Accounting is often considered to be the "language of
business." Managers of companies use accounting
information to help them with planning, controlling, and
decision-making activities associated with their
organizations. The accounting program within the
Accounting Department of the School of Business at
Central Connecticut State University prepares its
graduates for challenging positions in the business
world. Alumni of our program currently have industry
positions such as auditors in public accounting firms,
internal auditors in insurance companies, management
accountants in manufacturing firms, accountants in both
State and Federal government agencies (including
positions as special agents for the FBI), and management
consultants in consulting firms.
Are you interested?
If you would like additional information regarding the
programs of the Accounting Department, please contact the
department chairperson:
Lawrence P. (Larry) Grasso, Chair Department of Accounting
Professor of Accounting
School of Business
Central Connecticut State University
1615 Stanley Street, P.O. Box 4010
New Britain, CT 06050-4010
Tel. 860-832-3226
Fax. 860-832-3219
Email. grassola@ccsu.edu
CURRICULUM-UNDERGRADUATE
The
accounting program has been modernized within the past
several years in order to meet the changing demands of
the business world for accounting graduates. For
example, due to the extensive use of computers by
business firms, accountants working in industry today
are performing less and less "bookkeeping-type work."
Rather than being the bookkeeper types of persons,
accountants are working directly with firms' managers in
such functions as planning future business operations,
controlling day-to-day operating activities so that
efficiency and effectiveness occurs within the firms'
systems, and aiding managers in making daily business
decisions. The accounting program here at Central is
focused on preparing our accounting graduates to perform
the above types of functions.
Among
the required courses that all accounting majors take are
cost accounting, intermediate financial accounting, tax
accounting, accounting information systems, and
auditing. Elective courses can be taken in such areas as
governmental accounting, internal auditing, estates and
trusts, advanced cost accounting, advanced financial
accounting, and advanced tax accounting. Our department
also offers our majors the opportunity for independent
studies with individual faculty members on particular
accounting topics.
FACULTY
All
of the faculty within the Accounting Department have
practical business experience to supplement their
academic degrees. The practical business experience
enables the faculty to bring into the classroom what
goes on in the real business world. On the academic
side, our faculty have doctorate degrees from
universities such as Arizona State University, Oklahoma
State University, Michigan State University, Kent State
University, the University of Georgia, and the
University of Kansas. Besides their emphasis on
excellence in classroom teaching, most of our faculty
are involved in additional activities such as writing
college textbooks, publishing articles in professional
journals, presenting research papers at national
professional conferences, and performing consulting work
for business firms in the Hartford area.
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