Economics-Accounting Major

1. Core Requirement (7 courses)

2. Electives (4 courses)

Four courses selected from:

• ECON149 CM - International Accounting, Taxation, and Transfer Prices
• ECON151 CM - Strategic Cost Management
• ECON152 CM - Tax Planning
• ECON154 CM - Financial Statement Analysis
• ECON156 CM - Accounting Ethics
• ECON158 CM - Auditing
• ECON159 CM - Accounting Theory and Research
• ECON160 CM - Accounting Data Analytics
• ECON191 CM - Business Law

Notes:

• ECON 101 CM  and ECON 102 CM  require completion of basic calculus at the level of MATH030 CM - Calculus I , or higher.
• ECON 150 CM
    requires the completion of
  ECON 086 CM
   .
• ECON 125 CM  and ECON 134 CM  require completion of a college-level statistics course. Students usually take
  ECON 120 CM
    as the prerequisite course. ECON 120 CM  or its equivalent must be taken for a letter grade.
• Economics-Accounting courses (ECON 086 CM  and ECON 149 CM  through ECON 160 CM ) are level I elective courses for economics majors, with the exception of ECON 151 CM , which is a level II elective.

Dual Major

The dual major in economics-accounting requires a minimum of 9 courses. Dual majors in economics-accounting may waive 2 elective course requirements from the full major.

Students with a dual major including economics-accounting are encouraged to write their senior thesis on a topic in economics-accounting.

Honors in Economics-Accounting

Requirements for honors in economics-accounting are:

• A grade point average of 3.50 or better in the major at the time of graduation.
• Completion of ECON159 CM - Accounting Theory and Research , during the senior year. In years when ECON 159 CM  will not be offered, candidates may complete an elective course from a list of qualifying courses available from the Director of the Economics-Accounting faculty during the senior year. This course must be taken prior to or concurrent with senior thesis.
• Completion of a senior thesis containing substantial accounting content and reflecting superior understanding of accounting analysis. Compliance with these requirements can be established through either of two methods:
  1. The thesis is written under the direction of an Economics-Accounting faculty member as either primary or secondary reader.
  2. The thesis is written under the direction of any other Robert Day School faculty member as the primary reader and the topic is approved in advance, and verified upon completion, by the Director of the Economics-Accounting faculty as meeting the requirements.