Accounting

As an accounting major you should take the following placement tests:

Directed Self Placement (DSP) Course (to determine which rhetoric and composition course to take.

Accounting Major Requirements and 4 Year Degree Planner »

As a first year student, you should register for the following classes:

1. Begin your Core A2 Rhetoric and Composition writing requirement (4-6 credits)
2. ECON 110 - Introductory Economics (4 credits)
3. MATH 106 - Business Statistics (4 credits)
4. University Core course (4 credits)
5. BUS 100 - Launch into Business (2 credits; must be enrolled in RHET 110 or 120)

If you are a transfer student, please email Ben Bottorff at bbbottorff@usfca.edu

For any other questions, email somundergrad@usfca.edu or call the Office of Undergraduate Studies at (415) 422-2369 during business hours.

The first step towards taking the CPA exam and applying for the CPA license is reviewing the education requirements of your state’s Board pf Accountancy. A state Board of Accountancy establishes the education requirements and determines the eligibility of candidates for attempting the CPA exam. A State Board of Accountancy also controls the licensing of CPA’s and the renewals of the licenses. Since USF’s in is California, my information complies with the California Board of Accountancy educational and licensing requirements. For all states, you must pass the national CPA exam. This national CPA exam is administered by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).

This also means that the exam you take is the same regardless of where you take it. To be eligible to sit for the CPA exam in California, you will need to graduate with a bachelor’s degree with 24 credits of business-related subjects and 24 credits of accounting coursework.

A USF’ bachelor’s degree in business with an accounting major fulfills the requirements to sit for the CPA exam.

Once you pass the national CPA exam, you will then apply for CPA license. This license enables you to practice as a public account or auditor and as previously mentioned, is given by an individual state’s Board of Accountancy. Again, the laws of the state you want to practice in determine what you need to do to be eligible to take the CPA exam and afterwards to get your CPA license.

To practice in California, you will apply to the California State Board of Accountancy. At that time, you will document your completion of a minimum of 150 semester credits of college coursework to include an undergraduate degree or higher, 24 semester credits each in accounting and business-related subjects, 20 credits of accounting study, and 20 credits of ethics education.

The good news is that between some of your USF core coursework, School of Management coursework, and Accounting Major coursework, you have the opportunity to meet the 150 credit license requirements.

You must have a minimum of 3 semester credits of accounting ethics, specifically within the 10 credits of ethics study. To ensure this requirement will be met, USF offers a four credit elective course in accounting ethics. Please note that in order to put you in the best path for licensure in California, we advise you to complete more coursework than the minimum to sit for the CPA exam during your tenure at USF in order to prepare you for the 150 credits you will need to obtain for your state license. As we all know, it is easier to take classes while still in school versus when you are juggling your full-time job.

In addition, because many CPA firms require being “150 ready” as a hiring condition, we advise that you complete the 150 credits licensing requirement by the time you graduate.

For the California State Board of Accountancy, semester credits cannot be double counted in multiple categories but they can be split in categories. For example, auditing is a 4-credit course and the split could be 2-credits to be used toward the 10 credits of the ethics requirements and the other two could be used toward the accounting requirement. Meet with an accounting faculty member to review further the options you have.

The accounting faculty lead or any other faculty member from the Accounting department are happy to answer any questions you have.

Only international business majors have to fulfill a language requirement.

All other Bachelor of Science in Business Administration majors do not have to fulfill a language requirement.

If you want to take a language placement test, check out USF's placement tests.

To access your Degree Evaluation:

• Login myusf.usfca.edu/dashboard
• Click Banner Self-Service (Student)
• On the USF Student landing page for Banner Self-Service, select Degree Evaluation
• Your degree evaluation will be displayed

Prior To USF Transfer Credit Request

Please use this link to request updates or changes to your transfer credit from institutions attended prior to enrolling at the University of San Francisco. Once submitted a member of the Office of the University Registrar team will review your request and respond to you within 5-10 business days. Please be advised that in some circumstances, you may be asked to provide additional documentation such as a course syllabus.

Make sure that you've sent your most updated transcripts to USF. USF can only transfer classes that show a final grade for each class. Classes with grades of "In Progress" cannot be transferred. Please send transcripts to appservices@usfca.edu.

The Office of the University Registrar only evaluates Core curriculum and elective transfer credit. They cannot award credit for your major. It is important for you to review your major transfer credit with an academic advisor to avoid repeating courses for which you have received credit.  Please note, the Rhetoric and Composition (Core A2) and the Community Engaged Learning (CEL) requirements must be completed at USF.

Do Not Use this form for AP, IB, major, minor transfer credit:
For AP questions, email appservices@usfca.edu
For IB questions, email international@usfca.edu

For Transfer Credit questions, email transfercredit@usfca.edu

Please note: USF does not award credit for IB Higher Level English B or any Standard Level subjects.

Transfer Credit Request Form »

You will graduate from the School of Management with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration.

To graduate with a BS degree from the School of Management, you must successfully complete:

• a minimum degree of 120 credits;
• the core curriculum;
• a major requirement;
• and a language requirement, but only for International Business majors

You also must achieve:

• a minimum C cumulative grade point average;
• a minimum C average in all courses required in your major and minor (if applicable);
• you must complete at least 44 credits at USF;
• your last 32 credits of coursework must be completed at USF;
• a minimum of 16 upper division credits in your major must be completed at USF;
• and, if you are completing a minor, at least half of those credits have to be completed at USF.

All students must complete the core curriculum over the course of their academic career. The core curriculum is comprised of the following areas:

Core A1: Public Speaking

Core A2: Rhetoric and Composition

Core B1: Math

Core B2: Science

Core C1: Literature

Core C2: History

Core D1: Philosophy

Core D2: Theology and Religious Studies

Core D3: Ethics

Core E: Social Sciences

Core F: Visual and Performing Arts

Core CEL: Community Engaged Learning

Core CD: Cultural Diversity