You will also meet the accounting course requirements to be eligible to sit for several certification exams and to continue in graduate studies in accounting or business. The accounting faculty is dedicated to providing you excellent instruction in the field and to expanding the number of course offerings to address your needs as you seek employment in this growing, demanding profession. The full-time faculty are supported by adjunct faculty members who are currently practicing in their field of expertise. Current adjunct faculty members include practitionersin public, industry, and government accounting. As a senior or eligible junior, you may elect to spend your last semester or the summer between your junior and senior year as an intern in an accounting area of your choice.
Accountants play a key role on the management team in most organizations.
Accountants serve as chief financial officers, controllers, internal auditors, treasurers, cost analysts, budget directors, tax analysts, tax agents, systems analysts and consultants. Their understanding of the internal operations of an organization often serves as an excellent basis for progressing to executive positions. The career skills needed by accountants have been greatly influenced by technological change and the globalization of trade. Since computers have become the primary processors of data, the accountant's job has become that of consultant, helping to identify the organization's information needs, interpreting accounting information and using accounting information to make decisions about the future. Four Year Course Projection The Coordinator of Academic Advisement and the division and department chairs have produced sample four-year schedules for each of the majors offered at William Woods University.