Business Administration Accounting - Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

Business Administration Accounting from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania is a Campus Bachelor Accountancy degree that prepares you for a Accounting career. Accounting is the language of business. This has been so since the basic bookkeeping procedure was established by an Italian merchant named Pacioli centuries ago. The same basic system is utilized by small and large corporations alike to record and summarize business transactions. CAREERS IN ACCOUNTING The accounting program prepares students to work in any of the three types of accounting: 1. PUBLIC ACCOUNTING: provide independent auditing, accounting, management consulting, financial planning, and tax planning and preparation services to clients. 2. MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING: employed by big and small businesses to generate the financial information needed to make business decisions, and to design and implement financial controls. 3. INSTITUTIONAL/GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTING: provide tax, general accounting , budgeting, financial management and audit services at the federal, state and local government levels and in not-for-profit organizations. Accounting also provides an excellent background for many other financially related professions such as banking, investment management, investment analysis, credit and lending, insurance, tax preparation, and securities brokering; it also is one of the undergraduate degrees often recommended as preparation for law school. Students in the Accounting Concentration may elect to take specified courses from the Criminal Justice program to earn a focus in Forensic Accounting . Forensic Accountants often work for law enforcement agencies such as the FBI and for public accounting firms. View more details on Edinboro University of Pennsylvania . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Accountancy courses.