Feedback on Freshman Kelley Schedule

bthomp1
Sat, 07 Jun 2014 06:19:25 +0000

You have a great start on the icore prerequisites.

You wrote in another thread that you were going to major in accounting. You will need to be on pace to have 150 credits at graduation in order to even interview with Big Four companies and most national and regional accounting firms. This is doable in eight semesters at IUB if you do a lot of cc classes. You should have enough resources from IUB/Kelley websites to map out your whole 150 credits. Of course, you won’t have to stick like glue to any plan you make now, but you will get a real good idea of what you need each semester to stay on track for the 150.

You are taking a human nutrition class this summer? If you were taking the equivalent of A201 you could get a big jump on meeting requirements for the accounting major. You would need only a solid C or higher to transfer the accounting credit to IUB/Kelley. It would also make A100 much easier for you.

Remember that accounting is one of the very few Kelley majors that you can take upper-level courses before you take Icore. Taking A311 Intermediate Accounting I spring semester of your sophomore year will set you apart favorably from many other accounting majors during the Fall/Junior year recruiting period, when the Big Four and big regional firms are looking for interns for the following summer. Here is a list of the accounting major requirements and courses. A337 Accounting Information Systems is the only course that requires Icore.

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“I also have dual credit for personal finance and advanced accounting from high school (will see if these transfer at orientation)” ---- Find out from your state accounting board if they will accept credit for these classes toward your 150 credits needed to sit for the cpa exam (if your state requires 150). They probably will not accept the “advanced accounting” class, as they tend not to accept credit more than one of two classes that have similar content. The advanced accounting class from your high school may match too closely the content of Kelley or other accounting classes that you might take from a cc. Whether some of these credits will be accepted would affect how many credits you need from IU/Kelley to reach 150 credits.