MAcc - The Curriculum
The program requires a minimum of thirty semester credit hours of graduate studies: Twelve hours in the required core, twelve accounting elective hours and six graduate business elective hours. A student may take the twelve accounting elective hours by selecting an emphasis from among general accounting or tax emphasis areas.
Required Core Courses (12 hours)
| ACCT601 Federal Income Tax |
3 sem. hrs. |
| ACCT610 Advanced Accounting Information Systems |
3 sem. hrs. |
| ACCT611 Advanced Auditing |
3 sem. hrs. |
| ACCT612 Accounting Theory and Practice |
3 sem. hrs. |
Accounting Emphasis Electives (12 hours)
Tax Emphasis:
| ACCT602 Advanced Federal Income Tax |
3 sem. hrs. |
| ACCT603 Partnership and S Corporation Taxation |
3 sem. hrs. |
| ACCT604 Estate, Gifts, and Trust Planning |
3 sem. hrs. |
| ACCT606 Tax Research/Planning |
3 sem. hrs. |
| ACCT607 State and Local Taxation |
3 sem. hrs. |
| ACCT619 Cases in Taxation |
3 sem. hrs. |
General Emphasis:
| ACCT600 Managerial Accounting |
3 sem. hrs. |
| ACCT605 Accounting Legal Issues and Ethics |
3 sem. hrs. |
| ACCT620 Cases in Financial/Managerial Accounting |
3 sem. hrs. |
| ACCT621 Government and Not-For-Profit Accounting |
3 sem. hrs. |
| ACCT622 Seminar in International Accounting |
3 sem. hrs. |
| ACCT625 Topics in Accounting |
3 sem. hrs. |
Business Electives (6 hours)
The elective courses are chosen from the large number of Master of Business Administration (MBA) and International Master of Business Administration (IMBA) courses. These courses allow the student to address functional weaknesses or pursue additional specialization. For example, a student could take a group of courses related to health care management or banking and finance or international business. Students with no Baccalaureate degree in accounting are encouraged to take more accounting electives in place of the business electives.
MAcc Degree Requirements :
- Overall minimum grade point average of 3.0 in graduate studies.
- Satisfactory completion of 30 graduate hours: 12 core graduate hours (4 courses), 12 accounting emphasis elective graduate hours (4 courses), and 6 business elective graduate hours (2 courses) within six calendar years for the MAcc.
- Application for graduation by the dates published by the Registrar.
- Participation in Commencement exercises.
