Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

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The University of Findlay is your CPA education partner from start to finish. Earn your bachelor’s in accounting , MBA and CPA in five years through Findlay’s comprehensive accounting programs. Students with a bachelor’s degree in accounting can earn an MBA while taking the required 150 semester hours of college-level credits for CPA licensure. The specific course requirements include 24 semester hours in accounting exclusive of accounting principles and 24 hours of business-oriented courses with coverage in each of the following subjects:

Auditing
Financial Accounting
Management (cost) Accounting
Professional Ethics for CPAs
Business Law
Economics
Finance
Management
Marketing

CPA Concentration Core Courses

MBA 610 – Leadership and Organizational Behavior
MBA 620 – Management of Human Resources
MBA 630 – Marketing Management and Planning
MBA 638 – Decision-Making in Financial Management
MBA 640 – Research for Decision Making
MBA 649 – Ethics and Legal Environment
MBA 650 – Operations Management and Systems Analysis
MBA 665 – Management of Information and Technology
MBA 700 – Business Strategy and Implementation

Students seeking a CPA concentration must take two of the following:

MBA 653 – Financial Accounting and Reporting
MBA 655 – Auditing and Attestation
MBA 656 – Regulation
MBA 657 – Accounting Discipline Specialization