Accounting Business and Economics

Accounting, Business, and Economics The Juniata Advantage ● Invest: Take a series of three one-credit courses on investments where you will actually invest and manage $100,000 of Juniata’s money. ● Experience: You’ll be expected to pursue an internship and encouraged to undertake more than one before graduation. In upper-level marketing and accounting courses, you can work with clients in the community, creating marketing strategies and auditing financial statements to gain insight into the real problems companies face. In Behavioral Analysis of Organizations course, you’ll take a wilderness hike where the focus is teamwork and group decision-making. Visit Chinese businesses—in China. Juniata has recently developed a Master of Accounting program for students interested in pursuing graduate study. ● Learn from the best: In addition to learning from faculty who have a broad variety of experiences, receive insight and mentoring from business leaders through Juniata’s Glaeser Executives-In-Residence program. Visiting experts are only one of several reasons Juniata’s business department was granted accreditation by the board of commissioners of the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education. ● Create: Start a business! The Juniata Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (JCEL) is a unique resource of funding, expertise, and space for viable student business ideas.

Through our NextStep and seed capital programs, you can use the Bob & Eileen Sill Business Incubator for business planning, research, technology, light manufacturing, conferences, meetings, and other business needs.

Juniata’s Outcomes About 40 percent of our graduates eventually earn master’s degrees in business at prestigious business schools such as Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, the University of Pittsburgh, Columbia, Syracuse, and Penn State.

Our Recent Graduates ● Sean Collins ’16 is pursuing a master’s degree in accounting at Juniata College. ● Adena Delozier ’16 is employed as a corporate fellow in a two-year rotational program at Olympus Corporation of the Americas in Center Valley, Pa. ● Michael Lifshitz ’16 is employed in the internal audit division of State Street Corporation in Boston, Mass. ● Amanda Short ’17 is a marketing specialist at Kdan’s headquarters in Tainan, Taiwan.

Juniata professor Wei-Chung Wang is also an executive at this company, and has been helping her get acquainted with her new home.

“Juniata has given me the opportunity to engage directly with professors and staff for advice and recommendations regarding my future career.

Without this help, I wouldn’t have received my internship at Larson Design Group where I have the opportunity to pursue a full-time role after graduation!”

—Hayden Snook ’18 MARKETING

A Sampling of Courses Auditing Bargaining & Conflict Management Behavioral Analysis of Organizations Corporate Taxation Cyber Marketing Economics of the Environment Entrepreneurship Financial Markets & Institutions Human Resource Management International Political Economy Investing: Your Future Legal Regulation of Business Managerial Accounting Management Information Systems Marketing Strategies Portfolio Management Quantitative Business Analysis Sports Management

A Business POE Story During your first year at Juniata, take introductory courses in financial accounting, the management process, behavioral analysis of organizations, and microeconomics. As you move into your sophomore year, specialize by choosing from designated Programs of Emphasis (POE) in accounting, finance, human resource management, international business, management, marketing, entrepreneurship, business and information technology, or philosophy, politics and economics. Juniata’s newest business POE, business analytics, empowers students to use a variety of quantitative methods to analyze data for the purpose of making better informed business decisions. You can also design your own POE, with the help of two academic advisers, or combine a business POE with another area of study. Examples include international venture creation and sports management.

Faculty At Juniata, 93 percent of faculty hold the highest degree in their field. In the ABE department, 100 percent of faculty have earned Ph.D.s or other terminal degrees like an M.B.A. They serve, first and foremost, as professors. But they also do consultation work and gain certifications—like CPAs, CFE, etc.—that keep their teaching up-to-date and informed. To discover which faculty publish in scholarly journals such as Capitalism and Growth of Government and Earned Income Differentials; who authored papers on the Shakers or development plans for Huntingdon County and Raystown Lake, visit: www.juniata.edu/abe Accounting, Business, and Economics Department Chair: Dominick Peruso, B.S., Saint Francis College, M.Ed., Ph.D., Penn State University; Certified Public Accountant, Certified Management Accountant.

The Juniata business curriculum emphasizes a hands-on approach to learning so that students don’t only see how concepts and theories learned in the classroom apply to the real world—they experience them. Almost every student at Juniata participates in at least one internship—many do more. And, there are many other ways to get involved as well: undergraduate research, clubs, and more. In fact, Juniata ABE students often earn first place in the annual Tau Pi Phi Business Case Competitions against other small colleges.

“The courses in the ABE department are taught using real life situations, preparing students for life after college,” says Destiny Pruss ’18. “Professors often have students interact with local businesses in the community which provides great experience and connections that can be utilized in the future.”

Student Opportunities Study Abroad: Select from international study options on every continent except Antarctica, including business-focused programs in England, Germany, France, Greece, Mexico, Spain, Australia, China, and Japan. Juniata provides you distinctive access to businesses in international contexts. Earn your bachelor’s degree from Juniata and a master’s degree in service management from a German university thanks to a recently created cooperative agreement.

Internships: Juniata business students intern at many companies including the Internal Revenue Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Northwestern Mutual, Case IH, Dreams Resort, QVC, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the Altoona Curve, and in positions throughout Juniata’s campus.

Undergraduate Research: Conduct research in a topic of your choosing with the guidance of a faculty member. Then, present at conferences—like Juniata’s Liberal Arts Symposium, the National Conferences for Undergraduate Research, or other business conferences. Recent examples: Megan Maroney ’18, Sean Do ’18, and Ruinan Gao ’19, “A Statistical Analysis of Students’ Satisfaction with Juniata College;” Brittany Mylnek ’17, “Establishing an online presence for a rural business.”

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Juniata College Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership: The Juniata College Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (JCEL) is a business-creation center featuring the Sill Business Incubator. JCEL provides entrepreneurial support, hands-on learning opportunities, encouragement, and can even fund your business idea through our Student Seed Capital Fund.