Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with Specialization in Accounting
Pineville, USA
DURATION
4 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
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Introduction
Learn to evaluate and improve business practices from a biblical worldview with sound scientific and financial knowledge while becoming a qualified, educated business manager with this business degree. Areas of study include recognizing and analyzing ethical problems, defending resolutions for practical situations in accounting, management, and marketing, and recognizing how domestic and global variables may impact organizational decision-making.
The Young School of Business has a mission of combining a full-time, teaching faculty with an academic program that challenges students in a community of learning. All courses are built on a biblical worldview. We believe this approach produces well-informed, ethically sensitive, and academically prepared graduates. The School has graduated hundreds who have succeeded in various managerial and leadership positions in the United States and overseas.
The School concentrates its resources on an undergraduate program that emphasizes teaching and a close, caring relationship with students. Learning and free inquiry from a Christian perspective provides an environment where students are encouraged to become sensitive and productive members of society, able to respond to the demands of a rapidly changing world. The central curriculum, required of all students in the University, provides a broad knowledge and understanding in the areas of the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. This central curriculum requirement combined with the business core curriculum, required all business students, to give students a solid foundation in the liberal arts as well as the business disciplines.
Program Outcome
The professional concentration provides specific skills for understanding and functioning in organizations and offers a basis for a lifetime of professional growth and development in a global environment. Therefore, students completing the business program at Louisiana Christian University are characterized by their:
- Sense of personal values and social responsibility developed through courses in values and business ethics.
- Creativity in decision-making enriched by participation in casework and business simulations.
- Oral and written communication ability strengthened by formal courses in communication and the opportunity to make formal and informal presentations.
- Analytical decision-making skills developed in courses using quantitative methods and problem-solving.
- Immediate productivity resulting from internships, real-world examples, and guest speakers who relate academic material to existing organizational problems.
- Interpersonal skills developed through working with groups in classes as well as social and professional organizations.
- Ability to succeed in graduate school because the focus of all faculty, physical, and financial resources on the teaching of undergraduates has resulted in solid, academic coursework.
Curriculum
All students in the division of business receive a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree. In the first two years, students take courses to meet the Central Curriculum and some of the Business Professional Core requirements. Students are required to select an area of specialization within the division. The Accounting Specialization hours for the Third and Fourth years are included below.
Central Curriculum Requirements:
- CC 100 College Connection I
- CC 102 College Connection II
- CA 150 Modern Communication
- EN 101 Composition I
- EN 102 Composition II
- EN 200 Literary Perspectives: Survey of British Literature or
- EN 201 Literary Perspectives: Survey of American Literature
- EC 221 Principles of Macroeconomics
- ES 103 Introduction to Earth Science
- ES 104 Introduction to Earth Science Lab
- HP 100 Personal Fitness
- Health & Physical Education Activity 1 hr
- HI 104 Western Heritage
- HI 105 American Heritage
- CJ/HI/PS 225 American Government and Politics 3 hrs
- MA 211 Elementary Statistics
- RL 105 Survey of the Bible
- RL 106 Interpreting the Bible
- RL 305 Christian Worldview
- Spiritual and Cultural Enrichment CR (Every semester of full-time registration)
Fine Arts
(Choose one of the following)
- AR 200 Art Appreciation
- CM 250 Cinema Appreciation
- MU 200 Music Appreciation
- TH 200 Theatre Appreciation
Total: 3 hrs
Foreign Language
(Choose one of the following)
- FR 101 Elementary French I
- SP 101 Elementary Spanish I
- GK 223 Elementary Greek I
- HE 223 Elementary Hebrew I
Total: 3 hrs
Mathematics
(Choose one of the following)
- MA 101 Math for Liberal Arts
- MA 111 College Algebra
- MA 115 Precalculus
Total: 3 hrs
Total: 52 hrs
Business Administration Core
- AC 211 Accounting Principles I: Financial Accounting *
- AC 212 Accounting Principles II: Managerial Accounting
- BA 150 Survey of Business
- BA 200 Computer Business Applications
- BA 370 Business Ethics *
- BA 446 Commercial Law I
- BA 450 Management Policy and Strategy *
- CS 420 Management Information Systems
- EC 222 Principles of Microeconomics
- EC 337 Money and Banking
- EC 341 Managerial Finance *
- MG 334 Principles of Marketing *
- MG 350 Principles of Management and Organizational Behavior *
- MG 410 International Business
Business Core Elective
(Choose one of the following)
- AC 333 Cost Accounting *
- MG 355 Production and Operations Management *
- MG 390 Human Resource Management *
Total: 45 hrs
Note:
**Accounting majors must choose
- AC 333 Cost Accounting for the Business Core Elective course.
Specialization in Accounting
- AC 313 Intermediate Accounting I *
- AC 314 Intermediate Accounting II
- AC 315 Intermediate Accounting III
- AC 343 Federal Income Tax: Individuals *
- AC 401 Auditing *
- BA 447 Commercial Law II
- AC 423 Governmental and Not-for-Profit Accounting or
- AC 425 Advanced Accounting
Choose one of the following
(not taken above)
- AC 320 Accounting Information Systems
- AC 423 Governmental and Not-for-Profit Accounting
- AC 425 Advanced Accounting
- AC 430 Financial Accounting Data Analytics
- AC 444 Federal Income Tax: Corporations and Partnerships
- AC 445 Internship in Accounting
- AC 450 Topics in Accounting
Total: 24 hrs
Total Degree Requirements: 121 hrs
Note: Courses marked with asterisk (*) will be counted in the Business Major GPA.