<p>I am currently attending Cal State Fullerton (Business Admin Major) and I am about to begin courses that apply towards a specific concentration. </p>
<p>The school is accredited by the AACSB for the business administration and accounting programs. </p>
<p>Here is my dilemma,</p>
<p>1) Concentration in Accounting
2) Joint Emphasis Accounting/Information Systems
3) Joint Emphasis Accounting/Finance</p>
<p>I have interest in computers and was originally going to major in Information Systems but was deterred by several factors. Would companies prefer the joint emphasis? I wouldn't mind either one as I am interested in all 3 subjects. Your feedback would be much appreciated!</p>
<p>I am currently going to Nevada and they have a joint Acct./IS major that I almost did. Then I talked to the dean. He said that the problem with that major is you don’t really learn enough acct. to be an accountant and you don’t really learn enough IS to be a systems person. You get stuck in some stupid limbo.</p>
<p>So then I decided I would major in Acct. and minor in Systems, but after talking to my father who is a partner at an Acct. Firm I decided to minor in Finance. I might go back to Sys. but right now I’m thinking Fin. is the way to go.</p>
<p>I just graduated in December 2010 from Cal State Fullerton with the joint emphasis in Acct/Fin. I took the whole program and I think a lot of the material became redundant. Especially the Forecasting/Budgeting class. If I could go back, I would do the joint Acct/IS emphasis. Because most accounting jobs ask for knowledge of computer programs (oracle, excel, sap, etc) so the IS will be handy. Computer skills can allow you to get into a business analyst role as well. IMO the finance classes are not much help unless you want to be an financial analyst. Accounting emphasis alone will allow you to sit for the cpa right away. But a joint emphasis is only a few jr college accounting classes away from being able to sit. And I think having a joint emphasis won’t disadvantage you. I think employers want more well rounded workers nowadays. But you can always do both whole emphasis as in IS and Accounting maybe by then the job market would improve.</p>
<p>Aren’t the Oracle, Excel, and SAP programs covered in the Acct 307 Accounting Information Systems course? I was hoping the Joint Emphasis would have been enough to sit for the CPA. How can I find out how many additional classes I would need to take to sit for it?</p>
<p>24 semester units in accounting-related subjects, I think this would include managerial and financial accounting. So the joint emphasis programs require 5 accounting courses + 2 lower division, if you took all the courses at Fullerton then you would need 1 more course. If you took the lower division at a community college then you might have enough units being that some community colleges give more units for the managerial and financial. Some community colleges teach tax courses too so that would be to your benefit if you did the joint emphasis. The best people to ask about this kind of stuff are your Accounting professors, (the good ones) they could tell you where to find additional info about the CPA. Google CPA forums and requirements too. Plus if you decide to take the Becker review, those can count as units towards your requirement. </p>
<p>Regarding 307, all teachers teach it differently at Fullerton, some use Excel while others use other programs. Oracle is taught in IS classes but I don’t think in 307. And from what I hear, 307 isn’t hard just time consuming and tedious.</p>