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Accounting & Finance Department Honors Program

Objectives

  1. To provide outstanding students in accounting and finance with opportunities for academic enrichment and challenge beyond usual course coverage and requirements.
  2. To encourage more faulty-student scholarly interaction, including research collaboration.
  3. To encourage and allow outstanding students to pursue projects that require an understanding of relationships between different areas of accounting and finance.

Eligibility

Upper-class accounting and finance majors with resident, overall, and major GPAs of 3.50 or higher. Completion of Acct 201 and 202. Completion of Acct 301 for accounting majors. Completion of Fin 320 for finance majors.

Requirements

  1. Completion of a major in accounting and/or finance. Nine credits of regular accounting and/or finance courses taken for honors credit.
  2. To obtain honors credit, students must demonstrate additional scholarship through special research, projects, or assignments. through such additional honors work, students should be encouraged to focus on relationships between different areas of accounting and finance. Accounting classes taken for honors credit must be numbered above Accounting 301. Finance classes taken for honors credit must be numbered above Finance 320. One course must be elective for the major.
  3. Completion of the department's senior honors seminar, Acct/Fin 490. Through this seminar each student will complete a final honors project. That project will ordinarily result in a written report and an oral presentation to the seminar group and other interested faculty and students. Students will be encouraged to pursue projects that require an understanding of relationships between different areas of accounting and finance.
  4. At graduation, the student must have resident, overall, and major GPAs of 3.50 or higher.

Application to Program
Applicants must prepare a proposal listing courses to be taken for honors credit. The Departmental Honors Committee will approve candidates for admission to the departmental honors program and certify fulfillment of the requirements for graduation with departmental honors. The committee will be provided copies of all written reports and evaluations related to the student’s fulfillment of the departmental honors requirements.