Accounting

The School of Business offers students an engaging experience in accounting. All of our accounting professors hold master's degrees or above, are Certified Public Accountants (CPA), and have extensive professional experience in the field. Our 80-unit major curriculum prepares students for a number of applicable careers with a real-world focus on learning and the course experience.

Career Outlook

 


4% Job Market Growth

$79,880 Median Salary

Very Diverse

 

The median annual wage for accountants and auditors was $79,880 in May 2023. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $50,440, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $137,280.
In May 2023, the median annual wages for accountants and auditors in the top industries in which they worked were as follows:

  • Finance and insurance $83,250
  • Management of companies and enterprises $82,620
  • Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping, and payroll services $79,410
  • Government $79,130

Program Stats

Our Alumni Work in these Occupations

  • Accountants and Auditors
    36
  • Financial Managers
    16
  • C-Suite Executives
    8
  • General and Operations Managers
    7
  • Financial Analysis and Investment Specialists
    4
  • Auditors
    4
  • Office Managers and Administrative Supervisors
    3

Our Alumni Work Here

  • Adventist Health
    7
  • Loma Linda University
    3
  • Amazon.com, Inc.
    2
  • General Conference Auditing Service
    2
  • Providence Health & Services
    2
  • Bdo Usa, LLP
    2
  • Prime Healthcare Services Inc
    2

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Demonstrate understanding of key issues and the acquisition of key skills related to:

    • accounting
    • business ethics
    • finance
    • management
    • marketing
    • quantitative business tools
    • the economic environment of business
    • the international environment of business
    • the legal environment of business
    • the social environment of business
  2. Integrate understandings of and skills related to functional business areas and relevant environmental contexts in the course of strategic business decision making.

Partial information in this page was retrieved from Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Accountants and Auditors, at https://www.bls.gov/ooh/business-and-financial/accountants-and-auditors.htm (visited April 17, 2024).