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
Student record label hosts screening of horror flick ‘Johnny Gruesome’
A showing of the movie “Johnny Gruesome,” which host HAIL! Fredonia Records has attached a “come-at-your-own-risk” warning, will be held in the Williams Center Multipurpose Room on Saturday, Oct. 14.
Faculty member travels to Romania on sabbatical
School of Business faculty member Dr. Shazad Mohammad’s sabbatical activities have included a visit to the University of Alba Iulia in Romania.
Hungry? Snack Shack re-opening in Thompson Hall
You won’t find it on the menu, but “experiential learning” will be the key ingredient or takeaway for students who will operate the Snack Shack when it reopens in Thompson Hall at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 10.