Businesses need financial experts with excellent character, strong ethics and integrity, and superb accounting acumen. Courses in our accounting major curriculum will prepare you to successfully complete your Uniform Certified Public Accounting Exam (CPA® Exam), step directly into a career, or pursue your Master of Business Administration (MBA).
Your attention to detail and dedication to ethics will serve you well as an accounting major at WLC. As part of our liberal arts program, you’ll experience an accounting major designed to give you a well-rounded education rooted in Christian values. Professors in the program have real-world accounting experience in both public and corporate settings, bringing practical examples to the classroom.
Your core accounting courses will help you hone your skills in:
- Analysis
- Business administration
- Communication
- Critical thinking
- Ethical decision making
- Mathematics
These skills prepare majors for success in such fields as:
- Accounting
- Asset management
- Auditing
- Tax consulting
- Wealth management
- Other financial services
In fact, our graduates are so well prepared they are receiving national recognition - recently, the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) ranked WLC second in the state, fifth among small schools, and 19th in the nation for accounting students passing the CPA® Exam on their first attempt!
