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Accountancy

Alumni Job Titles

A degree in Accountancy from WIU’s Signature Program in Accountancy prepares students for their first job and allows them to develop the knowledge and skills needed to take advantage of subsequent career opportunities. WIU alumni have careers as consultants, managerial accountants, auditors, tax specialists, financial planners, forensic accountants, controllers, financial analysts, and chief financial officers. The Accountancy degree provides an excellent background for graduate studies in law, accounting, and business. Students completing the Master of Accountancy degree have also obtained teaching positions after working in the profession or have pursued their doctoral degrees in Accountancy at major universities.

Within 5 Years of Graduation
  • Associate in General Services
  • Audit Manager
  • Business Analyst
  • Business Manager
  • Certified Fraud Examiner
  • Certified Management Accountant
  • Certified Public Accountant
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Financial Analyst
  • General Services Manager
  • Senior Associate
  • Senior Auditor
  • Senior Business Analyst
  • Staff Accountant
5+ Years Past Graduation
  • Audit Manager
  • Bursar
  • Certified Financial Planner
  • Certified Internal Auditor
  • Chairman
  • Controller
  • Corporate President
  • Director of Budgets
  • Director of Tax Solutions
  • Internal Control Accountant
  • Inventory Management Specialist
  • Partner
  • Senior Tax Accountant
  • VP of Cashier Operations

Employers Alumni

More than 40 regional, national, and international business entities regularly employ our graduates. Some of these entities include Accenture, BDO Seidman, Caterpillar, CliftonLarsonAllen, Deere & Company, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, the FBI, FS Growmark, the IRS, KPMG, McGladrey, and State Farm. Starting salaries for accountants and auditors, depending on firm size, range from $41,000 to $60,000. Starting salaries for graduates of the Master of Accountancy program are higher by approximately $10,000. The Master’s degree in Accountancy either is required for or facilitates promotion at many of our regular employers’ firms.

  • Accenture LLP
  • Allstate
  • Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)
  • BDO LLP
  • BP/Amoco
  • Caterpillar Inc.
  • Central States Funds
  • CliftonLarsonAllen LLP
  • John Deere
  • Deloitte LLP
  • Dot Foods
  • Ernst & Young LLP (EY US)
  • FBI
  • Grant Thornton LLP
  • Gray Hunter Stenn LLP
  • Growmark
  • Illinois Office of the Auditor General
  • Internal Revenue Service
  • KPMG LLP
  • Moss Adams LLP
  • Nestle Purina North America
  • PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP)
  • RSM US LLP (formerly McGladrey)
  • State Farm