Internship In Accounting

Catalog description

Professional work experience with a business firm or governmental agency in some phase of public, private, or governmental accounting. The work situation must create a new learning experience for the student. Credit hours in this course may be used only as elective business hours and will not count toward the minimum 63 hours of accounting, business, and economics hours required of the BBA candidate nor will they count toward the minimum twenty-four hours of accounting required of accounting majors. Internship credit hours will be counted in the maximum School of Business hours an accounting major may earn within a 120-hour program. The student’s grade will be awarded on a pass-fail basis, as determined by the supervising faculty member. Prerequisites: Admission to the School of Business, consent of the accounting faculty, appropriate academic background, at least 75 semester credit hours, at least a 2.5 overall grade average, and meet the general qualifications specified by the sponsoring business firm or governmental agency.