BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
ACCOUNTING CPA
Overview | Accounting CPA
Maranatha’s Accounting degree offers you a world of opportunities beyond the job market. Besides making you profoundly employable, it enables you to help your local church with budgeting and internal accounting systems. This degree can also grant you entry into restricted-access countries, allowing you to share your faith more freely than typical missionaries can.
MBU graduates consistently score above the national average on the CPA exam. Maranatha has an outstanding faculty, qualified and eager to prepare you for success in the accounting industry.
The CPA-track major provides all the courses, content, and credits to meet the state board requirements for CPA licensure in an undergraduate degree.
Program Outcomes
- Students will demonstrate knowledge of accounting terminology and concepts.
- Students will demonstrate the ability to solve accounting problems.
- Students will demonstrate skill in written and oral communication.
- Students will demonstrate expertise in using technology.
- Students will demonstrate Christian character and application of Biblical principles.
- Students will gain employment or pursue graduate education in accounting or a related field.
Suggested Course Schedule
Semester 1
Introduction to Business & Management (3)
Computer Applications (3)
Principles of Accounting 1 (3)
Old Testament Survey (3)
English Composition 1 (3)
Total Credits: 15
Semester 2
Principles of Accounting 2 (3)
New Testament Survey (3)
English Composition 2 (3)
Probability and Statistics (3)
Music Elective (2)
Fundamentals of Public Speaking (2)
Total Credits: 16
Semester 1
Principles of Marketing (3)
Principles of Management (3)
Macroeconomics (3)
The Modern World (3)
Christian Life, Leadership, and Evangelism (3)
Literature Elective (3)
Total Credits: 18
Semester 2
Business Communication (3)
Microeconomics (3)
Calculus 1* (5)
Baptist Heritage (3)
American Studies Elective^ (3)
Bible Elective^ (3)
Science Elective (3)
Total Credits: 17/18
*Communication & Analytical Component
^Organizational Leadership Concentration
Semester 1
Intermediate Accounting 1 (3)
Business Law 1 (3)
Federal Taxation 1 (3)
Accounting/Business Elective (3)
Managerial Cost Accounting (3)
Bible Doctrine 1 or 2 (3)
Total Credits: 18
Semester 2
Intermediate Accounting 2 (3)
Accounting Information Systems (3)
Personal Financial Planning or
Accounting/Business Elective (3)
Theories & Models of Leadership^ (3)
Component Elective* (3)
Accounting/Business Elective (3)
Bible Doctrine 1 or 2 (3)
Total Credits: 18
*Communication & Analytical Component
^Organizational Leadership Concentration
Semester 1
Business Strategy (3)
Business Finance (3)
Auditing (3)
Data Analytics (3)
Federal Taxation 2 or Accounting/Business Elective (3)
Organizational Behavior^ (3)
Bible Elective* (3)
Total Credits: 18
Semester 2
Business Capstone & Entrepreneuership (3)
Government & Not-for-profit Accounting or
Accounting/Business Elective (3)
Advanced Accounting or Accounting/Business Elective (3)
Accounting/Business Elective (3)
Organizational Communication^ (3)
Component Elective* (2)
Total Credits: 14/15
*Communication & Analytical Component
^Organizational Leadership Concentration
Semester 1
Accounting/Business Elective (3)
Theological & Historical Foundations of Leadership^ (3)
Bible Elective (3)
American Studies Elective* (3)
Open Elective (5)
Open Elective* (2)
Total Credits: 14/16
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Related Majors
Accounting Management
Business Management
Digital Media Marketing
Related Minors
Accounting Management
Business Management
Marketing Management
Digital Media Communications
Organizational Leadership
Potential Career Fields
Certified Public Accountant
Certified Management Accountant
Forensic accountant
Financial analyst
Tax consultant
Financial planner
Auditor
Budget analyst
Chief financial officer
*Some careers and employment positions require graduate degrees,
specialized training, or addtional certification and licenses.
MBU Program Faculty
Tracy Foster
School of Business | Dean
Credentials
DBA, Walden University
MBA, Syracuse University
BS, Montana State University
CPA, CGMA, and CDFM-A
Jeff Drost
School of Business | Professor
Credentials
PHD, Regent University
BM, Graduate School of Banking, University of Madison
BS Business Management, Cardinal Stritch University
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