Accounting

Do you love to solve puzzles and revel in details? Put that love of order to good use and become part of the glue that holds businesses together with a degree in Accounting.

Why Accounting at Andrews

Learn from professors with a unique blend of international and domestic, managerial and analytical, research and practical accounting experience!

Profit from free accounting tutoring or become an accounting tutor yourself for additional experience!

Broaden your accounting experience by volunteering with the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program through Enactus or join our Accounting Club for exposure to professionals in the field and camaraderie with your peers.

Connect with our successful and growing accounting alumni mentoring network, and listen to professionals speak on maintaining integrity and honesty in business as part of our “Excellence in Business Speakers” series.

Build a unique, biblically-based and ethically strong business foundation. Our “Scriptural Foundations of Business” series ensures that faith is integrated into the classroom on a daily basis.

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Internship Opportunities

Explore internship and career opportunities at our annual School of Business Administration career fair. Enhance your resume by joining one of our business student organizations such as ENACTUS, the Financial Management Association, our Accounting Club, or the Dean’s Student Advisory Council which plans fun events like banquets and vespers.

An Internship can be an excellent way to get experience as well as a foot in the door to a potential future employer. Internships help you put into practice the information and knowledge you are taught here in the class room.

At the School of Business, we have many of these opportunities for you. Our students have gotten internships at places like Adventist Health Systems, Kettering Health Network, JP Morgan, Whirlpool and Crowe Horwath (plus many more).

Accounting students have the opportunity through Crowe Horwath’s “Crowe on Campus” program, to get an internship on campus, getting class credit, and getting paid! That’s right… Getting paid $15.50/hour. From here, a lot of these interns will be offered full time positions working for Crowe Horwath.

These internship opportunities are what help transition you from a School of Business Administration student to a business professional. We can help you find the right place to make this transition!

Careers in Accounting

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A Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting is a starting point for career success. All businesses—from small businesses and giant corporations to hospitals and government offices—employ accounting professionals to help maintain their day-to-day operations. After graduation, become an accountant, auditor, budget analyst, healthcare administrator, or financial analyst or use your BBA as a stepping stone to becoming a certified public accountant, certified internal auditor, or certified management accountant to increase your marketability.

Annual Salaries

Accountant or Auditor

$67,190

Tax Examiner

$51,430

Accounting Clerk

$37,250

(Source for all statistics: Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2016-17 Edition)

Salaries for accounting graduates range broadly depending on the industry, profit versus non-profit, location, experience and job position.

Successful Andrews Alumni

Kristin Bakewell Sorenson, Audit Manager

General Conference Auditing Service (the Seventh-day Adventist Church)

Paul Smith, Senior Manager

Crowe Horwath LLP

Ryan Thornhill, Senior Manager

Ernst & Young Professional Services Organization

Take your knowledge overseas on one of our summer study tours. Earn course credit, see the sights, and tour global businesses in Hong Kong, Australia, France and other countries.

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Our accounting courses teach fundamental skills like critical thinking, analyzing, attention to detail, and integrity. You will benefit from highly experience professors who will teach you the techniques for everything from Cost Analysis and Individual Taxation to Auditing and Advanced Accounting. Gain practical experience through community outreach and internship opportunities. Contact us directly at studysba@andrews.edu to learn more!

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