Bachelor of Science in Business I Accounting
Peru, USA
BSc
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The Accounting option at Peru State College’s Campus of a Thousand Oaks in southeast Nebraska prepares students for high-demand careers in financial reporting and management. Initial coursework builds skills for entry-level accounting roles in government and private industry, covering fundamentals such as bookkeeping, financial statements, and accounting principles. Related keywords: accounting, financial reporting, management, government accounting, auditing, tax.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue entry-level accounting positions including bookkeeper, staff accountant, payroll clerk, tax assistant in public and private sectors. With experience they can move into financial analysis, auditing, or corporate accounting; employers include government agencies, businesses, non-profits, and corporations.
About
The Accounting option prepares students for high-demand careers in financial reporting and management. Initial coursework is designed to prepare students for entry-level accounting positions in government and private industry.
Students who wish to take the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) examination will need to complete the additional requirements for the Public Accounting/CPA Focus.
General Studies Requirements
- BUS 201 | Organizational Communications (3 credit hours)
Students study communication foundations, the writing process, and communicating through letters, memoranda, and e-mail messages. The culminating activity permits students to understand the report process and research methods, manage data and use graphics, and organize and prepare reports and proposals for the design and delivery of business presentations.
Components:Lecture
Attributes: Collegiate Skills – Effective Communication - CMIS 101 | Information Systems Concepts and Applications (3 credit hours)
This course is an introduction to basic computer concepts and Windows-based spreadsheet, database, and presentation graphics software currently used in industry. Development of problem-solving and proficiency using selected commercial software packages is stressed.
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Technology & Its Application - ECON 221 | Principles Of Microeconomics (3 credit hours)
Consideration is given to the microeconomic concepts of wages, interest, rent and profits, personal distribution of income, consumption, monopolies, agriculture, government taxation and expenditures, international trade and comparative economic structures.
Components:Lecture
Attributes: Methods of Inquiry & Explanatory Schema – Social Science - ECON 222 | Principles of Macroeconomics (3 credit hours)
This course presents elementary concepts of macroeconomics with an emphasis on equilibrium analysis, monetary and fiscal policy, banking, developmental economics, and comparative economic systems.
Components:Lecture
Attributes: Methods of Inquiry & Explanatory Schema – Social Science - MATH 112 | College Algebra (3 credit hours)
This course is for students who specifically need algebra in certain pre-professional programs. It covers algebraic principles and processes and is not to be taken for credit by students who have completed Math 113 or Math 120.
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Collegiate Skills – Quantitative Reasoning - STAT 210 | Statistics (3 credit hours)
A study of the methods of summarizing and interpreting data, elementary probability, and its relation to distributions. The meanings, importance, and application of the normal and binomial distributions and the methods of random sampling, testing of hypotheses, analysis of paired data, and interpretation of standardized test scores are covered. Students work on independent research projects to gain first- hand experience with the issues of the course.
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Collegiate Skills – Quantitative Reasoning
