Accounting Program at Fredonia
Fredonia's Accounting program has the prestigious AACSB-accreditation demonstrating excellence in instruction and proactive community service. Fredonia's Accounting degree prepares you to perform key accounting functions related to business operations, such as financial accounting, auditing, reporting procedures, managerial accounting, and legal, professional standards, and ethical accounting practices. You will be supported by faculty with decades of professional experience. Students from differing backgrounds leave Fredonia well-prepared to be successful in for-profit, non-profit, and public agencies and organizations, or to continue on to programs in certified public accountant (CPA).
The Fredonia Difference
Internships are required in Fredonia’s Accounting degree program. You will be active in a professional setting as early as your junior year. Fredonia students are also active in business clubs as early as their first year. ENACTUS, Fredonia's entrepreneurial student organization, has consistently competed, and received awards, at a national level.
Career Opportunities for Accounting
- Tax auditor
- Staff accountant
- Accounting management
- Payroll specialist
It's Different Here
Why Accounting at Fredonia?
Prestige
Fredonia's AACSB accreditation means your degree will be more valuable and impressive to prospective employers.
Qualified faculty
Highly qualified full-time professors with academic degrees, business experience, scholarship, and teaching know-how. All actively engaged in presenting and publishing their research.
Sample Courses
Strategic Management
A capstone course emphasizing top multinational management issues through utilization of knowledge and skills developed in previous courses. Problem analysis and decision-making in case studies and group projects simulate the process of strategy formulation in the firm.
Auditing
A study of the standards, procedures, strategies, and reporting used in the financial audit process. The environment in which the auditor functions is considered, including regulatory requirements, professional ethics, legal liability, and the business entity. The completion of a computerized audit case is required in the course.
Managerial Finance
The topics include time value of money, risk analysis, capital budgeting, capital structure, dividend theory, financial analysis, working capital management and foreign exchange risk management.
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School of Business in action
Commencement speakers include distinguished alumni
Distinguished SUNY Fredonia alumni — Reginal “Reg” Spiller, who is President and CEO of Azimuth Energy LLC and CEO of subsidiary Azimuth GIS-E, and Tim Zulawski, who is President of AMB Sports and Entertainment — will be the keynote speakers for Commencement at SUNY Fredonia.
Williams Visiting Professor, student band, to give concert
“An evening of intense rock, funk, heavy metal and Irish pieces.” That’s how Williams Visiting Professor Tim Donahue describes the concert that he and NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS – a SUNY Fredonia student group he assembled specifically for the concert – will deliver on Thursday, April 25.
Minding your p’s and q’s for business
The 30th Business Etiquette Dinner hosted by the School of Business is slated for Wednesday, April 24, at 5:30 p.m., in the Horizon Room in the Williams Center.