Accounting and Public Accounting
Bachelor of Science
Overview
From filing taxes and auditing to combating fraud and managing accounts, BJU’s accounting program will prepare you to excel in the corporate world. Through the merging of Bible principles and real-world experiences in your courses, you’ll not only learn the essentials of business and accountancy but also how to use them well for God’s glory.
Program
You’ll gain essential knowledge in auditing, financial and managerial accounting, taxation, and general business. Courses emphasize real-life application and prepare you to work with people, lead teams, and communicate clearly.
Whether you pursue public, corporate, government, or nonprofit accounting, you’ll develop professional skills alongside Christian character—integrity, dependability, and ethical leadership.
By graduation, you’ll be ready to take the CPA exam, begin your career, or pursue graduate studies.
BJU Core
In your liberal arts and Bible courses, you’ll learn to think critically, solve complex problems and be prepared to excel as a business professional in challenging work situations. Plus, you’ll learn to view people as image bearers of God who need a Savior and to be a vibrant witness for Christ.
Electives
Because the best accountants communicate clearly and concisely in any setting, oral and written communication courses prepare you well for your career. Completing technology courses such as computer science and business systems will also boost your accounting credentials.
Success
Your Future
Jobs
The accounting program unlocks many career possibilities.
- Accountants
- Auditors
- Consultants
- Attorneys
- FBI Agents
- Professors
- Chief Financial Officers (CFOs)
- Chief Executive Officers (CEOs)
Graduate Schools
Our accounting grads have been admitted into notable grad schools.
- Yale University
- Duke University
- Harvard University
- Cambridge University
- Dartmouth College
- University of Georgia
- University of South Carolina
- University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Graduate Experience
God has allowed our accounting grads to excel in a wide range of business and ministry settings.
- Deloitte
- PwC
- Ernst & Young
- KPMG
- Michelin
- Amazon
- Ford
- Answers in Genesis
Career Support
Beginning your freshman year, accounting faculty will help you build and strengthen your resume. In addition to our Center for Career & Calling job resources, we’ll prepare you for the interview process.
To prepare you for ministry in accounting, we invite our accounting grads to speak about their real-world experiences and perspectives in your classes every semester.
CPA Status
Our accounting grads have consistently outperformed state and national CPA Exam pass rates for all four sections taken and hold CPA certification in over 25 states.
Learning Experience
University Accounting Association
The University Accounting Association is dedicated to equipping accounting majors with the skills and connections needed for career success. Through resume workshops, interview preparation, and networking events, the UAA helps students prepare for internships and full-time job opportunities. The UAA actively engages with accounting firms and alumni to provide valuable industry insights and recruiting opportunities. By fostering professional growth and real-world skills, the UAA empowers students to transition seamlessly from college to career.
Internships
You’ll have the opportunity to complete both part- and full-time internships at prestigious accounting firms, businesses and ministries to learn from industry professionals in your area of interest. You’ll apply your book knowledge to real-world business environments, network with other people in accounting and even receive job offers before graduation.
Accounting Recruiting Event
Each winter, our students attend a recruiting event where over 20 accounting firms and companies from Greenville, Charlotte and Atlanta come to hire them for full-time jobs and internships.
Faculty
Division of Accounting
Our accounting faculty have all earned advanced degrees and pursued careers in public and private accounting with notable companies. Their expertise in clearly teaching broad subject knowledge receives high student ratings.
They also have over 50 years of combined teaching experience and over 80 years of combined business experience, largely at the executive level.
Courses & Objectives
Sample Course Outline
1st Year
2nd Year
3rd Year
4th Year
- Essential Science
- Business Elective (300/400-level)
(3 credits) - Accounting Elective
(3 credits) - Accounting Elective
(3 credits) - EXP Elective
(1 credit) - Electives
(3 credits)
- Worldview & Apologetics
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Accounting Elective
(3 credits) - Finance Elective (300/400-level)
(3 credits) - Business Elective (300/400-level)
(3 credits)
- Program
- BJU Core
- Elective
Program Objectives
Each student will:
- Analyze financial principles and techniques using basic data, accumulated knowledge, and innovative insights from a variety of disciplines.
- Create solutions to business problems while working in a team composed of individuals with a variety of roles and different levels of commitment.
- Communicate with appropriate delivery -in both spoken and written form -the scope and results of work completed.
- Acquire skills necessary to use technology tools effectively and efficiently [and apply those skills] to develop the other learning outcomes.
- Effectively lead in appropriate circumstances, recognizing the need for a variety of leadership styles.
- Demonstrate ethical behavior (integrity, objectivity) in business settings based on a biblical worldview.
Sample Course Outline
1st Year
2nd Year
3rd Year
- Foundations of Economics
- Doctrines: Bibliology to Angelology
- Christianity & the Arts
- Auditing
- Taxation for Individuals
- EXP Elective
(1 credit) - Electives
(4 credits)
- Economics for the Professional
- Doctrines: Anthropology to Eschatology
- Legal Environment & Ethics of Business
- Business Intelligence & Statistics
- Accounting Elective
(3 credits) - Electives
(4 credits)
4th Year
- Essential Science
- Accounting Elective
(3 credits) - Accounting Elective
(3 credits) - Business Elective (300/400-level)
(3 credits) - Electives
(7 credits)
- Worldview & Apologetics
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Business Elective (300/400-level)
(3 credits) - Accounting Elective
(3 credits) - Finance Elective (300/400-level)
(3 credits) - Electives
(4 credits)
- Program
- BJU Core
- Elective
Program Objectives
Each student will:
- Analyze financial principles and techniques using basic data, accumulated knowledge, and innovative insights from a variety of disciplines.
- Create solutions to business problems while working in a team composed of individuals with a variety of roles and different levels of commitment.
- Communicate with appropriate delivery--in both spoken and written form--the scope and results of work completed.
- Acquire skills necessary to use technology tools effectively and efficiently (and apply those skills) to develop the other learning outcomes.
- Effectively lead in appropriate circumstances, recognizing the need for a variety of leadership styles.
- Demonstrate ethical behavior (integrity, objectivity) in business settings based on a biblical worldview.