Today Accounting Information Technology is profoundly changing the way of conducting business in an Internet environment. Today’s businesses need to relate challenges and opportunities using accurate information enabling them to develop cost and benefit analysis, budgeting, cash flow analysis, and internal managerial accounting information in order to make sound business decisions at various critical moments.
The Department of Fianace was established in 2002. The objective of the department is to train students to develop good accounting information system techniques for better decision making skills. Students are required to learn both domestic and international standards and practices in accounting theory and financial reporting, cost analysis and managerial applications in business decision-making processes. In accounting specialized areas such as financial accounting and managerial accounting uses English textbooks, which require students to read and prepare financial statements in English and/or Chinese language. Our department’s is aiming at providing an inductive learning environment which combines both facts and theories allowing individuals not only to learn how to manage organizations with figures, but also with passion and courage. We hope this learning method will empower our students to become the architects of their own future, and enhance our society with positive values in business practices.
The curriculum focus on four areas:
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(1) abilities to provide financial and accounting information for internal and external reporting, |
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(2) assisting managerial decision-making with appropriate accounting information; |
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(3) assisting organizational planning, budgeting, and projects implementation; and |
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(4) tax planning and reporting by serving as internal or external auditor for a corporation. |
The program works in combination with the Accounting, Control, Strategy Management, Accounting Information Systems, and Operations Management departments to nurture disciplinary expertise and field-based experiences. A group project report in a business field study is required before graduating.
The freshman and sophomore years required courses are financial accounting, economics, quantitative analysis in business decisions, business operations, statistics, intermediate accounting, managerial accounting, and business law that requires the knowledge of various business software applications. Among various other elective courses are marketing, Internet concept, data structure, system analysis and investment decisions.
The junior and senior year required courses are advance accounting, tax law, tax accounting, accounting information system analysis, auditing, and financial management, as well as, the required business field study project.
Elective courses include technology management, supply chain management, cost and benefit analysis, value chain planning, computer auditing and activity base management.
Faculty (Full time and Adjunct)
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Shur-Nuaan Chiou Chair; |
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Ching-Ying Lien (Helen Wang) |
Ph. D in Management Planning System (City University of New York)
MBA in Statistic and Information System (City University of New York)
MS Accounting (Long Island University –New York)
BS Accounting (Minnesota State University –Mankato)
Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, System Planning, Statistics, Quantitative Analysis for Business Decision, Value Chain Analysis, Environmental Accounting
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Xue-Jiao Huang |