College of Business and Technology

Department of
ACCOUNTING/FINANCE

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Business Administration Comprehensive Option

• Accounting Emphasis
• Finance Emphasis
   
• BACC Courses
• BFIN Courses

For additional areas of emphases see Department of Management and Department of Marketing and Management Information Systems.

Steve Hall, Interim Chair

Professors: Borden, Carstenson, Elder, Morgan, Smith, Swinney
Associate Professors: Camp, Frickel, Hall, Seaton, Trewin, Young

Department Objectives:

The Department of Accounting/Finance exists to provide University of Nebraska at Kearney students with the accounting, finance, and legal knowledge necessary to compete in a global business environment. Specifically, the Department:

• provides all students of the University preparing for careers in business the foundation knowledge in accounting, finance and business law necessary to communicate in a business organization;
• provides accounting students preparing for careers in public practice, private industry, government, and not-for-profit organizations a substantial foundation in accounting, as well as critical thinking, communication, and interpersonal skills;
• provides finance students preparing for careers in corporate finance, banking, investment counseling, and government financial services a substantial foundation in finance, as well as critical thinking, communication, and interpersonal skills.

College of Business and Technology Graduation Requirements

All students graduating with a degree from the College of Business and Technology must take at least 50% of their major area credit hour requirements from the College of Business and Technology at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.

All students graduating with a degree from the College of Business and Technology must take a minimum of 30 of their last 36 hours of credit needed for their degree from the University of Nebraska at Kearney.

Students seeking a Business Administration Major, Business Administration Comprehensive Major, Business Economics Comprehensive Major, Economics Major, or Agribusiness Major must take a minimum of 63 credit hours that exclude courses with the prefix BACC, BSAD, BFIN, BMKT, BMGT, BSED, BMIS, and ECON. However, BMGT 233, BMGT 334 and up to 9 hours of ECON courses may be included in the 63 hours.

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION MAJOR

The Department of Accounting/Finance offers two emphases in this major:
Business Administration Comprehensive Option
(Select one Emphasis; two Emphases maximum)

• Accounting Emphasis
  Finance Emphasis

For additional areas of emphases see Department of Management and Department of Marketing and Management Information Systems.

Courses with the prefixes BACC and BFIN are offered by the department.