Accounting at St. Kate’s

Accounting is not about crunching numbers — it’s about understanding the whole financial picture to make good business decisions and clearly communicating the implications.

There’s an emphasis today on people going into accounting who can think critically and analytically with a strong foundation of values. That is what companies are craving — and St. Kate’s prepares you to fit that bill.

At St. Kate’s, you study and apply the accounting skills and financial principles with which to make sound, ethical decisions while honing your communication and critical thinking skills.

Learning what it takes

St. Kate’s accounting major gives you hands-on technical and technological skills. For example, you conduct an actual audit in the auditing course. During the Accounting Practicum you put new skills to work inside a business and assess the results.

Intensive core courses — from auditing and taxation to financial, managerial and cost accounting — prepare you for the diverse fields in which accountants function. In addition to the year of required intermediate accounting, you can take upper-level accounting electives that pave your path to the CPA exam.

You also cover the knowledge bases all business professionals need: management, economics, business law, psychology or sociology, statistical analysis and technology.

Learning the way accountants work

Accounting work is both intensely individual and inherently collaborative. St. Kate’s small classes, generally 12–20, foster creative interaction with women like you: smart, ambitious and focused.

Not solely lecture-based, classes involve discussion, case studies, problems and mentoring. It’s a personal, active learning style that employs teamwork methods common in businesses ... and frees you to speak up with the self-assurance vital to women in organizations.