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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.

BJU students on the first day of class

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.

Licensure Disclosure

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

Dr. Jeff Bryson teaching class at BJU

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

Jeff Bryson
Jeff Bryson
Division of Accounting

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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.

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Courses & Objectives

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

4th Year

  • Essential Science
  • Accounting Elective (3 credits)
  • Accounting Elective (3 credits)
  • Business Elective (300/400-level) (3 credits)
  • Electives (7 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.

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