Accounting Major (Bachelor of Business Administration Degree)

Accounting is the language of business. It is a service activity whose function is to provide quantitative information, primarily financial in nature, about economic entities that is intended to be useful in making economic decisions. The purpose of the major in accounting is to acquaint the student with the sources and uses of financial information and to develop the analytic ability necessary to produce and interpret such information. The student learns to observe economic activity; to select from that activity the events which are relevant to a particular decision; to measure the economic consequences of those events in quantitative terms; to record, classify, and summarize the resulting data; and to communicate the information in various reports and statements to appropriate decision-makers.
 

General Education Distribution Requirements for the Major

Students entering Oglethorpe University during the Fall 2003 through Fall 2005 semesters are required to complete the following General Education coursework before receiving their degrees.

The General Education Distribution Requirements consist of a total of 12 courses (36 credit hours). Any course used to meet the general education distribution requirements cannot be used to fulfill major requirements. 

Advanced Directed Electives 2 courses (6 credit hours)
This major also requires (2) advanced directed electives outside the disciplines of Economics, Business Administration, Accounting, Marketing, Management or Finance.

Eleven Free Elective courses 11 courses (33 credit hours)

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