Courses

In this comprehensive 30-credit master's in accounting program, you will take 10 courses. The curriculum is carefully designed to include courses that explicitly address the content critical to your successful preparation for the CPA exam.

Your final capstone course (ACCTG 803) will integrate material you learned in the preceding courses and, through case studies, will focus on investigative accounting, consulting, and litigation support activities that you undertake in forensic accounting engagements.

Course List - Master of Professional Accounting

Required Courses (27 credits)
Title	Abbreviation	Description	Credits
Auditing Theory and Practice	ACCT 504	Auditing theory pertaining to the regulatory environment, risk assessment, internal controls, materiality, computerization, analytical procedures, sampling, fraud, ethics, and professional responsibilities.	3 credits
Business Tax Planning Theory and Practice	ACCT 510	Tax theory pertaining to corporations, partnerships and conduit entities, estates, trusts, ethics, and professional tax responsibilities.	3 credits
Accounting Information and Decision Systems	ACCT 532	The study of business processes, transactions cycles, and internal control structure with an emphasis on computerized accounting information systems.	3 credits
Strategic Cost Management	ACCT 545	Current managerial accounting topics such as activity-based costing, theory of constraints, performance measures, and their use in organizations.	3 credits
Professional Responsibilities and Ethics in Accounting	ACCT 550	The study of ethical systems and ethical decision making and their application in accounting.	3 credits
Financial Statement Analysis II	ACCT 561	The exploration of conventional and advanced methods of analyzing financial statements, including earnings quality and financial distress assessment.	3 credits
Financial Reporting I	ACCT 572	Accounting theory and practice for reporting consolidations, foreign currency transactions, and preparing financial statements for governmental and NGOs.	3 credits
Advanced UCC and Commercial Transactions	BLAW 444	All articles of the Uniform Commercial Code, banking relationships, debtor-creditor law, and bankruptcy law.	3 credits
Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting	PADM 523	Accounting, reporting, and auditing principles and procedures for public sector agencies and nonprofit organizations.	3 credits

Capstone Course (3 credits)
Title	Abbreviation	Description	Credits
Forensic Accounting and Litigation Support	ACCTG 803	Study of investigative accounting, consulting, and litigation support activities undertaken in forensic accounting engagements.	3 credits

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