The bachelor of science (BS) in business administration with an emphasis in accounting/master of science (MS) in finance is an accelerated degree combination primarily designed for students who plan to enter the accounting profession and are in need of at least 150 credit hours in order to sit for the Certified Public Accounting (CPA) exam.

General Requirements

The BS in business administration with an emphasis in accounting/MS in finance degree combination program requires a total of 144 credit hours which is a combination of undergraduate and graduate credit hours. A maximum of 90 credit hours may be accepted for transfer into the undergraduate program but only a maximum of 64 credit hours of lower-division work are allowed to transfer. A student must complete a minimum of 18 credit hours of undergraduate accounting courses at Webster University. No transfer credit is allowed for the graduate portion of the program.

Students must apply to the Business Department through the Office of Academic Advising for the graduate portion of the BS in business administration with an emphasis in accounting/MS in finance when they have accumulated between 64 and 98 credit hours and have successfully completed 15 credit hours of required upper-division ACCT courses including Intermediate Accounting. Students who have maintained an overall grade point average of 3.3 on a 4.0 scale in all previous college work will be eligible for the BS in business administration with an emphasis in accounting/MS in finance degree combination.

Combination BS in Business Administration with an Emphasis in Accounting/MS in Finance Requirements

The BS in business administration with an emphasis in accounting/MS in finance degree combination requires that all university-wide undergraduate degree requirements for general education and also the accounting major must be met. Students may receive the BS in business administration with an emphasis in accounting degree after completing all the undergraduate requirements for the degree and before completing the graduate requirements for the MS in finance degree. For the BS in business administration with an emphasis in accounting, they should have a total of 120 credit hours, completed all general education requirements, completed all of the required undergraduate courses for the major in accounting, and completed the four transition courses in the set of core requirements. Students may then continue completing the requirements for the MS in finance degree.

Undergraduate Requisite Courses

All courses required for the BS in business administration with an emphasis in accounting major with the exception of ACCT 4100 Advanced Financial Accounting and ACCT 4900 Auditing, which are defined as core transition courses between the BS in business administration with an emphasis in accounting/MS in finance programs.

Transition Courses

ACCT 4100 Advanced Financial Accounting

ACCT 4900 Auditing

FINC 5000 Finance

FINC 5100 Financial Modeling

Graduate Courses

FINC 5210 Investments

FINC 5810 Capital Budgeting and Corporate Investment

FINC 5830 Institutions and Financial Markets

FINC 5840 International Finance

FINC 5880 Advanced Corporate Finance

FINC 5890 Financial Statement Analysis

FINC 6290 Mergers and Acquisitions