Online Accounting Bachelors Degree

Online Accounting Bachelors Degree

About the Online Accounting Bachelors Program

  • Multiple start dates. No transcript or application fees.
  • Each online course is six weeks and can be completed 100% online.
  • Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.
  • Student Success Advisor guides you every step of the way.

Acquire a strong business background with technical and professional accounting skills like managerial accounting, records management, corporate taxation, and accounting systems and controls. 

Career Opportunities

Popular career outcomes include public accountant, managerial accountant, agency underwriter, financial planner and government auditor. 

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, accountants and auditors make a mean annual salary of $73,670. Most earn annual wages from $40,850 to $115,950. In addition, bachelor’s degree graduates enjoy a 50% increase in job security.

Accounting Elective Tracks

Accounting

►Statistics (3 credits)

A study of basic concepts and operations in descriptive and inferential statistics. The areas of study will include graphic representation, measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability theory and various significant tests of relationship, association, and correlation.

►Individual Income Tax (3 credits)

The study of individual income tax theory, planning and application.

►Intermediate Accounting I (3 credits)

A study that includes accounting theory, financial statements, the concept of future and present value, temporary and long-term investments, inventory evaluation, and fixed and intangible assets.

►Intermediate Accounting II (3 credits)

A continuation of Intermediate Accounting I that will include a study of bonds, pensions, and leases; corporate accounting; capital and retained earnings; tax allocation; changes in accounting methods; working capital analysis; comparative statements; and ratio analysis.

►Cost Accounting (3 credits)

The study of standard costing, cash budgeting, process costing, and job order costing and their application to the management decision process.

►Computerized Accounting (3 credits)

Accounting processes in a computerized environment utilizing popular over-the-counter software (i.e. QuickBooks, Peachtree). Question: “If 3.7 million small businesses use QuickBooks, how many students need to learn it?” Answer: “All of them.”

►Principles of Auditing (3 credits)

Course will emphasize audit techniques and audit procedures, using a text and coordinated audit practice set to accomplish class objectives.

Program Details

Online Accounting Bachelors Degree Program Goals

  • Develop knowledge of business and management concepts.
  • Enhance leadership competencies and quantitative proficiency in finance, accounting, marketing, human resources, information technology, strategic planning and ethics.
  • Develop effective communication competencies.
  • Learn the dynamics of working in groups and teams.
  • Develop critical-thinking and problem-solving skills; apply concepts and theories to practice.
  • Understand the qualities and attributes of professionalism and commit to the Fit Four principles of the college mission.

Online Accounting Bachelors Degree Admissions Requirements

  • Minimum 2.0 GPA
  • Completed Application Form
  • High School Diploma or GED
  • Higher Education Transcript(s)
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Flexible

100% online. Log on and attend class at a time and place that is most convenient for you.

Engaging

The curriculum blends theory and application giving you an immediate competitive advantage.

Affordable

$425 per credit hour. $5,300 per term. Financial and military aid available for those who qualify.