Semester 1fall
ACCT 1021Financial Accountingusually fallACCT 8813Financial Accounting Practice Iusually fallACCT 7701Accountingusually fallACCT 7713Accountingusually fall
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Building the department map…
Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.
Generated from Boston College’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
A suggested order for the 20 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 1 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.
Semester 1fall
Semester 2spring
Semester 3fall
Semester 5fall
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate ACCT coursework.
Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate ACCT work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.
Showing the 20 ACCT and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 12 more ACCT courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on ACCT, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Objectives1 required · verify with the official sheet
Objectives The objectives of the Accounting Concentration are as follows: (1) Prepare the student to successfully pass the CPA exam. The exam includes three core parts - covering financial reporting, auditing, and tax – and a fourth part chosen by the candidate (business analysis, information system
Guidelines and Courses1 required · verify with the official sheet
Guidelines and Courses This concentration requires four courses (12 credit hours): one intermediate accounting course, one required elective in either managerial cost analysis or financial statement analysis, and two other electives from a set of approved electives in accounting, finance, business a
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in ACCT. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
3 courses deep, ending at ACCT 3302
3 courses deep, ending at ACCT 3351
3 courses deep, ending at ACCT 6615
2 courses deep, ending at ACCT 8814
Marketing1 required · verify with the official sheet
Marketing Required course: Choose one additional MKTG elective course.
All ACCT courses in the Boston College catalog
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Use your school emailInstructors on ACCT sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.
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