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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.
Program Offered
Accounting
Bachelor of Science
Quick Facts
Level
Undergraduate
Location
La Sierra Campus
Accreditation
WASC
- Curriculum Sheet
Description:
Students studying accounting at La Sierra will build a foundation for specialized accounting careers, as well as other related careers in the world of business and finance. With a more narrow focus than finance or economics, accounting students will gain skills in the areas of financial accounting, cost accounting, auditing, tax practice, management advisory services, internal auditing, and micro/macroeconomics.
Choose the remaining 4 units from upper division Accounting & Finance classes. |
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 Auditors36
- Financial Managers16
- C-Suite Executives8
- General and Operations Managers7
- Financial Analysis and Investment Specialists4
- Auditors4
- Office Managers and Administrative Supervisors3
Our Alumni Work Here
- Adventist Health7
- Loma Linda University3
- Amazon.com, Inc.2
- General Conference Auditing Service2
- Providence Health & Services2
- Bdo Usa, LLP2
- Prime Healthcare Services Inc2
Student Learning Outcomes
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
Integrate understandings of and skills related to functional business areas and relevant environmental contexts in the course of strategic business decision making.
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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).
