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School of Business

Department of Accounting and Taxation

Introduction

As corporate activities quickly change and become more complex, there has been a growing demand in the accounting and taxation sector that can identify and analyze the conditions of a company at a glance. Thus, many universities have been strengthening accounting education and Yeungnam University also newly established the Department of Accounting and Taxation in 2015 by reflecting the social needs for human resources in the accounting and taxation sectors.

The goal of this department is to foster accounting and taxation experts with a challenging spirit and practical field capacities, and its three sub-goals are as shown below.

(1) Improving challenging spirit
According to accounting education demand surveys, companies prefer human resources with knowledge on accounting, and employees with knowledge on accounting have higher overall understanding on corporate management activities. But for such accounting knowledge to shed light in various sectors, a challenging spirit that goes beyond analyzing current data, but pioneers into the future and solves problems is needed. Therefore, the goal of the Department of Accounting and Taxation is to improve challenging spirits.

(2) Improving practical field capacities
According to accounting education demand surveys, it was found that there was quite a big gap between college accounting education and actual accounting work. In order to overcome this, adjunct professors who also work in the accounting field and experts with rich practical experiences will be actively utilized in the curricular and extracurricular courses.

(3) Fostering accounting and taxation experts
The basic goal of this department is to foster experts with fundamental knowledge in accounting and taxation fitting the majors of the Department of Accounting and Taxation.

Job Fields

Certified Public Accountant, Tax Accountant

Students of this department can earn their CPA and CTA license and become a certified public accountant or licensed tax accountant. Professors in the Department of Accounting and Taxation are in charge of the in-school CPA prep class, and by sharing the Chunma Honors School accountant track and curriculum program, CPAs are being fostered.

Public Company Employment

Students in this department can find employment in public companies. 23 public institutes will be moving to the Daegu-Gyeongbuk area (11 to the Daegu Innovation City and 12 to the Gimcheon Innovation City) and these institutes are highly interested in local human resources. Accordingly, this department selects public institutes to fit the abilities and preferences of students, and operates a public corporation prep class to support students in finding employment at public companies.

Employment at Large Conglomerates

Students of this department can find employment at large conglomerates. The Department of Accounting and Taxation supports employment at large conglomerates by improving language abilities using exchange student programs and by acquiring licenses related to accounting and taxation.

Professors

After graduating from the Department of Accounting and Taxation and completing master's and PhD courses, we provide support so that they may find employment as professors.

Faculty

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Curriculum

Department Of Accounting And Taxation

Curriculum
1-1
INTRODUCTION TO FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
This course provides an introduction to accounting within the context of business and business decision. The audience will explore accounting information’s role in the decisions marking process, and learn how to use various types of accounting information found in financial statements and annual reports. Understanding how accounting information can be used to make better business decisions will benefit all students, regardless of their major course of study or chosen career.
1-1
SEMINAR FOR ACADEMIC LIFE
1. Summary of the course This course is to assist university freshmen in CRM designing to adapt university life well through the instruction and counselling of supervising professor. (This course is composed of self analysis, personality type test, career research, instruction for the success of university life, career plan and direction setting, CRM designing method and CRM designing. The course should be teaching in classes of the students by supervising professor.) 2. Course objectives This course is to motivate the students before the mid term exam and provide students with self analysis, personality type test (MBTI or TCI) and career research (YAT test). Also, this course shall has a plan to instruct the students to enhance the efficiency of university life through career and time management. In addition, this course is to make a chance for the students to have practical assistance to university life by providing study method, report designing strategy and the information on academic system and various kinds of internal programs of the university. After the mid term exam, the students will be instructed to set the direction of career designing through continuous counselling of supervising professor and the students will be able to establish CRM designing and execution plan.
1-1
SOFTWARE AND AI
Software and AI (Artificial Intelligence) course aims to educate the basic concepts of software and computational thinking to use them in various applications. It allows students of various majors to experience the core technologies of the 4th industrial revolution, such as big data, machine learning, and AI. It also introduces various applications of AI so that students can easily apply these technologies to their field of study. This course classifies the lecture types into three categories, and adjust the lecture difficulty according to the student's academic ability.
1-1
UNDERSTANDING IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
The corporations in 21st century have been severely challenged by the accelerated changes in local and global business environments complicated with diverse issues from the political, economical, socio-cultural, and environmental aspects. The main reason of studying management is contributing to suggestion of directions and principles for solving diverse problematic phenomena faced in management practices and for further development of our society. The purpose of this subject is to teach students the overall management concepts and theories so that they could understand many management issues and deal with effective managerial decision making in management practices.
1-1
ACCOUNTING AND SOCIETY
The purpose of this course is to introduce basic content in all areas of accounting (financial accounting, management accounting, tax accounting, audit, financial statement analysis, etc.). Therefore, this course is expected to provide useful knowledge to increase the overall understanding of accounting and provide basic knowledge for taking more advanced accounting courses in the future.
1-2
SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION AND SERVICE
This course is to cultivate community sense as members of society and the global village for students in order to develop the basic knowledge required as global citizens. Especially, this course is to foster the spirit of cooperation, sharing, service, and creativity and study the social contribution and leadership to solving the challenges the global community faces. As a liberal arts course, it is centered to nurture a leader having the global capability to contribute to community development through learning the knowledge and the case on the value & logic of social responsibility focused on environmental preservation, social contribution, and good governance(ESG). This course aims to foster a generous mind, learn knowledge and technology and build the capacity to contribute to building a society towards a safer and happier world through the study of theory and practice.
1-2
SPECIALIZED ACADEMIC ENGLISH
The aim of the course is to help students increase their fluency and accuracy in English. The course will be co-taught by Korean and Native English instructors. Korean instructors will provide students with an opportunity to practice English structure, vocabulary, and expressions, and students will be encouraged to enhance their verbal skills by actively participating in classroom activities. Students will further practice expressing themselves in English with native English instructors.
1-2
UNDERSTANDING THE PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS
By introducing students to the very basic economic principles, this course purpose to enhance student's ability analyze and synthetically understand the mode of human behavior in its economic aspects as well as the economic system. Detailed subjects to be dealt with in this course are as follows : the native and purpose of economics, the theory of demand and supply and its applications, the theory of consumers’and firms’behavior, the theory of competitive markets, monopoly, monopolistic competition, and oligopoly, etc.
1-2
ACCOUNTING AND PYTHON
Firms are increasingly adopting computerization into their processes, with accounting systems leading the change. Computing intelligence and programming are no longer skills that are exclusively needed for computer engineers. Professionals in the field of accounting must also learn computer programming skills. This course is designed to provide an introduction to statistics and programming specific to accounting, using Python programming language.
1-2
PRINCIPLES OF ACCOUNTING
Accounting area can be divided into financial accounting, management accounting, taxation and auditing. Among them, this class is the basic step of the financial accounting and the first course for student to learn accounting. Before entering this class, students must have taken the introduction of financial accounting. This deals with the latter half of the text book (IFRS principles of accounting). If you learn the basic level of financial accounting more thoroughly, you need to take excise of introduction of financial accounting class.

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