Murray State University Department of Accounting

Mission

The Department of Accounting is committed to providing an excellent accounting education that enables graduates to effectively compete in an accounting or related business environment. This commitment arises from a sincere desire to deliver high quality accounting instruction that encourages both accounting students and non-accounting majors to appreciate, understand and use accounting information.

To achieve this commitment, the Department:

1. offers responsive and innovative high quality accounting programs that foster student learning, bridge the gap between academia and business, and produce outstanding accounting graduates at both the undergraduate and graduate levels,

2. provides high quality accounting instruction that is contemporary, innovative, and responsive to student needs, and that instills the accounting knowledge, skills and compentencies needed to develop successful careers, and

3. identifies, accumulates, and disseminates relevant accounting knowledge with a professional faculty through superior teaching, appropriate intellectual contributions, professional interaction, and university and community service.