Accounting Department | Accounting Degree
Mission:
Our mission is to provide value-added accounting education, conduct research that
improves accounting practice and instructional development, and provide service to
the profession, university, and Gulf Coast Region constituencies. Our graduates should
have the requisite accounting and information technology skills to become the future
ethical leaders of the accounting profession.
Department of Accounting:
A. Faculty and students will interact with business professionals
1. Enlist at least 8 professionals as speakers for student organizations
and/or classes.
2. Hold a Meet the Firms Event each fall semester for accounting students
with at least 10 local and regional employers.
3. At least a third of the faculty will serve on civic and/or professional
boards during the academic year.
4. At least a third of the faculty will attend professionally sponsored
events (i.e. firm open houses, ASCPA events, ACFE events, etc.)
B. Enhance the student experience
1. 100% of undergraduates will complete experiential learning in accounting
(internships, VITA, part-time work, etc.).
2. Conduct a program review of the BSBA and MAcc curriculum every five
years by benchmarking peer and aspirant schools and
surveying alums of the programs.
3. Examine AICPA content specification outlines for the CPA exam and make
appropriate changes to the BSBA and MAcc curriculum as needed.
C. Employ outstanding faculty
1. Maintain 90% SA/PA/SP/IP faculty qualifications.
2. SA faculty members will publish at least three peer-reviewed, blind-reviewed
or editorially-reviewed journal articles in appropriate journals
during each 5-year period to support the Department mission and
according to College and Department standards.
D. Recruit and graduate quality students.
1. At least a third of the faculty will engage in at least one recruiting
event.
2. At least a third of the faculty will engage in at least one internal
recruiting event.
3. At least 50% of accounting graduates will meet or exceed the AACSB average
on the exit exam administered in MGT 486.
