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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Accounting, Forensic Accounting Track (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 Litreracies (6/6) 3
MG - 220 Data Analysis   3 MG - 201 Principles of Management   3
AB - 301 Corporate Financial Reporting I   3 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 Being Well   1
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 16

YEAR THREE

Fall Spring
Lens 1, 2, or 3 (1/3) 3 Lens 1, 2, or 3 (2/3) 3
Free Elective  3 AB - 324 Regulation   3
AB - 322 Federal Income Taxation   3 AB - 345 Data Analytics for Accounting and Finance   3
FN - 331 Financial Management   3 CJ - 375 White Collar Crime   3
CJ - 109 Crime and Society   3 Free Elective 3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15

YEAR FOUR

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
AB - 463 Forensic Accounting  or AC 508 (MBA) 3 MG 233   3
Free Elective 3 Free Elective 3
MG - 4000 Business Capstone   1 Free Elective 3
TOTAL CREDITS 13 TOTAL CREDITS 15

TOTAL OVERALL CREDITS: 122

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 .

**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.