GRADUATE SCHOOL
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
accounting BS The demands of the UNH Accounting
program are rigorous but highly rewarding.
Students are expected to produce
a high-quality professional-standard
work product to prepare for the demands
of graduate-school-level studies. Students can
choose to continue their education
at The University of New Haven with UNH’s
Master’s Degree in Accounting.
The UNH College of Business offers a Bachelor’s Degree
in Accounting to those students seriously committed STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
• Faculty members are actively involved
to pursuing a career in accounting or related fields in a very broad cross section of professional
in economics. The program is rooted in economic theory, and academic organizations, partaking
in conferences and presenting and
with emphasis on economic information gathering, publishing professional papers.
processing, and analysis and on the resultant economic • These organizations include the American
Accounting Association, American Bar
decision making process. Students graduate prepared Association, American Institute of CPAs,
for a number of rewarding career possibilities in the American Society of Business and Behavioral
Sciences, Association of Fraud Examiners,
business and professional world. Connecticut Bar Association, Connecticut
Society of CPAs, Institute of Internal Auditors,
Institute of Management Accountants,
North American Case Research Association,
Northeast Business and Economic Association,
and Society for Case Research. Our students
UNIQUE FEATURES CAREER PLACEMENT
are members of our Accounting Club, and
• Each student is assigned a full-time • There are many career opportunities for
some are pledges of the Connecticut Society
faculty member for one-on-one mentoring. our students in the business world,
of CPAs.
• The mentor assists the student with course government, and academia. Accounting
selection and career options and professionals are needed by consulting
placement, and also provides any needed firms, public accounting firms, and private
advice regarding the academic or industry, as well as by federal, state, and
professional life experience. local governments.
• Participation in the cooperative education • Future business entrepreneurs can also
program enables students to combine their benefit from our program since our faculty
education with practical work experience. has substantial real-world experience
• Electives allow Accounting majors to to share with our students. The
explore other disciplines, such as computer Accounting program participates
science or finance. in the cooperative education program,
which enables students to combine their
education with practical work experience
in their career field.
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BS, Business Major: 18 credit hours
A 220 Intermediate Financial
WHY STUDY AT UNH?
• The Robert Alvine Professional Enrichment
Accounting Accounting I
A 221 Intermediate Financial
(PE) Program offers seminars, workshops,
and forums that deal with professional
(Business program) Accounting II readiness and emerging issues.
A 323 Cost Accounting Students pursuing a BS degree
A 422 Intermediate Financial in a Business program must participate
The Accounting major is selected Accounting III in the PE Program.
by students wishing to pursue A 431 Advanced Financial Accounting • The College of Business Personalized
a career in management accounting A 433 Auditing and Reporting Principles Academic Curricular Experience (PACE)
or in public accounting leading to Program offers each student a thematic
Business Restricted Electives:
the Certified Public Accounting learning experience that focuses on their
12 credit hours
career interest and aspiration.
(CPA) license. The integration of A 435 Federal Income Taxation I
• The Dean’s Student Internship Program
business law, taxation, and finance A 436 Federal Income Taxation II
is a compensated work experience that
into the program requirements provides students with an opportunity
Six additional credit hours are chosen in
provides the necessary academic consultation with the advisor.
to work closely with a member of the
background to meet the challenges College of Business Leadership team
on an externally driven project with
of the accounting profession. Minor in Accounting regional business or community leaders.
(Business program majors only)
• Among the many additional Experiential
Requirements for the minor in Accounting,
Students earning a BS Learning Initiatives sponsored by the
for business program majors only, are nine
in Accounting are required College of Business are the Corporate
credit hours beyond the business program
to complete 121 credit hours, Challenge, a competition where teams
core:
of Business students complete field work
including the Core Curriculum on a local business case study and
A 220 Intermediate Financial
(37 credit hours), Core compete for awards and prizes, and the
Accounting I
Curriculum Restricted Electives A 221 Intermediate Financial three-tiered Mentoring Program
(12 credit hours) Accounting II (Business-Leader-to-Student,
e-mentoring, and Student-to-Student).
and Core Curriculum • Recent physical additions to UNH’s College
Three additional accounting credit
Electives/PACE requirements of Business include:
hours are chosen in consultation with
(12 credit hours), as well as the the advisor. The Samuel S. Bergami Jr. Learning
Business Program Core Center for Finance and Technology
(30 credit hours). FACULTY & RESOURCES – the technological features of this
Requirements are identical • Students have at their disposal our state-of-the-art hands-on facility
greatest resource, the experienced faculty, rival those found on professional
for both the daytime and evening
for personal one-on-one mentoring. trading floors.
programs. • Accounting students have access to our The Student Enrichment Center,
cutting-edge web-based library services, featuring the Isabella Dodds
The following are which can be accessed from their personal Conference Center; the Hazell Nut Café,
in addition to the aforementioned computers. Undergraduates are required a café run by Business students as an
to make use of these extensive library experiential learning activity; and the
curricular requirements: services, which include the latest technologically advanced
accounting, tax, business, and legal Communication Laboratory.
Core Curriculum Non-Business web-based services, used widely
Restricted Elective: in today’s workplace and in
E 200 Global Economics
The Co-op Program
graduate research. The department participates in the
This course will be used, together with MA
• The UNH Accounting Club invites cooperative education program (Co-op),
118 and QA 216, to partially fulfill the
numerous speakers from diverse employers which enables students to combine their
general education non-business restricted
to talk to our students about career education with practical, paid work
elective credit hour requirement.
opportunities in their fields. The club experience in their career field. For further
also provides opportunities for students details see “The Co-op Program,” in the
Business Program Core:
to partake in field trips to Wall Street, the undergraduate catalog, or contact the
A 250 Accounting Information Systems
Stock Exchange, the Internal Revenue Co-op coordinator for the College
This course will replace, for all Accounting
majors, QA 343 Management Information Service, and public as well as private firms. of Business.
Systems in the Business Program Core.