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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Accounting (BS) Sample Plan


YEAR ONE

Fall Spring
EN - 103 Composition and Rhetoric I                                                      3 EN - 104 Composition and Rhetoric II         3
PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking  or Expanded Literacies (1/6) 3 PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking  or Expanded Literacies (1/6) 3
UNIV - 101 First-Year Experience   3 MA - 111 Probability and Statistics  (Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Mathematical  Reasoning - 2/6) 3
AB - 217 Financial Accounting   3 AB - 219 Managerial Accounting   3
MK - 201 Principles of Marketing   3 AB - 272 The Legal Environment of Business   3
    FN - 100 Financial Literacy   1
Total Credits 15 Total Credits 16

YEAR TWO

Fall Spring
TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Expanded Literacies (3/6) 3 TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Expanded Literacies (3/6) 3
Expanded Literacies (4/6) 3 Expanded Literacies (6/6) 3
MG - 220 Data Analysis   3 MG - 201 Principles of Management   3
AB - 301 Corporate Financial Reporting I   4 AB - 302 Corporate Financial Reporting II   3
EC - 209 Principles of Macroeconomics  (Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Social Analysis 5/6) 3 EC - 210 Principles of Microeconomics   3
    UNIV 110   1
Total Credits 16   16

YEAR THREE

 
Fall Spring  
Lens 1, 2, or 3 (1/3) 3 Lens 1, 2, or 3 (2/3) 3
AB - 322 Federal Income Taxation   3 AB - 345 Data Analytics for Accounting and Finance   3
FN - 331 Financial Management   3 Free Elective 3
Free Elective 3 Free Elective 3
Free Elective 3 Free Elective 3
Total Credits 15   15

YEAR FOUR

Fall Spring
Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 1, 2, or 3 (3/3) 3 Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 1, 2, or 3 (3/3) 3
AB - 453 Auditing   3 AB - 452 Strategic Cost Management   3
Free Elective or MBA Course* 3 Free Elective or MBA Course* (Winter) 3
Free Elective or MBA Course* 3 Free Elective 3
MG - 4000 Business Capstone   1 Free Elective 3
Total Credits 13 Total Credits 15

Total Overall Credits: 121

*4+1 BS/MBA: The Accounting Department offers a Bachelor’s to Masters (4+1) program that enables qualifying students to register for MBA courses during their senior year. For more information, see the DeSales University Graduate Catalog and consult with the MBA Program Director.

For more information about the requirements in our general education Connections Curriculum, which are included in the sample plan above, please see I. General Education (Connections Curriculum), which can be found in The Undergraduate Program .