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Why earn a degree in accounting from Strayer?
Find your path to meeting your personal and professional goals with an online Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Accounting. You’ll learn how to do more than crunch numbers – you’ll learn how to apply them in ways that can help businesses thrive.
Summer classes start
July 6
Concentration overview
Analyze business financials with accounting
Discover the keys to making well-informed financial business decisions with a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Accounting from Strayer. You’ll learn how to use Excel and QuickBooks to provide accounting information, the basics of evaluating financial statements and how to prepare a personal and corporate federal income tax return. Throughout your program, you’ll build an understanding of concepts like inventory planning, cost distribution and mathematical and statistical models in cost accounting.
Skills you’ll learn in a Strayer BBA, Accounting concentration
A Strayer degree can help prepare you for career opportunities in an accounting-related field while offering support, flexible learning options and career planning every step of the way.
Understand how to use Excel and QuickBooks to provide accounting information for organizations.
Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of fundamental concepts and principles in accounting, including recording of journal entries and preparing and evaluating financial statements.
Solve general problems relating to both personal and business federal income tax and learn to prepare both a personal and a corporate federal income tax return.
Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship of accounting information to inventory planning and control, cost distribution and the use of mathematical and statistical models in cost accounting.
Earn professional digital badges
Add accounting accomplishments to your resume and LinkedIn profile with professional digital badges included in the BBA program at no additional cost. You can earn an Accounting Foundations Badge and an Auditing Essentials Badge as you complete specific course sequences.
Earn your degree from an accredited university
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Our business degree programs are programmatically accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs.
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Strayer University is an accredited institution and a member of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE or the Commission) www.msche.org. Strayer University’s accreditation status is Accreditation Reaffirmed. The Commission’s most recent action on the institution’s accreditation status on June 22, 2017 was to reaffirm accreditation. MSCHE is recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education to conduct accreditation and pre-accreditation (candidate status) activities for institutions of higher education including distance, correspondence education, and direct assessment programs offered at those institutions. The Commission’s geographic area of accrediting activities is throughout the United States.
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of Bachelor of Business Administration alumni agree that Strayer’s online programs provided the flexibility needed to finish their degree.
2024–2025 Alumni Survey, 0 year, 1 year, 3 years and 5 years after graduation.
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40 courses, $1555 per course
$65 technology fee each term
$150 one-time degree conferral fee
$100
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Courses and learning
Explore courses in Strayer’s Bachelor of Business Administration, Accounting
Leverage the fiscal insight of accounting data to help business leaders make smart, informed decisions. You’ll gain hands-on experience using software applications to perform accounting functions such as debits and credits. The curriculum covers core topics including cost and price analysis, federal taxation and managerial accounting, preparing you to pursue accounting.
This concentration is available online-only for Arkansas students.
Accounting concentration courses
ACC 206
Accounting II
ACC 307
Federal Taxation
ACC 309
Data Analytics for Accounting
ACC 350
Managerial Accounting
BUS 315
Cost and Price Analysis
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How does online learning work?
Complete your degree from where you live, on your time, in a flexible, 100% online program. Using our online portal, you’ll be able to:
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Complete assignments and exams
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What support services does Strayer provide?
From day one, you’ll have a team of advisors and coaches to help you balance college, work and your personal life. Tap into support resources online or at a campus near you.
You’ll have access to:
Admissions and enrollment support
One-on-one academic coaches
Financial guidance and potential cost savings
Career planning services
Does Strayer have a campus?
Strayer has many campuses where you can connect with your peers, chat with student coaches, access support resources and attend in-person hybrid classes (at select campuses only).
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Business faculty
The faculty at Strayer University bring years of real-world industry experience to the classroom, offering valuable insight and practical knowledge. They are committed to supporting your professional goals and are responsive to questions and concerns through the virtual courseroom.
Career exploration
What can you do with a BBA in Accounting?
Your education can help you pursue your professional and personal goals. While Strayer cannot guarantee that a graduate will secure any specific career outcome, such as a job title, promotion or salary increase, we encourage you to explore the potential impact you can have in the accounting field.
Versatile skills for your future
The Accounting concentration explores accounting principles and procedures. Students will use accounting software applications to perform accounting functions such as debits and credits. Students will specifically focus on federal taxation, managerial accounting and cost and price analysis. Students will learn fundamental accounting knowledge and skills.
In addition, students who complete this concentration will be prepared to:
Calculate business costs and prepare purchase orders and expense reports.
Compile different journals and printouts into general ledgers or data processing sheets.
Complete personal and business tax forms, workers’ compensation forms and other government documents.
Create and issue bills, invoices, account statements and a variety of other financial statements.
Create budgeting documents from estimated revenues, expenses and previous budgets.
Follow federal and state accounting policies, procedures and regulations.
Generate reports on financial and accounting data, which can include cash receipts, expenses, accounts payable and receivable, and financial performance.
Manage financial data and accounts using specialized accounting software.
Perform common accounting office duties like filing, answering phones and interacting with clients.
Perform financial calculations and produce documents with 10-key calculators, typewriters and copy machines.
Prepare checks and other forms of payment for bank deposits, taxes, utilities and more.
Reconcile records to ensure they are accurate and use the correct codes.
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An admissions officer can help you choose the right program, register for classes, transfer credits and find cost-savings opportunities.
Here’s what you’ll need to get started:
A completed application and enrollment agreement, as applicable
A diploma from an approved high school or its equivalent
Official copies of transcripts from all colleges or universities attended
A valid, current and legible government-issued photo ID
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