Accounting is usually deemed for being the "language of business." Managers of companies use accounting information to help them with planning, controlling, and decision-making activities associated with their organizations. The accounting program within the Accounting Department of the School of Business at Central Connecticut State University prepares its graduates for challenging positions in the business world. Alumni of our program currently have industry positions such as auditors in public accounting firms, internal auditors in insurance companies, management accountants in manufacturing firms, accountants in both State and Federal government agencies (including positions as special agents for the FBI), and management consultants in consulting firms. Curriculum Undergraduate The Faculty -->
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If you would like additional information regarding the programs of the Accounting Department, please contact the department chairperson:
Lawrence P. (Larry) Grasso, Chair Department of Accounting
Professor of Accounting
School of Business
Central Connecticut State University
1615 Stanley Street, P.O. Box 4010
New Britain, CT 06050-4010
Tel. 860-832-3226
Fax. 860-832-3219
Email. grassola@ccsu.edu
CURRICULUM-UNDERGRADUATE
The accounting program has been modernized within the past several years in order to meet the changing demands of the business world for accounting graduates. For example, due to the extensive use of computers by business firms, accountants working in industry today are performing less and less "bookkeeping-type work." Rather than becoming the bookkeeper types of persons,
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Among the required courses that all accounting majors take are cost accounting, intermediate financial accounting, tax accounting, accounting information systems,
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FACULTY
All of the faculty within the Accounting Department have practical business experience to supplement their academic degrees. The practical business experience enables the faculty to bring into the classroom what goes on in the real business world. On the academic side, our faculty have doctorate degrees from universities such as Arizona State University, Oklahoma State University,
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