Accounting
Available as a major or minor
At Roanoke, an accounting degree makes you aware of the ways you can maintain accurate, up-to-date financial business practices.
This includes a focus on methods of compilation, verification, supervision, revision, examination, recording, designing and reporting for both individuals and businesses. Accounting can prepare you for specialization in one of the following areas of accounting: public, corporate, tax, cost, government, budget and audit.
Curriculum & Courses
Sample Course Offerings:
BUAD 335: Cost Accounting
BUAD 345: Income Taxation
BUAD 415: Auditing
Student Experiences
Scored a job before graduation
"Roanoke College is a great place to have a good mix of interests in your education. It really sets you apart from students at other institutions," said Emily Huffman '17. While she was still a senior at Roanoke, an opportunity arose through a Career Services email for Huffman to apply for a job with the Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts. She has since been promoted to senior auditor.
"I believe that my mixture of mathematics and accounting really made me stand out and was one of the contributing factors to getting me the job that I have," she said. "I have never felt more thankful for all the resources that I took advantage of at Roanoke College."
Accolades
The Princeton Review has named Roanoke College to its list of the top schools for business and finance majors.
Careers & Outcomes
“Most accounting students at Roanoke College get hired into their first job before they reach graduation.”
Professor Sharon Gibbs
Our grads work at great organizations, and some start their own
Faculty
With the right professor, accounting can be fun
If you're looking to learn about accounting by performing financial analysis on Fortune 500 companies, playing Monopoly, participating in service learning, or eating candy to learn about inventory methods, then Sharon Gibbs is the professor for you.
"I like lessons that cause students to communicate with each other and get them to ask questions, because in accounting, those are keys to learning the concepts," she says.
Gibbs requires accounting students to participate in service learning. Working with YWCA and Habitat for Humanity, her students teach members of these organizations basic accounting and money management skills that they can use.
Her favorite lesson to teach is about ethics in her auditing class. "I'm always fascinated to hear the new ideas and opinions students have on these topics...and that makes it really fun," says Gibbs.