Concentrations

Accountancy
The Accountancy concentration provides conceptual and practical knowledge to graduates who will prepare, report, and analyze economic and financial information. Students prepare themselves to be CPA firm partners, chief financial officers, controllers, tax consultants, or auditors. Graduates from CSUS in Accountancy are qualified be become a CPA, CIA, or CMA.

Accounting Information Systems
The Accounting Information Systems concentration is designed to prepare students for opportunities that call for a balance of accounting and information systems. Graduates are prepared to perform in typical accounting positions as well as serve as the liaison between the information systems professionals and the accountants. Students prepare for careers in consulting and auditing.

Finance
The Finance concentration emphasizes a conceptual and applied approach to the development of professional skills necessary for careers in such fields as banking, investments, corporate financial management, and financial planning and services. Emphasis is given to the roles played by financial markets and intermediaries, corporations, governments, and individual investors in the global economy.

General Management
The General Management concentration permits a focus on the skills of the manager, whether the manager is an entrepreneur or operating at the coporate or agency level. Managerial skills in planning, organizing, and controlling are highly transferable within the public and nonprofit sectors as well, thus permitting a wide variety of career goals.

Human Resources
The Human Resources Management concentration develops and disseminates knowledge and skills concerned with the management and utilization of human resources to meet the needs of individuals and organizations in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. This area is intended for students interested in the fields of compensation and benefits management, industrial and labor relations, management training and development, and organzational behavior.

International Business
The International Business concentration is designed to prepare students for a career in business by providing a broad exposure to the areas of international business, competency in a functional area of business, and awareness of foreign cultural differences.

Marketing
The Marketing concentration emphasizes the conceptual understanding and development of professional skills essential to marketing-oriented careers in such fields as advertising, public relations, product and service management, retail management, international marketing, marketing research, and sales. Consideration is given to the role of marketing in a global economy.

Management Information Systems
The Management Information Systems concentration provides the analytical framework and the methodology to analyze, design, implement, and manage complex computer-based information/decision systems. Information is recognized as a resource of the organization and is the common link binding the elements of the organization together. As organizations grow in size and complexity, the need for better and timelier information and for improved decision making techniques becomes critical for effective management.

Operations Management
Operations Management is concerned with the organization, methods, and concepts employed in managing production / operations systems which turn out goods or services. Students who concentrate in OM are provided with a well-balanced program of qualitative and quantitative subject matter as well as an appreciation of the human element in organizations.

Real Estate and Land Use Affairs
The Real Estate and Land Use Affairs concentration prepares students for careers in the real estate industry, such as governmental and private positions relating to planning, environmental regulation, and finance; positions with lending institutions; positions in public and private corporations concerned with investment, site location, eminent domain; and positions related to the marketing or sales and brokerage of real estate.

Risk Management and Insurance
The purpose of the Risk Management and Insurance concentration is threefold: First, it is offered as a tool for the future manager whose academic concentration is in another area of the College of Business. Second, it serves as an introduction to insurance for those students who have an interest in an insurance career. Finally, the information contained in one or more of the insurance courses offered is highly useful consumer information.

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Accountancy
Accounting Information Systems
Finance
General Management
Human Resources Management
International Business
Management Information Systems
Marketing
Operations Management
Real Estate and Land Use Affairs
Risk Management and Insurance