Accounting

• Enhance your classroom knowledge with business seminars on career strategies and issues affecting markets, personal sessions with mentors, and networking events with successful business professionals both on- and off-campus.
• Set yourself apart with a minor in one of Chatham’s other undergraduate business programs (management, marketing, international business, economics, or applied data science analytics), or in another field such as psychology or communication.
• Qualified students may be eligible for Chatham’s Master of Business Administration (MBA) or other Integrated Degree Programs, saving money and decreasing the time to acquire both bachelor’s and master’s degrees.
• All students complete a capstone seminar that channels the knowledge they’ve accumulated into a discipline-specific project under close faculty guidance.
• Chatham’s School of Business & Enterprise promotes student engagement with members of the professional community by bringing accounting professionals to campus for networking events; taking students to conferences and career events off campus; and connecting students and professional associations. Some examples of the associations and organizations we have connected students to include Deloitte, Schneider Downs, Pennsylvania Institute for CPAs (PICPA), Institute for Management Accountants (IMA), and Financial Executives Institute (FEI).

Auditing

The course engages the student in a study of auditing objectives, standards, and procedures employed in the examination of business enterprises and verification of their financial statements. Topics include an evaluation of internal control, preparation of work papers, report writing, professional ethics, and current auditing trends.

Cost Analysis

This course introduces students to the role cost considerations play in management decision making. Topics include the classification and allocation of costs, job order and process costing, standard costs, budgeting and planning, cost-volume-profit analysis, and using costs as performance measurements.

Accounting Information Systems

This course examines critical business processes and IT audits through theories of Accounting Information Systems (AIS) and using auditing tools and enterprise systems. Case analyses and project assignments nurture professional competence in communicating objectives and procedures through systems documentation techniques, systems analysis and design methodologies, and information processing.