Accounting: The Language of Business
Accounting provides you with the financial fluency and analytical mindset to thrive in any industry. Accounting majors enjoy exceptional career placement and long-term earning potential.
Loyola’s liberal arts approach to accounting develops not just number-crunchers, but problem solvers and principled leaders. Based on Jesuit values, our curriculum blends rigorous accounting coursework with a foundation in ethics, critical thinking, and global awareness. You will learn to analyze data and communicate insights clearly, serving as a trusted business advisor. Whether you want to become a CPA, lead a nonprofit, or start your own business, you will be equipped with both technical proficiency and a moral compass to guide your decisions.
Our small classes and close faculty mentorship ensure that your learning is personal, meaningful, and transformative. You will benefit from hands-on experience, such as internships with local, regional, or national firms. You also have the opportunity to work on projects that allow you to put your skills to use to help others, such as Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA).
Our curriculum meets the educational requirements for the CPA Exam for Louisiana and most other states. Our graduates work in more than public accounting (auditing and tax); they also work in companies (for example, hospitals, casinos, sports teams, utilities), nonprofits, government agencies, consulting, or own their own firms.
What You Will Learn
- Gives you the skills and ethics you’ll need to boost your bottom line. You’ll learn how to be a public or private sector leader and a decision-maker in global business, government, and not-for profits.
- Your coursework will put you steps ahead if you want to become a CPA.
Sample Courses
With a combination of accounting courses and core business courses in economics, finance, management, and marketing, our program will train you to be both an effective accountant and a business leader advisor.
Accounting Analytics
- This course introduces the concepts and foundations underlying data analytics for accounting. Topics include accounting systems and controls, and the acquiring, organizing, synthesizing and analysis of large data sets to address accounting questions and problems. Emphasis is on recognizing and identifying appropriate tools for various types of accounting data analysis. The course extends the use of Excel and introduces other analytical tools, such as Python & SQL and Tableau, to perform data analysis.
Government & Non Profit
- This course examines accounting concepts and principles that underlie the financial reporting and related disclosures of state and local governments and nonprofit organizations. Topics include accounting for government funds, proprietary funds, fiduciary funds, the preparation and presentation for government-wide financial statements, pensions, and the accounting and financial statement presentation for nonprofit organizations.
Business Taxation
- This course covers concepts and methods of determining federal, state, and international income tax liability for corporations, partnerships, estates, and trusts while examining tax strategy opportunities and emerging tax policies.