Syam Menon
  • Vijay S. Mookerjee
  • B. P. S. Murthi
  • Vikram Nanda
  • Özalp Özer
  • Mike W. Peng
  • Hasan Pirkul
  • Suresh Radhakrishnan
  • Srinivasan Raghunathan
  • Ram C. Rao
  • Brian Ratchford
  • Michael J. Rebello
  • Sumit Sarkar
  • Suresh P. Sethi
  • Kathryn E. Stecke
  • Riki Takeuchi
  • Wing Kwong (Eric) Tsang
  • Harold Zhang
  • Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng
• Professor Emeritus:
  • Dale Osborne
• Clinical Professors:
  • John Barden
  • Britt Berrett
  • Abhijit Biswas
  • Ranavir Bose
  • Pamela Foster Brady
  • Shawn Carraher
  • Larry Chasteen
  • Paul Convery
  • David Cordell
  • Kutsal Dogan
  • Howard Dover
  • Forney Fleming III
  • John Gamino
  • Randall S. Guttery
  • Charles Hazzard
  • William Hefley
  • Robert Hicks
  • Gerald (Jerry) Hoag
  • Marilyn Kaplan
  • Ching-Chung Kuo
  • Sonia Leach
  • Peter Lewin
  • Jeffrey Manzi
  • John F. McCracken
  • Dennis McCuistion
  • Diane S. McNulty
  • Divakar Rajamani
  • Daniel Rajaratnam
  • David Ritchey
  • Rajiv Shah
  • Mark Thouin
  • Keith Thurgood
  • Jeff Weekley
  • Habte Woldu
  • Fang Wu
  • Laurie L. Ziegler
• Associate Professors:
  • Mehmet Ayvaci
  • Nina Baranchuk
  • Norris Bruce
  • Jianqing Chen
  • Zhonglan Dai
  • Rebecca Files
  • Xianjun Geng
  • J. Richard Harrison
  • Dorothée Honhon
  • Kyle Hyndman
  • Surya N. Janakiraman
  • Robert L. Kieschnick Jr.
  • Atanu Lahiri
  • Jun Li
  • Ningzhong Li
  • Lívia Markóczy
  • Amit Mehra
  • Toyah Miller
  • Ramachandran (Ram) Natarajan
  • Naim Bugra Ozel
  • H. Dennis Park
  • Valery Polkovnichenko
  • Cuili Qian
  • Orlando C. Richard
  • Young U. Ryu
  • Gil Sadka
  • Jane Salk
  • Harpreet Singh
  • David J. Springate
  • Upender Subramanian
  • Kelsey D. Wei
  • Han (Victor) Xia
  • Jun Xia
  • Ying Xie
  • Yexiao Xu
  • Alejandro Zentner
  • Jieying Zhang
  • Yuan Zhang
  • Feng Zhao
  • Yibin Zhou
• Clinical Associate Professors:
  • Shawn Alborz
  • Steven Guengerich
  • Lale Guler
  • Dawn Owens
  • David Parks
  • Carolyn Reichert
  • Avanti P. Sethi
  • Kelly Slaughter
  • Jeanne Sluder
  • James Szot
  • McClain Watson
• Assistant Professors:
  • Qi (George) Chen
  • Khai Chiong
  • Emily Choi
  • Bernhard Ganglmair
  • Nathan Goldman
  • Ying Huang
  • Sora Jun
  • Sheen Levine
  • Meng Li
  • Xiaolin Li
  • Maria Loumioti
  • Jean-Marie Meier
  • Radha Mookerjee
  • Anyan Qi
  • Alejandro Rivera Mesias
  • Alessio Saretto
  • Simon Siegenthaler
  • Serdar Simsek
  • Shaojie Tang
  • Christian Von-Drathen
  • Shouqiang Wang
  • Malcolm Wardlaw
  • Junfeng Wu
  • Steven Xiao
  • Shengqi Ye
  • Nir Yehuda
  • Zhe (James) Zhang
  • Xiaofei Zhao
• Clinical Assistant Professors:
  • Athena Alimirzaei
  • Christina (Krysta) Betanzos
  • Moran Blueshtein
  • Judd Bradbury
  • Jerome Gafford
  • Ayfer Gurun
  • Maria Hasenhuttl
  • Julie Haworth
  • Jeffery (Jeff) Hicks
  • Revansiddha Khanapure
  • Kristen Lawson
  • Kathryn Lookadoo
  • Liping Ma
  • Sarah Moore
  • Ravi Narayan
  • Parneet Pahwa
  • Jason Parker
  • Drew Peabody
  • Nassim Sohaee
• Senior Lecturers:
  • Semiramis Amirpour
  • Frank Anderson
  • Vivek Arora
  • Tiffany A. Bortz
  • Richard Bowen
  • Monica E. Brussolo
  • Juliann Chapman
  • George DeCourcy
  • Eugene (Gene) Deluke
  • Alexander Edsel
  • Amal El-Ashmawi
  • Carol Flannery
  • Mary Beth Goodrich
  • Thomas (Tom) Henderson
  • Jennifer G. Johnson
  • Jackie Kimzey
  • Chris Linsteadt
  • Joseph Mauriello
  • Victoria D. McCrady
  • Edward Meda
  • Robert (Stephen) Molina
  • Prithi Narasimhan
  • Mohammad Naseri Taheri
  • Madison Pedigo
  • Matt Polze
  • James Richards
  • Debra Richardson
  • Anindita Roy Bardhan
  • Kashif Saeed
  • Margaret Smallwood
  • Steven Solcher
  • Luell (Lou) Thompson
  • Amy L. Troutman
  • Robert Wright
  • Kathy Zolton
  • Hubert Zydorek