Accounting

Achieve Your Career Goals with an Accounting Degree from Florida Southern College

An accounting degree opens doors to outstanding career opportunities across a variety of industries. Financial management is essential to every organization, making accountants highly sought after for roles ranging from daily bookkeeping to strategic financial planning and analysis. With accounting positions in high demand, FSC equips you to secure competitive salaries, advancement opportunities, and career success.

A Well-Rounded Accounting Education

FSC’s accounting curriculum offers a deep dive into critical topics like taxation, auditing, financial statement analysis, and business planning. Taught by expert professors, courses combine technical expertise with real-world application, ensuring you graduate with the knowledge and skills needed to thrive in today’s competitive job market.

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100% Placement Rate

Florida Southern students receive a multitude of opportunities to interact with a variety of companies and firms to help build a foundation for their future careers. Through internships, case studies, and other hands-on learning, our accounting graduates are prepared for professional employment and boast a 100% placement rate upon graduation.

AACSB Accreditation

Florida Southern’s Barney Barnett School of Business and Free Enterprise is proudly AACSB Accredited, a distinction earned by the top 5% of business schools worldwide. This mark of excellence ensures you’ll receive a world-class business education that sets you apart in the competitive job market.

Why choose Accounting at FSC?

Engaged Learning with Small Class Sizes

FSC’s nurturing small-classroom environment, with a focus on engaged learning, allows students direct access to professors, collaboration with classmates, and opportunities to develop deductive reasoning, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Direct Mentorship

As an accounting major, you’ll receive one-on-one mentorship from a dedicated accounting professor who will guide you through class selections, scheduling, internship opportunities, and career planning.

Outstanding Internship Placements

With FSC’s nationally ranked Career Services and strong faculty connections to top accounting firms like Deloitte and EY, you’ll gain access to high-paying internship opportunities across local, regional, and national markets.

Accounting Alumni Association

Through FSC’s Accounting Alumni Association, you’ll benefit from mentorship, career guidance, internship placements, and access to industry insights and resources, giving you a competitive edge in the job market.

Accelerated CPA Pathway

FSC offers a 4+1 Master of Accountancy designed to help you meet the 150-hour requirement for CPA certification in just two additional semesters. This accelerated program also provides professional development opportunities to prepare you for leadership roles and maximize your earning potential.

Exceptional CPA Exam Success

FSC boasts the highest CPA exam pass rate among private institutions in the state and ranks 4th overall among all Florida universities. Our graduates also achieve the 2nd-highest average CPA exam scores among private institutions, placing 5th statewide.

An FSC Accounting degree will most certainly open up tremendous possibilities and lead to career success. It teaches you to be a critical thinker and a problem solver that can prepare you for a number of career paths. If you have in interest in accounting, finance, or business, a degree in accounting is a great investment in your future career.

Chuck Foss, CPA, PFS

President at Core Wealth Advisors

Meet Our Mocs

Cameron Webb

Rea Jorger

Daphne Compere

My favorite aspect of FSC’s Accounting program is the small intimate classrooms and all the supportive accounting professors. During my time here, I was able to secure an internship at Adamson+Co, an accounting firm in Winter Haven. It is both rewarding and exciting that I am able to use the skills I have acquired within the program in actual practice!

Daphne Compere

Chase Ibbotson

Joining Florida Southern's accounting program has been the best decision I have made. The knowledge and mentorships that were gained during my tenure in Florida Southern's accounting program not only allowed me to excel in the classroom and CPA exam but also led me to a role in the public accounting industry.

Chase Ibbotson

Charles Gotsch

My position as a Staff Consultant in the Technology Risk practice at the Tampa office of EY would not have been possible without FSC. Ranging from the vast professional network of Prof. Celina Jozsi, to the coursework that prepared me for the CPA exam, to the College's assistance with landing multiple internships prior to starting full-time, I was fortunate to gain both academic and practical experience that has proven to be invaluable to me in my current role.

Charles Gotsch

Shelby Lewis

Knowing my ultimate goal was to attend law school, my advisors and professors blended accounting, tax, and business law in an interdisciplinary, rigorous way that provided the foundation for my legal studies. My professors went above and beyond to ensure I not only had a conceptual accounting background, but also the analytical and innovative ways of thought I would need to adapt to an ever-changing legal landscape.

Shelby Lewis

William James

Edgar Sandoval

The relationships I was able to forge with my professors during my time at FSC were instrumental in my securing a career after graduation. The intimate classroom settings, the comprehensive coursework, and the outside-of-classroom experiences offered by the program are unmatched in the area. Were it not for my professors dedicating themselves to seeing students succeed beyond the classroom, I would not find myself where I am at today: at a multinational accounting firm working alongside brilliant minds thanks to a professor who saw something in me.

Edgar Sandoval

Featured Accounting Faculty

Celina Jozsi

My primary goal as an accounting educator is to develop students' critical thinking skills so that they can apply the knowledge to decisions and maximize their potential career success. At Florida Southern, we have the opportunity to very actively engage students in the classroom as well as to directly advise and mentor them. It is extremely rewarding that so many students credit us with having such a lasting positive impact in their lives.

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Accounting Information Systems

In ACC 3105 Accounting Information Systems, you can expect to get hands-on experience recording and analyzing business transactions using a variety of current and emerging technologies. In this class, students create their own company and dive into a real Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System to record their own transactions (sales, purchases, payments, and more) to see how a company records transactions and ultimately reports them on the financial statements.

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Clubs And More

Extracurricular organizations associated with this program, including the Accounting Club and Beta Alpha Psi, enable students to develop lasting friendships and make lasting contributions to the program. Students can also network with accounting professionals at the Annual Accounting Meet the Firms Event, Mock Interviews, and other events provided specifically for accounting majors throughout the year. In addition, participation in the VITA program and assistance to Catapult provide students with concrete practical applications outside of the classroom.

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Admission Requirements

First-Years

All freshman applicants to Florida Southern Colleges full-time degree programs must submit the following information:

A completed application form
An official high school transcript
SAT and/or ACT scores (unless applying Test-Optional)
Academic recommendation

Transfers

Applying to Florida Southern as a transfer student is easy.

A completed application form
Personal statement
All official college transcripts
Social standing form

If transferring less than 24 credits, we also need your:

Official high school transcript
SAT and/or ACT scores

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Internationals

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Accounting Program Contact

Office of Admissions

France Admissions Center

863.680.4131

Celina Jozsi, MAcc, CPA

Instructor of Accounting

Accounting Department Chair

MAcc Program Director

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863.680.4286

Accounting

Achieve Your Career Goals with an Accounting Degree from Florida Southern College

A Well-Rounded Accounting Education

100% Placement Rate

AACSB Accreditation

Why choose Accounting at FSC?

Engaged Learning with Small Class Sizes

Direct Mentorship

Outstanding Internship Placements

Accounting Alumni Association

Accelerated CPA Pathway

Exceptional CPA Exam Success

Meet Our Mocs

Cameron Webb

Rea Jorger

Daphne Compere

Chase Ibbotson

Charles Gotsch

Shelby Lewis

William James

Edgar Sandoval

Featured Accounting Faculty

Celina Jozsi

Get an inside look at Accounting

Accounting Information Systems

Clubs And More

Related Programs

Accounting Program Details

AVAILABLE IN:

Admission Requirements

First-Years

Transfers

Internationals

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