Accounting Careers and Employment
The accounting department at the Walton College enjoys strong relationships with corporate partners. These corporate connections are enhanced through networking events, speaking events, and academic activities – culminating in employment opportunities.
Career Center
The Career Development Center at the Walton College provides MAcc students with personalized career planning. Their dedicated staff focuses on your career aspirations and assists you with your resume, interview skills, job search strategies, and salary negotiations. On-campus interviews are typically held in the Career Center's office on the 2nd floor of Willard J. Walker Hall. Learn more.
You Asked. They Answered.
Members of our Accounting Department Advisory Board relate their experiences as college students, and take time to offer their industry and career insights.
Accounting Internships
The majority of students will begin interviewing for their internships during their sophomore and junior year, as most internships are designed to take place during the Spring or Summer of the Senior year. Recruiters consider internships to be a key strategy for full-time employment recruiting. Learn more.
Accounting Degree Programs
The Master of Accountancy
Masters Degree
The MAcc program is a 30-hour program designed to be completed in one year for students with appropriate backgrounds in business administration and economics and with an undergraduate concentration in accounting.
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The Integrated MACC
Bachelors AND Masters Degree
Undergraduate accounting students at the University of Arkansas have the option to obtain both a Bachelors and a Masters of Accountancy in a five-year period, and will meet the academic requirements required to sit for the CPA exam.
Learn MoreAccounting Certification Exams
While your focus as a student is naturally on taking a certification exam, remember that this is just a step towards professional certification. In addition to passing a certification exam, there are additional requirements (e.g., experience requirements, continuing education requirements) for professional certification or licensing that you also must fulfill after graduation.
Learn MoreNew & Noteworthy
Peters Elected President of Federation of Schools of Accountancy
Gary Peters, professor and department chair of the William Dillard Department of Accounting at Walton College, has been elected president of the Federation of Schools of Accountancy effective August 1.
Recent M.Acc. Graduate Earns Award for Top Scores on CPA Exam
William Martens, a 2019 U of A Master of Accounting graduate, has recently been awarded the Elijah Watt Sells Award for top scores on the CPA exam.
Student Spotlight: Meet Ryan Decker
My favorite part of Walton is how connected the college is with companies in NWA. Companies are genuinely interested in getting to know Walton students, and I have developed lasting relationships with professionals through networking and career events.
Our Graduates Work At:
(partial list)
- ArcBest
- BKD, LLP
- Conoco
- Deloitte
- Dillard's
- Ernst &Young
- Erwin & Co.
- FedEx Freight
- Frost PLLC
- Grant Thornton
- Hogan Taylor
- Hudson Cisne, & Co. LLP
- JB Hunt Transport Services
- JPMS Cox PLLC
- Koch Industries
- KPMG
- Phillips66
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- RSM
- Stephens
- Tyson
- Walmart
- Windstream Communications
