<p>This could be completely wrong but I heard you can major in accounting even if you don't get into the business school. Is this true?</p>
<p>There is no accounting major (even for Ross students), but you can still take the essential accounting courses without being in Ross: ACC 271, 272, 312, 315. Those are the prerequisites for the MAcc program.</p>
<p>Ross is not accounting focus and it does not offer many accounting courses even for MAcc.</p>
<p>I agree that Ross isn't the place to study accounting at the undergrad level. It pretty much forces you to get a MAcc if you want a CPA. Those 4 courses are not enough for a CPA. Other schools that have an actual accounting major (Texas, UIUC, USC, NYU Stern) are structured much better and will prepare you with more advanced courses at the undergrad level (auditing, advanced financial accounting, federal taxation, etc.). However, once you do get a Michigan MAcc (those 4 courses are all you need to get in, you learn the rest once you're in the graduate program), you will have mastered accounting.</p>
<p>univ2011, i wasn't too sure about it, but my friend that was majoring in english said she was an accounting minor. the classes i know that she took were acc 271, 272, 312, 315.</p>
<p>There is also ACC 317 - Federal Taxation and Managerial Decisions, ACC 318 - Financial Statement Analysis, and ACC 335 - Applied Financial Analysis and Portofolio Management. I believe Ross students are also allowed to take one class at the graduate level, which could be in Accounting. Assuming you had enough other hours to meet the 150 hour requirement, you may be pretty close to being able to sit for the CPA exam. I believe Auditing is one required class that is not available at the undergraduate level.</p>
<p>Also advanced financial accounting and federal taxation (317 is not the "real" federal taxation course but is rather a non-technical overview of tax implications). No laws or anything.</p>