Business Administration, B.L.A.

A major must include 11 courses:

• ACC-111 Principles of Financial Accounting
• ACC-301 Principles of Managerial Accounting
• BUS-320 Marketing Principles
• BUS-330 Operations Management
• BUS-340 Introduction to Finance and Markets
• BUS-350 Business Law
• BUS-450 Strategic Management
• CSC-105 Intro to Computer Science
• ECN-111 Introduction to Economics
• ECN-225 Statistics for Economics and Business
• ENG-211 Professional Communication

and, at least four more courses focused on topics in accounting, business or economics:

• ACC-311 Intermediate Financial Accounting I
• ACC-312 Intermediate Financial Accounting II
• ACC-320 Cost Accounting
• ACC-330 Auditing
• ACC-340 Federal Income Taxation
• ACC-350 Accounting Information Systems
• ACC-360 International Accounting
• ACC-370 Advanced Financial Accounting
• BUS-230 Problem Solving and Decision Making for Management
• BUS-300 Chinese Business Practices
• BUS-305 Global Sustainability
• BUS-311 International Business
• BUS-312 Sustainable Corporation
• BUS-315 Human Resource Management
• BUS-321 Marketing Strategy
• BUS-325 Digital Marketing
• BUS-331 Operations and Technology Management
• BUS-335 Management Information Systems
• BUS-337 Business Analytics
• BUS-341 Introduction to Corporate Finance
• BUS-360 Performance Management Analysis
• BUS-411 Entrepreneurship and New Venture Development
• BUS-420 Marketing Research
• BUS-421 International Marketing
• BUS-422 Integrated Marketing Communications
• BUS-423 Consumer Behavior
• BUS-430 Integrated Process Improvement
• BUS-440 Investments Management
• BUS-441 International Finance
• BUS-442 Financial Institutions
• ECN-233 Economics of Gender
• ECN-234 Urban Economics
• ECN-235 Population, Economy and Society
• ECN-236 Economics of the Environment
• ECN-237 Economics of Poverty and Inequality
• ECN-238 Public Finance
• ECN-241 Money and Banking
• ECN-242 Health Economics
• ECN-243 Economic Growth and Development
• ECN-247 History of Economic Thought
• ECN-248 Government and Business
• ECN-249 Asian Economics
• ECN-250 Labor Economics
• ECN-251 Economics of China
• ECN-252 International Trade Theory and Policy
• ECN-253 International Macroeconomic Theory and Policy
• ECN-256 Economics of Strategy
• ECN-263 African Economic Development
• ECN-331 Empirical Methods in Economics
• ECN-345 Intermediate Macroeconomics Analysis
• ECN-346 Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis
• ECN-356 Managerial Economics
• ECN-357 Quantitative Methods for Business and Economics
• ECN-371 Economic and Political Analysis of the European Union

State CPA Requirements

Most states require applicants for the CPA examination to complete 150 credits of undergraduate or graduate course work, including specified study in accounting and business administration. Students may choose to complete a course of study to satisfy the state’s educational requirements for the CPA examination and earn a B.L.A. with majors in both accounting and business administration as well.