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MS-Accounting degree program
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Objective
The
MS-Accounting degree program (MSA) prepares students for professional careers in the
public, private, or governmental sector. As part of this objective the
program is designed to provide the educational background to become a
Certified Public Accountant or to attain other professional
certifications.
The
MSA degree is designed for individuals who hold an undergraduate degree
in accounting who wish to specialize in an area of accounting other than
taxation. Students who want to specialize in taxation should consider
the MS-Taxation degree.
Coursework
The
MS-Accounting
degree requires a minimum of 36 semester hours of coursework. Included in this
total are:
18 semester hours of
required accounting courses
06 semester hours of accounting
electives
12 semester hours of business electives
36 total semester hours
The required accounting coursework includes
accounting courses that may have been completed by the student at the
undergraduate level (entities tax, advanced accounting, governmental
accounting). If the student has recently earned credit for one or more
of these courses then
the related graduate requirements are waived and there is a corresponding increase
in graduate accounting electives. Students completing the
department's BS-Accounting degree will have completed two of these three
courses and will therefore have 12 hours of accounting electives.
All of the business electives may be concentrated in a single business
discipline (economics, finance, information systems, management,
marketing). Up to three hours of accounting may be taken in the business
electives category.
Due to the new CPA exam eligibility requirements, it is strongly
recommended that BCOM 5375 (Business Communications) and ACCT 5380 (Ethics in
Accounting) be selected as two of the student's business electives.
Ethics is not considered an accounting course, but rather a business
elective.
For details see the degree checklist
(pdf, 70K).
Background Requirements
The program also includes a requirement that students demonstrate
competency in certain background (undergraduate-level) 'General
Education', 'Business Education', and 'Accounting Education' areas prior to enrollment in
advanced coursework. If college-level courses in these areas have not
been completed with a grade of A or B, students must include these
courses in their program of work.
Students who hold an undergraduate accounting degree will normally
satisfy the background requirements without additional coursework.
Sample Programs of Work
One of the strengths of the MS-Accounting degree is that one-half of the
degree consists of electives (6 hours of accounting electives and 12
hours of business electives).
The presence of four business electives
that can be focused in one business discipline permits the student to
create a program with a specific accounting track and a concentration in
another business discipline. For those students who wish to concentrate
their four business electives in a single discipline the following
suggestions are made:
Economics Concentration
ECON 5313 Managerial Economics
ECON 5314 Industrial Organization
ECON 5319 Analysis of International Business
ECON 5321 International Trade
Finance Concentration
FINA 5327 Financial Derivatives
FINA 5330 Corporate Finance
FINA 5331 International Finance
FINA 5334 Financial Institutions
Information Systems
Concentration
INSY 5308 Advanced Programming
INSY 5330 Information and Systems Concepts
INSY 5335 Database Management
INSY 5343 Communications and Networking
Management Concentration
MANA 5320 Organizational
Behavior
MANA 5324 Team and Group Behavior
MANA 5340 Human Resource Management
MANA 5341 Staffing Management
Marketing Concentration
MARK 5320 Buyer Behavior
MARK 5330 Service Marketing
MARK 5332 Industrial Marketing
MARK 5340 Marketing Strategy
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