BS Accounting

Accounting has been described as the “language of business.” Accounting is the study of how businesses track their income and assets over time. Accountants engage in a wide variety of activities besides preparing financial statements and recording business transactions including computing costs and efficiency gains from new technologies, participating in strategies for mergers and acquisitions, quality management, developing and using information systems to track financial performance, and tax strategy. In 2005 BYU’s accounting program was ranked #2 in the nation. With this reputation, the program is very competitive.

Learning Outcomes

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Career Options

Graduates who earn their degree in accounting are likely to work in public or private accounting directly—usually in either tax or audit. They also enjoy successful careers in the executive’s office, finance department, and operations department, or as management consultants, tax and investment advisors, estate planners, and entrepreneurs.

Core Requirements


Fall Semester:
  • Acc 401 Accounting Information Systems
  • Acc 403 Intermediate Financial Accounting
  • Acc 406 Financial Statement Auditing
Winter Semester:
  • Acc 402 Intermediate Managerial Accounting
  • Acc 404 Intermediate Financial Accounting II
  • Acc 405 Fundamentals of Taxation

The Accounting Jr. Core is an intensive 24 credit-hour experience and many students take no other classes in their junior year. Those who do take other classes take no more than one and that is often a religion class.

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