A major in accounting control systems at the University of North Texas will prepare you for numerous corporate and government careers that require a strong background in business and accounting, but not the expertise of a certified public accountant.
As a graduate of this program, you might work as a budget administrator, helping prepare annual budgets and monitoring the operating budget. You might become a financial aid officer at a college or university. You might work in a bank as a loan officer, a branch manager or a trust officer. It's possible, you might work for the FBI or other crime-fighting agency.
Studying accounting control systems will also prepare you to enter a company's management training program or to open your own business. You will need a master's degree in accounting to qualify for most specialized public and government accounting jobs. However, with a bachelor's degree in accounting control systems, you can become a certified internal auditor or a certified management accountant. Internal auditors review financial records and reports to help agencies and businesses function economically. Management accountants are employed by private corporations and businesses and perform a variety of accounting and finance functions.
As an accounting control systems student, you will study assets and investments, auditing, budgeting, computerized and manual accounting systems, and the flow of transactions, gross profit analysis, principles and concepts underlying financial statements, and taxation.
You also will complete courses in business communication, business computer information systems, business law and policy, economics, finance, management, marketing and statistics. In many of the courses, you will use computer programs to study accounting. The College of Business Administration has seven computer labs, with 200 terminals, open 100 hours a week.
During your senior year in the program, you may choose to switch to UNT's combined bachelor's and master's program in accounting. The B.S./M.S. degree will prepare you for a career as a certified public accountant or other more specialized accounting career. UNT's program has been ranked one of the top 20 accounting programs in the nation by the Public Accounting Report, a national newsletter for accountants.
Accounting faculty members are dedicated teachers. Two faculty members have been named Regents Professors for outstanding teaching and research. Regents Professors devote at least half of their teaching load to introductory-level courses. Two faculty members have received the President's Council University Teaching Award. Accounting faculty members are also regularly named "Top Profs" by Mortar Board, a senior honor society.
The Accounting Scholarship Committee awards many scholarships and excellence recognition awards on the basis of academic excellence, merit, professionalism and need. Many of the scholarships are funded by major accounting firms. To be eligible for a Department of Accounting Scholarship and Academic Excellence Recognition Award, you must be a declared accounting or accounting control systems major enrolled in 12 credit hours (9 hours if you are a graduate student).
Several student organizations are open to accounting students. Beta Alpha Psi is a national accounting honor society. Only colleges that are members of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business may host chapters. For several years, the UNT chapter has been recognized as one of the nation's best. The national organization presents chapters that receive superior status with a $1,000 scholarship each semester for the most active and outstanding pledge. UNT also has a chapter of the National Association of Black Accountants. These organizations provide you numerous opportunities to gain direct contact with professionals in accounting.
Internship opportunities are available for accounting students enrolled at UNT Dallas. Students will have the chance to gain work experience with a number of companies throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
UNT offers financial aid to help students pay for their education, including loans, internships or co-ops, and part-time employment. Students may call the financial aid adviser at the UNT Dallas Campus at (972) 780-3600 or the financial aid office on the Denton campus at (940) 565-2302 or (800) 655-3537.
A number of libraries and corporations in the Dallas-Fort Worth region offer internship or co-op experiences for students.
Taking courses at the UNT Dallas Campus permits students to work either part or full time while pursuing their degrees.
At UNT Dallas, students may take courses toward a bachelor of science degree with a professional field in accounting control systems. The degree is designed to give students a strong foundation in business administration with special emphasis on a track of the student's choice. The track chosen may influence the student's professional career opportunities.
The degree consists of 124 to 129 semester hours, which includes the university core, pre-business and lower-level business foundation courses (must be completed at UNT in Denton, a community college or other institution prior to enrolling at UNT Dallas), upper-level business foundation courses, professional field courses and supporting courses.
COMM 1010 Introduction to Communication
ECON 1100 Principles of Microeconomics
ECON 1110 Principles of Macroeconomics
ENGL 2700 Technical Writing
MATH 1190 Business Calculus or 1400 College Math with Calculus or 1710 Calculus I
Approved Math (DSCI 3710, CSCE 1020, MATH 1680, 1720 or 1780)
Free Elective (varies depending on courses taken in business core)
ACCT 2010 Financial Accounting
ACCT 2020 Managerial Accounting
DSCI 2710 Data Description and Analysis with Spreadsheets
BCIS 3610 Basic Information Systems
BLAW 3430 Legal and Ethical Environment of Business
FINA 3770 Finance
MGMT 3720 Organizational Behavior
MKTG 3650 Foundations of Marketing Practice
ACCT 3110 Intermediate Accounting I
ACCT 3120 Intermediate Accounting II
ACCT 3270 Cost Accounting
ACCT 3405 Professional Development
ACCT 4100 Accounting Systems
ACCT 4300 Federal Income Taxation
Any 4000-Level COBA course
9 hours from the following:
ACCT 4140 Advanced Accounting Principles
ACCT 4270 Managerial Accounting
ACCT 4400 Auditing — Professional Responsibilities
ACCT 4420 International Accounting
BCIS 4660 Decision Systems Design or BCIS 4690 Information Technology Management
Any 3000- or 4000-level advanced economics course
Approved Elective (Choose from any 3000- or 4000-level BCIS course, MGMT 3830, MGMT 4810 or MSCI 3870)
Upper-Division Elective (Any 3000- or 4000-level COBA or ECON course or ENGL 4180)
All upper-division (junior- and senior-level) courses needed to complete this degree program are offered at the UNT Dallas Campus. You will need to complete most core courses and pre-business program requirements at UNT in Denton, a two-year college or another institution. The pre-business courses include accounting, economics, mathematics and technical writing. Once you have been admitted to the program, an adviser will work with you to put together a degree plan and advise you as you progress toward your degree.
The virtual library at the UNT Dallas Campus provides electronic access to several thousand periodicals, more than 400 electronic databases and a collection of thousands of books in digital format that will continue to grow. A core print collection of frequently used reference books is available on site.
An on-site staff of two professional librarians and several student assistants provides reference service. Additional reference service is available from librarians on the Denton campus. An online virtual reference desk chat room is available to students needing information from the Denton campus library system. The reference desk chat room allows users to interact directly with librarians in real time. Students may also work with Denton campus librarians via e-mail and telephone. Document delivery services from the UNT library system in Denton are provided for non-electronic resources.
The UNT Dallas Campus offers junior-, senior- and graduate-level courses leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. The Dallas Campus also offers programs leading to certifications and endorsements, and courses for career advancement. Courses and programs offered are of the same high quality as those offered at UNT in Denton and are taught by faculty from both the Dallas and Denton campuses. Dallas Campus students earn their degree from the University of North Texas.
The UNT Dallas Campus features the region's first virtual library, state-of-the-art classrooms, computer labs with Internet access and other services to help students achieve success.
The Dallas Campus is conveniently located at 7300 Houston School Road, three blocks north of Interstate 20, and is accessible by public transportation.
Since its opening in January 2000, enrollment at the UNT Dallas Campus has increased every semester. When enrollment equals 1,000 full-time equivalent students, UNT can begin the process to open UNT at Dallas - the first public university within the Dallas city limits.
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