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Faculty

Office: Sellinger Hall, Room 318
Telephone: 410‑617‑6772

Chair: JP Krahel, Professor

Professors: JP Krahel; Alfred R. Michenzi (emeritus); Jalal Soroosh; Bobby Waldrup
Associate Professors: Kermit O. Keeling (emeritus); Ali M. Sedaghat (emeritus); Hong Zhu
Assistant Professors: Robbie Bishop-Monroe; Stacy Chavez; E. Barry Rice (emeritus)
Executive in Residence: Michael Bender
Affiliate Faculty: Walter B. Doggett III; Joszef Micek; John McPherson

Loyola's Accounting department offers courses in both the undergraduate and graduate business programs. The accounting discipline is designed to prepare students for the many opportunities in the field of accounting. The study of accounting includes courses in financial accounting, cost accounting, taxation, auditing, and related fields. These courses are designed to provide our students with the appropriate knowledge and skills to understand the function of accounting in the firm and in society and to be effective decision makers. In addition to offering relevant courses, the Accounting department sponsors a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) clinic and the Eta Upsilon chapter of the Beta Alpha Psi national accounting honor society.

Learning Aims

The Accounting major helps students acquire the knowledge and skills needed to establish successful careers in accounting, auditing, and taxation. The learning goals include:

1. Demonstrate an appropriate mastery of the knowledge, skills, and tools of financial and managerial accounting principles.
2. Demonstrate competency in utilizing the Accounting Codification System, Internal Revenue Code, and other sources of accounting and taxation rules to search for authoritative answers to specific accounting and tax issues.
3. Demonstrate ability to analyze ethically challenging situations according to an established ethical framework.
4. Demonstrate ability to communicate financial information effectively and with technological agility in written and oral formats.

Programs

• Accounting, BBA

• Accounting Minor

Courses

• AC 201 - Financial Accounting
• AC 202 - Managerial Accounting
• AC 301 - Intermediate Accounting I
• AC 302 - Intermediate Accounting II
• AC 303  -  Intermediate Accounting III
• AC 310 - Accounting Lab
• AC 311 - Cost Accounting
• AC 315 - International Travel Course: Comparative Business
• AC 320 - International Accounting: Study Tour
• AC 401 - Advanced Accounting
• AC 402 - Auditing of Accounting Information Systems
• AC 409 - Individual Income Tax
• AC 412 - Taxation of Business Entities
• AC 420  -  Forensic Accounting
• AC 421 - Auditing
• AC 459 - Research Topics in Accounting
• AC 495  -  Basic Volunteer Income Tax Assistance
• AC 496  -  Advanced Volunteer Tax Assistance
• AC 498 - Accounting Internship (100 Hours)
• AC 499 - Accounting Internship (150 Hours)

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