Accounting
Minor
The Accounting minor provides a mastery of accounting knowledge that enables students to understand, interpret, and use accounting information to make financial decisions. A minor in accounting prepares students entering any career field to be educated business professionals and informed consumers.
In this course, students will examine financial statements and other financial reports with a view towards using accounting information in making investing, lending, and other potential management decisions. Students explore methods of constructing, comparing, and analyzing these statements and reports and the various uses of such analyses.
This course covers techniques for identification and detection of asset misappropriation schemes and fraudulent financial statements, who commits fraud and why, and controls to prevent and detect problems.