I’m not quite sure how to start this since I’m kind of in between majors at the moment, but I shall try my best. I am just going to mention a few of the upper-core division classes for the Accounting major. I don’t see a lot of stock in talking about the actually ACTG XXX classes since they are all about accounting and what I’d get out of them are pretty obvious.
FIN 316 Financial Management – This would prove useful from a finance standpoint. As similar as they may seem, accounting and finance are different majors/concentrations, so getting a glimpse of it in this class would be helpful when I’m actually in an accounting position at some firm or business; I’ll be able to understand a lot more.
MGMT 321 Managing Organizations – I have a very leadership oriented personality–accountants are seen as the people that work in the background, but hopefully this class would teach me a better way to use accounting and my natural leadership skills to get the type of position I would best fit in.
BE 325 Global, Legal, and Social Environment of Business – I’ve always been interested in law, though I’ve never seen myself as a lawyer, so this would be a nice refresher course on the other side of business: legality and ethics.
BA 453 Business Strategy and Planning – I see majoring in Accounting as a base for the business-like things I plan on accomplishing. Being able to function in the business world with the basic skills of strategizing and planning will be very useful to learn.
These are just some of the classes I think would be quite interesting to take once I get in the business school. If need be, I’ll add more.
– Ro