Admissions Requirements and Student Outcomes

Admissions Requirements

All students must minimally meet the requirements for general admission to South College. General admission to South College does not guarantee admission to the accounting or business programs. Program admission is not granted until the following is met.

The Bachelor of Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting requires successful completion of 60 hours of the required curriculum, earning the minimum grades required by the program.

Upper division courses in this program include:

• Managing Business Ethics
• Human Resource Management
• Corporate Finance
• Strategic Planning
• Cost Accounting
• Federal Income Tax
• Principles of Auditing I

Learning Outcomes

Through completion of the Bachelor of Business Administration program, students will:

1. Examine current management practices and compose business correspondence necessary for communication and policy implementation in organizations.
2. Develop a marketing plan using marketing research, product development, pricing, distribution, and promotion strategies.
3. Evaluate business policies and strategies for effective organizational decision making.
4. Analyze and develop financial statements, journals, and ledgers as part of the accounting cycle.
5. Independently design a manual and computerized accounting system utilizing all of the steps in the accounting cycle.
6. Apply substantive tests and tests of controls in the revenue cycle, expenditure cycle, payroll cycle, conversion cycle, and financing cycle to audit financial statements.