Accounting
School of Business & Computer Technologies
Breuder Advanced Technology & Health Sciences Center, Rm. E257 · (570) 327-4517
A fast-changing business world is transforming the accounting profession in new and exciting ways. Specifically, the profession is changing, expanding, and evolving to meet an organization's financial management/ services and information systems needs.
Built upon our strong accounting and financial planning core, Pennsylvania College of Technology's accounting programs place an even greater emphasis on helping students understand and develop information systems and new ways of interpreting and using financial information to make better financial and management decisions for their employers and clients.
A.A.S. curriculum provides
- increased attention to information technology and accounting information systems
- opportunity to gain Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification in Excel
- broader management perspective
- specialized coursework addressing payroll, state, and local taxation issues of small businesses
B.S. curriculum provides
- greater emphasis on information technology and accounting information systems
- opportunity to gain Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification in Excel and Access
- broader business perspective, business ethics, management of organizational behavior, and business policy and strategy;
- opportunity to pursue a certified financial planning (CFP®) minor; and
- internship required
Accounting News
Penn College Business Students Tour New York Stock Exchange
April 2008
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Penn College Students Schedule Tax-Preparation ‘Road Trip’
March 2008
Free Income-Tax Assistance Program Returns to Penn College
January 2008
IRS Fraud Specialist Shares Perspective
October 2007
The School of Business and Computer Technologies' observance of
National Cyber Security Awareness Month continued with an informative presentation
– "Forensic Accounting: White-Collar Crime and Financially Motivated Crimes" – in the SASC presentation room Thursday afternoon. Special Agent Annmarie M. Tyler, a certified fraud specialist with the Internal Revenue Service's Philadelphia-based Criminal Investigations Unit, shared her knowledge of white-collar crime and forensic accounting. Tyler's duties include investigation of criminal tax violations, money-laundering, Bank Secrecy Act violations and similar types of financial fraud. She is a member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, Major Corporate Fraud Task Force and the Bankruptcy Fraud Task Force, and has top security clearance.Penn College Aims to Raise Level of ‘Cyber Security Awareness’
September 2007