The accounting program focuses on the principles of financial reporting, budgeting, auditing, and taxation. Students will be prepared for careers in accounting, graduate or professional school, and to take the CPA exam.

Career Opportunities

  • Accounting Accountant
  • Forensic accountant
  • Cost accountant
  • Actuarial analyst
  • Business adviser
  • Business analyst
  • Chartered management accountant
  • Management consultant
  • Corporate attorney
  • Financial planner

What to Expect

Hub/Support/Tutoring

Designated accounting and finance tutoring lab

Travel/Global Trips

The cross-cultural trip is a core requirement for students. Lee University places a high emphasis on the value of global perspectives, and students can fulfill this requirement via an individually arranged trip, a faculty-led trip, or a semester study abroad program. For more information, please visit our Global Perspectives page.

Club/Social

  • Phi Beta Lambda
  • Delta Mu Delta Honor Society
  • Phi Eta Sigma

Awards/Honors

  • Two Hicks Scholars each year
  • School of Business Award
  • Accounting Award
  • Cletus Benton Award (Most outstanding rising senior)

Service

Service learning is a large component of life at Lee. Students have the opportunity to complete 80 hours of service throughout their time here. This includes individually arranged service projects, as well as course-led service projects (such as Gateway and Benevolence). Please visit our Service Learning page to learn more and check out current service opportunities”

 

Home/Location

Accounting classes are housed in the School of Business.

Internships/Practicum

  • Business Advisory Council: assists business students with internships and job placements
  • Internships available with CPA offices, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Olin, Unum, Tennova, and various banks.
  • Meet the Firms: students are invited to Meet the Firms where we invite local CPA firms and other organizations to come and meet our students.

Research

Current or recent research projects have involved women in poverty, success on the major field test in the management discipline, developing business plans for global nonprofits, and holistic teaching practices.

SOB Honors

Reaccredited by ACBSP with no conditions or suggestions for improvements. This is exceptionally rare for a school to be reaccredited with no findings.

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Our faculty are academically and professionally accomplished in the business world, and they are particularly focused on faith integration and why it’s crucial in business. Great teaching takes top priority with their considerable expertise in current research and practices serving to enhance their instruction. The entire business curriculum is built around the idea of learning by doing, and they constantly develop unique ways to teach through this method. Most of all, they love working with college students. These caring professionals trust students with difficult material because they are there in the process, believing in the student’s ability to overcome challenge and achieve mastery.

 

Michaelia Black

Michaelia Black, EdD, CPA

Assistant Professor of Accounting
Specialty: Managerial Accounting & Analytics
School of Business | Location: SOB 306B
Phone: (423) 473-1175
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Guy Deloach

Guy Deloach, DBA

Professor of Business Administration
Specialty: Operations Management / Strategic Management
School of Business | Location: SOB 305
Phone: (423) 614-8169
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Amy Russin

Amy Dummer, MBA, CPA

Assistant Professor of Accounting
Specialty: Auditing
School of Business | Location: SOB 203 B
Phone: (423) 614-8667
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Kathy Estes

Kathy Estes, PhD

Associate Professor of Finance
School of Business | Location: SOB 203C
Phone: (423) 614-1177
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Shane Griffith

Shane Griffith, DBA

Dean for the School of Business / Professor of Business Administration
School of Business | Location: SOB 306F
Phone: (423) 614-8160
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Hermilo Jasso

Hermilo Jasso, PhD

Distinguished Professor of Economics
Specialty: Economics
School of Business | Location: SOB 306J
Phone: (423) 614-8161
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Erica Leggett

Erica Leggett, MBA

Executive Secretary to the Dean of the School of Business
School of Business | Location: SOB 306F
Phone: (423) 614-8160
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Randal Miedaner

Randall Miedaner, JD, CPA

Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Specialty: Accounting, Tax, & Business Law
School of Business | Location: SOB 306C
Phone: (423) 614-1176
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Lillian Parsons

Secretary to the School of Business & MBA Program Assistant
School of Business | Location: SOB 306H
Phone: 423-614-8694
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Holly Perleoni

Holly Perleoni, DBA

Associate Dean and Director of Graduate Studies / Associate Professor of Marketing
School of Business | Location: SOB 306H
Phone: (423) 614-8694
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Allison Pierce

Allison Pierce, PhD

Associate Professor of Business Administration
Specialty: Healthcare Administration & Human Resources
School of Business | Location: SOB 203G
Phone: (423) 614-8164
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Jaimme Preston, MBA, LNHA

Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Specialty: Healthcare Administration & Marketing
School of Business | Location: SOB 306E
Phone: (423) 614-8543
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Beth Seymour

Beth Seymour, DBA,CPA

Assistant Professor of Accounting
Specialty: Non-Profit and Governmental Accounting
School of Business | Location: SOB 306D
Phone: (423) 614-8224
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Kostas Stamatiadis, DBA

Assistant Professor of Business
School of Business | Location: SOB 203E
Phone: (423) 614-8311
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An important link between the classroom and business world is the Business Advisory Council, which meets annually. Members include business leaders, alumni, and educators.

The Council:

  • Serves as a communication channel between Lee University and the business community.
  • Provides advice on curriculum and programs.
  • Recommends business and industry personalities as potential part-time instructors and speakers.
  • Assists business students with internships and job placement.
  • Assists business faculty in developing career and job fairs.
  • Informs the school about changes in the labor market.
  • Assesses program needs.

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The School of Business hopes to transform the lives of students through the highest quality business programs focused on the application of Christian values. There are three core principles embedded throughout the School of Business: (1) We integrate our faith with our discipline, thus producing graduates who consider the impact of Scripture on decision making; (2) Critical thinking is infused in the curriculum and students must support responses with logic, theory, and experience; and (3) Experiential learning is a hallmark of our academic pedagogy. In lower-level classes, this is accomplished with guest speakers or brief case applications. In upper-level courses, students experience hands-on projects, competing in a virtual industry, and solving comprehensive cases requiring extensive research with results presented in a classroom setting. 

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Take a quick look at life in the School of Business; our faculty, facilities, and students make for a dynamic and close-knit learning community.

What businesses are Saying...

We have been honored to partner with the Lee University School of Business for several years in our continued talent search for the best and brightest graduates from local universities. As much as we look for students with excellent academic achievement, we also look for passion and drive which is something we see within our Lee University hires.  Many of our Lee University campus recruits have taken full advantage of the opportunities offered at HHM to become managers and even partners at our firm.  These Lee graduates help HHM uphold its stellar reputation of providing professional services while displaying good stewardship within the communities we serve.  HHM looks forward to many more years of enjoying a successful partnership with Lee.

Makaylah Everett Ariazi

Marketing Coordinator – HHM CPAs

MorningPointe Senior Living has benefited tremendously from working with the Lee University students.  The quality of the students’ work, punctuality and job knowledge speaks volumes about the professors and their program.  Well done, Lee!

Doru Mihaescu

Vice President of Information Technology – Independent Healthcare Properties & MorningPointe

The School of Business at Lee prepared and equipped me to be able to add value to a corporation right out of their program. I would highly recommend Lee’s School of Business program since you will be challenged, and it is close to Chattanooga where many internship opportunities exist. You will be able to connect what’s being taught in the classroom with what’s happening in the business world. All the while, you are in an environment where Jesus Christ is exalted.

Jonathan McCaleb

Technology Risk Consultant – EY

After graduating from Lee University in December 2021, I was nervous but excited about beginning my career. After interviewing at several different companies, I found my home as a Campus Recruiter for Total Quality Logistics. I was able to transfer skills to my current position that I learned at Lee, such as organization, communication, and relationship building.  These skills made the transition into the work force so easy. Through this position, I am able to help give others an opportunity to start out in the work force on the right foot. Lee prepared me for Christ centered excellence in college and beyond.

Laynie Rath

Campus Recruiter – Total Quality Logistics
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Elijah Patty

Elijah Patty, a business administration major from Cleveland, Tennessee, is a member of Tau Kappa Omega, a student worker in the School of Business, and a student ambassador on the Admissions team, which he loves because he gets to “share my passion for Lee and hear cool stories from incoming students around the world.” Along with being on the Dean’s list, Elijah is a member of LEAP (Learn Engage Achieve Program) and a B.L. Hicks Scholar but is most thankful for a deeper insight as to who God is in his life. “The faith integration into the classroom has helped me understand how to carry out my future career in a Christ-like manner.” After graduation, Elijah plans to pursue his MBA at Lee.