Accounting and Information Systems

Website: www.iup.edu/accounting
Sekhar Anantharaman, Chair

The Accounting undergraduate program at the Eberly College of Business recently achieved separate accounting accreditation by the AACSB, the premier accrediting body for business schools in the world. The program is one of only two accounting programs in the western Pennsylvania region to have achieved this special accreditation. Worldwide there are only about 194 accounting programs that have this separate accounting accreditation, which is the ultimate endorsement of quality.

Accounting majors receive instruction in financial reporting system design and analysis, managerial accounting, taxation, and forensic accounting leading to career opportunities in public, industry, and government accounting.

MIS majors - the Information Systems track prepares students for careers in computer-based information systems in organizational environments. Integrates areas such as networking, cybersecurity, and user/manager involvement in the global business environment with the traditional skills of programming, analysis and design, database development, architecture designs, and application development. Project management, Internet of Things (IoT), and client server applications are included, as well as an emphasis on business computing issues such as profitability, budgeting, collaboration, and front end/back-end system processing.