Public Accounting (BS)

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Total required credit hours: 150
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GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS (37-40 hrs)

Integrative and Experiential Core

First Year (FYS) or Transition Year Seminar (TYS)
Integrated Studies (INST)
Senior Year Experience (SYE)

Discipline-Based Skills Development

Mathematics
- This major requires:
  MATH 1240 - Statistics I
Lifetime Fitness and Wellness Series (LFW)
Skills Development
- Oral/Written Communication
- Language Proficiency
- Laboratory and Experimental Design

Writing Intensive

See General Education Requirements for specifics.

MAJOR REQUIREMENTS (93 hrs)

Additional Courses

Remaining 30 hours to be completed with course work at the 3000, 4000, 5000, and/or 6000 level selected from BAE or any undergraduate or graduate department at Otterbein. Students encouraged to complete either a second major or a Master of Business Administration (MBA).

CPA EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

150 semester hours is required to sit for the Ohio CPA exam.
- Of the 150 semester credit hours:
  - 30 of the 150 semester college credit hours must be accounting courses with coverage in:
    - Financial Accounting
    - Management Accounting
    - CPA Auditing
    - Professional Ethics
    - Taxation
    - Accounting Information Systems
  - 24 of the 150 semester college credit hours must be in business courses other than accounting. Business courses acceptable include:
    - Finance
    - Management
    - Economics
    - Marketing
    - Business Law
    - Business Communications
    - Business Statistics
    - *Note* - Nonbusiness communications (taken in the English department); Statistics (taken in the Math department); or Ethics (taken in the Philosophy department) are not counted as business courses by the Accountancy Board of Ohio.
  - The remaining 96 college credit hours can be from any undergraduate or graduate level courses such as:
    - Art
    - Business (courses other than accounting: finance, management, economics, marketing, business law, business communications, business statistics, etc.)
    - Communication
    - Computer Science
    - Criminal Justice
    - Dance
    - Economics
    - Education
    - Engineering
    - English
    - Equine Science
    - Health and Sport Science
    - History
    - Languages
    - Management
    - Math
    - Music
    - Nursing
    - Philosophy
    - Physical Education
    - Political Science
    - Psychology
    - Religion
    - Sciences (Biology, Chemistry, etc.)
    - Theatre

RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT

In order to graduate from any university a student should take a significant portion of the hours for his or her program of study from that university, take a significant proportion of hours in the major from that university, and take a significant proportion of the “signature elements” of that university’s general education requirements.

At Otterbein, at least 36 credit hours of coursework must be taken in Otterbein classes. MATH 0900 cannot be used to help fulfill this requirement. Of these hours:

at least 9 credit hours must be taken in each of a student’s majors at the 3000 level or above,
at least 5 credit hours (any level) must be taken in each minor, and
at least one INST 2XXX thread course, INST 3XXX, and an SYE course must be taken at Otterbein.

REQUIRED TOTAL HOURS FOR DEGREE (150)

If the coursework taken to fulfill the General Education Requirements and the requirements in your major do not equal 150 credit hours, select a sufficient number of electives to achieve that total.

MINIMUM GPA

A GPA of 2.0 overall as well as in the major must be achieved.

APPLICATION FOR DEGREE

A prospective graduate must complete an Application for Degree with the Office of the Registrar one term prior to the term in which the degree is to be completed.

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