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BBA/MBA in Finance and Master of Business Administration (BBA/MBA) with a Finance concentration

The Department of Economics, Finance, and Decision Information Sciences offers the BBA/MBA program. Upon successful completion of the degree requirements, students are simultaneously awarded a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and a Master of Business Administration. To complete this program, students must complete the following course requirements.

University Core Requirements (60 hours)
Philosophy & Theology 24
English 12
History 6
Foreign Language 6
Natural Sciences 8
Fine Arts 3
Odyssey 1

BBA Requirements (54 hours)
ACCT 1341 Principles of Accounting I
ACCT 1342 Principles of Accounting II
DEIS 4333 Principles of Operations Management
ECON 1331 Principles of Macroeconomics
ECON 1332 Principles of Microeconomics
ECON 3331 International Economics
FINA 3339 Principles of Corporate Finance
MATH 1353 Mathematics for Economics and Business
MATH 3332 Elementary Statistical Methods
MGMT 3320 Business Communications
MGMT 3347 Principles of Management
MGMT 3390 Management Information Systems
MGMT 4331 Business Law
MKTG 3343 Principles of Marketing
Students in the BBA/MBA can
substitute ONE of the following at the graduate level:

Finance Core (9 hours)
FINA 3334 International Financial Management
FINA 3335 Financial Institutions and Markets
FINA 3350 Investment Analysis
FINA 4350 Risk Management

Finance Electives (6 hours from below)
ACCT 3336 Financial Statement Analysis
FINA 4340 Capital Budgeting
FINA 3349 Principles of Real Estate
FINA 4391 Internship in Finance

Accounting Required Courses (15 credit hours) 
ACCT 3333 -  Income Taxation I
ACCT 3334  - Income Taxation II
ACCT 3341  - Intermediate Accounting: Assets
ACCT 3342  - Intermediate Accounting: Equities
ACCT 4338  - Accounting Systems

Accounting Additional Required Courses (3 credit hours from below)
Students in the BBA/MBA in Accounting must take one of the following courses. The course that is not taken must be substituted at the graduate level as part of the Accounting Concentration Courses:

ACCT 3332  - Managerial Accounting
ACCT 4333  - Principles of Auditing

Accounting Electives (3 credit hours from the following)
ACCT 3335  - Tax Practice
ACCT 3336  - Financial Statement Analysis
ACCT 4191/4291/4391  - Internship in Accounting (3 credit hours maximum)
ACCT 4335 – Fund Accounting (of chosen, Acct 5360 from the MBA Accounting Elective may not be taken)
ACCT 4393  - Special Topics in Accounting

MBA CORE (27 hours)
MBA 5315 Operations Management and Supply Chain
MBA 5318 Financial Management
MBA 5320 Marketing Management Theory
MBA 5322 Organizational Behavior
MBA 5326 International Economics
MBA 5357 Management Information Systems
MBA 5370 Applied Strategic Management
MBA Accounting Required Courses (9 credit hours)
ACCT 5330 – Advanced Accounting
ACCT 5331 – Financial Accounting Theory
ACCT 5399 – Professional Ethics and Social Responsibility

MBA Accounting Additional Required Course (3 credit hours)
Students in the BBA/MBA must take one of the following courses. The course must be the equivalent graduate course of the course that was NOT take from the list in the undergraduate

Accounting Additional Required Course:
Acct 5313 – Managerial Accounting
Acct 5333 – Auditing

MBA Accounting Elective (3 credit hours):
ACCT 5353 – Federal Tax Concepts for Individuals
ACCT 5360 – Governmental/Non-for-Profit Accounting (may be taken only if ACCT 4335 from BBA Accounting Elective was not taken)
ACCT 5362 – Taxation of Business Entities
ACCT 5366 – Comparative Accounting Practices
ACCT 5391 – Internship in Accounting
ACCT 5397 – Forensic Accounting

Finance Elective (9 hours from below – at least 6 from Finance)
MBA 5319 Investment Theory
MBA 5330 International Finance
MBA 5331 Financial Institutions and Markets
MBA 5341 Futures, Swaps, and Options
MBA XXX Graduate nonfinance elective

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