Curriculum

Curriculum

You will complete 30 credit hours for the MPAcc degree:

• 21 credit hours of required core courses
• 6 credit hours of open accounting electives
• 3 credit hours of an experiential learning course

MPAcc degree requirements, course descriptions, and prerequisite information is available in the Graduate Catalog.

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Planned Course Offerings By Term

Core Major Courses (7 courses, 21 credits required)

 

Course	Title	Prerequisite	Fall	Spring	Summer
ACCM 5000	Accounting Ethics, Professionalism, and Leadership	None	X	X
ACCM 5020	Communication and Accounting Research	None		X	X
ACCM 5070	Taxation for Decision Makers	None	X		X
ACCM 5400	Strategic Cost Management	ACCM 5050 or ACC 2020	X	X
ACCM 5510	Accounting Theory	ACCM 5020, & ACCM 5100 or ACC 3520	X	X
ACCM 6580	Financial Statement Analysis and Quantitative Methods	ACCM 5100 or ACC 3510	X	X
ACCM 5200 OR	Contemporary Auditing Issues	ACCM 5100 or ACC 3520	X
ACCM 5600	Fraud Examination Awareness Seminar	ACCM 5100 or ACC 3520		X

Open Accounting Electives (2 courses, 6 credits required)

 

Course	Title	Prerequisite	Fall	Spring	Summer
ACCM 5060	Commercial Law for Accountants	ACCM 5050 or ACC 2020			X
MBA 5220*	Practical Business Analytics	None	X
MBA 5230*	Data Mining for Business Intelligence	None		X
ACCM 5650	Legal Elements of Fraud	ACCM 5600	X
ACCM 5800	Governance and Risk Assurance	ACCM 5020 or ACCM 5100 or ACC 3520		X
ACCM 5090	Tax Research	ACCM 5070 or ACC 3090		X
ACCM 6100	Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders I	ACCM 5070 or ACCM 5090			X
ACCM 6140	Small Business Tax	ACCM 5070 or ACCM 5090	X

Experiential Learning Elective (1 course, 3 credits required)

 

Course	Title	Prerequisite	Fall	Spring	Summer
ACCM 5810	Small Business Consulting and Accounting	ACCM 5100 or ACC 3510, & ACCM 5400 or ACC 3400	X
ACCM 5901	Risk Assurance and Advanced Projects	ACCM 5020	X	X
ACCM 5980	Master’s Accounting Internship	Review and approval needed	X	X	X
ACCM 6080	Tax Site Leadership and Management	Review and approval needed		X
ACCM 6950	Accounting Research Assistantship	Review and approval needed	X	X	X

*Note that MBA 5220 and MBA 5230 are MBA courses that MPAcc students are allowed to take. MBA program specific tuition and fees are associated with these MBA courses.