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Curriculum - 2020 Catalog

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, prerequisites, and leveling requirement information is available in the Graduate Catalog. 

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Planned Course Offerings By Term 

 Core Courses (7 courses, 21 credits required)

CourseTitlePrerequisite 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)

CourseTitlePrerequisite Fall   Spring Summer
ACCM 5060 Commercial Law for Accountants ACCM 5050 or ACC 2020     X 
ACCM 5220 Practical Business Analytics Peregrine leveling module X    
ACCM 5230 Data Mining for Business Intelligence Peregrine leveling module   X  
ACCM 5650 Legal Elements of Fraud ACCM 5600  X     
ACCM 5800 Applied Internal Auditing ACCM 5020 or ACCM 5100 or ACC 3520   X   
ACCM 5820 Data Analysis for Fraud and Litigation  ACCM 5200 or ACCM 5600   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)

CourseTitlePrerequisite Fall   Spring Summer
ACCM 5810 Small Business Consulting and Accounting ACCM 5100 or ACC 3510, & ACCM 5400 or ACC 3400 X    
ACCM 5901 Internal Audit 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 

 

 


Leveling Course Requirement (if assigned)

Students without an accounting degree may be required to take the following leveling classes in conjunction with the MPAcc curriculum. The following courses are each 3 credit hours:

 

Leveling classes do not count towards degree completion.

Peregrine Leveling Modules

Applicants will be required to successfully complete the following leveling modules with a 70%+ on the post test before taking ACCM 5050, ACCM 5220, and/or ACCM 5230. The modules serve as a prerequisite to these courses and must be taken prior to beginning the course. Each module takes 4–6 hours to complete and costs $49.

The modules are:

    • Foundations of Accounting (before taking ACCM 5050, if assigned)
    • Foundations of Business Integration and Strategic Management (before taking ACC 5220 or ACCM 5230)
    • Foundations of Quantitative Research Techniques and Statistics (before taking ACCM 5220 or ACCM 5230)

 

As a reminder, after successful completion of the leveling module with 70%+ on the post-test, please send a copy of the completion certificate to your MPAcc Advisor to record your progress.

 

To login to the course, visit https://micro.peregrineacademics.com/site/msudenver/login.php.

The password is: MSUD-1001

 

The registration process should take no more than 5 minutes to complete. Upon completion of your registration you will receive a confirmation email with your exam/course link for taking the exam, at the email address you provide.

If you have any problems with the registration process, please visit the technical support page, https://www.peregrineacademics.com/home/technical-support.

If you have other questions about the Peregrine Modules, visit the FAQ page, https://peregrineacademics.freshdesk.com/support/solutions.

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