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Accounting Area Vision and Mission

Accounting Area Vision

The Accounting Area’s vision is to be recognized as having the best accounting undergraduate and master’s programs in Rhode Island and among the very best in New England. We also strive to have a faculty that is nationally and internationally known and respected for quality teaching, research, and service.

Accounting Area Mission

Our mission is a derivative of the College and University’s mission of which we are a part. We consider strategies with regard to the mission umbrella’s under which we live but extend those ideas in the following ways. Specifically, the Area is responsible for all accounting education, research, and service at the University of Rhode Island.

The education component of the mission is to:

• Provide high quality accounting degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate level. The programs should produce graduates with the skills and competencies desired by the accounting profession, businesses, government, and not-for-profit organizations.
• Offer accounting education to undergraduate and graduate students in other majors where accounting knowledge adds value to a student’s degree.

The second component of the Area’s mission is to conduct quality research in the field of accounting.

• This includes applied, basic, and educational scholarship, including the publication of textbooks and cases. The Area also encourages the development of grants and encourages faculty to engage in cross-disciplinary scholarship both within the College and across the University.
• Research should be relevant to and integrated as much as possible with the teaching mission.

The third part of the mission is to provide service to the College and the University and to meet the responsibilities of a state land grant university by providing service to the local, state, and regional communities, and to national and global professional associations and organizations.

Accounting is essential to the efficient operation of individual, private, and public sector organizations as well as to the operation of efficient capital markets. As the premier Rhode Island business school, we have a special responsibility to promote sound accounting practices to the businesses, state and local government agencies, and not-for-profit organizations in Rhode Island.