Accounting - Marymount Manhattan College

Accounting from Marymount Manhattan College is a Campus Bachelor Accountancy degree that prepares you for a Accounting career. MYTH: An Accountant's primary function is number crunching alone in an office. REALITY: Accountants are a lifeline to the business world. They are advisors solving difficult financial problems and are valuable members of the management team. Through business and accounting studies, you will have the opportunity to become a leader in whichever field you choose. The professional skills you'll learn as an accounting major are essential to business. Working with people is one of the most important skills a CPA can have. They mix with all types of clients from rock stars to attorneys. Accounting skills are also fundamental to nearly any other career you might explore. The MMC Advantage Why Choose MMC? Accounting majors take courses in all areas of business including economics, personal computing, marketing, financial management and managerial concepts. The Accounting and Business Management Division has one of the most diverse student populations in the College with traditional and non-traditional-aged students from all over the country and around the world. In response to this diversity, the Division offers courses during the day and evening, and during January and summer mini-sessions. Accounting majors earn a Bachelor of Science degree . Learning Goals for the Major in Accounting Upon completion of the Accounting Program a student will achieve the following outcomes: 1. Business and Accounting Functions: Students will analyze and communicate information in the areas of financial, managerial, tax accounting and auditing as well as the core areas of business including marketing, finance and business. Students will identify, record, and communicate financial information and provide an analysis and interpretation of financial statements. Students will use audit techniques to form and communicate an opinion on the reliability and assertions of financial statements. Students will apply different costing methods and successfully utilize them for planning and control purposes. Finally, students will apply the Federal Internal Revenue Code and analyze the effects of different tax principles on individuals and businesses. 2. Critical Thinking: Students will demonstrate critical thinking skills, including: identifying and applying assessment instruments and analytical tools to analyze significant problems and/or opportunities, formulating decision alternatives, selecting a preferred solution decision based on conceptual analysis, and developing an action plan for the successful implementation of the preferred solution to these problems/opportunities. 3. Quantitative & Technological Skills: Students will demonstrate critical quantitative and technological skills and knowledge enabling them to analyze and interpret business data to support optimization of managerial decisions. 4. Domestic & Global Environment: Students will articulate the complexity and diversity of today's domestic and global business environment and the impact of internationalization on business. 5. Communication Skills: Students will demonstrate competency in writing and speaking effectively and professionally as well as interpersonal and team skills in the business environment. 6. Ethics: Students will articulate current issues in business and ethics and demonstrate the integration of ethical analysis into the strategic management process. Internship Opportunities Marymount Manhattan students benefit from New York City's sophisticated business environment with its vast array of Wall Street, Madison Avenue and Fortune 500 companies. Students majoring in Accounting at MMC are offered the opportunity to take part-time internship positions with local public accounting firms. Sophomore Accounting majors can arrange to work 10-20 hours per week in small local businesses. By their junior year, they can earn, in addition to a salary, valuable work experience before they graduate. Accounting faculty work closely with students providing internship advisement and access to a wide range of financial corporations and banks. Internship opportunities include: Deloitte & Touche Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Ernst & Young Estee Lauder Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Where do you go from here? Career Opportunities Public Accounting Corporate Accountant Assistant Controller to CFO Forensic Accounting Information Technology Environmental Accounting International Mergers Political Entrepreneur View more details on Marymount Manhattan College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Accountancy courses.