Master of Accountancy

Lead Faculty: Dr. Joyce Ellis

The Master of Accountancy (MAcc) academically prepares students for a wide range of accounting-related careers, including public accounting, corporate accounting, internal auditing, accounting in not-for-profit organizations, and job opportunities with state and local government agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service, Defense Contract Audit Agency, FBI and others. The program is designed for students with little or no previous accounting background who have an undergraduate degree in any discipline, but it is not appropriate for students with an undergraduate degree in accounting. Course content is based largely on the published content specifications of the Uniform CPA Exam. Students who do well in this academic program and who also, upon completing the program, invest several hundred hours of study in a recognized CPA Exam review course, have a good to excellent chance of passing the CPA Exam. Also, the CPA Exam contains questions in areas other than accounting, including business law, economics, and finance, so students whose undergraduate coursework did not include these subjects should consider taking college level courses in these subject areas or depend upon coverage in a CPA Exam review course.

Program Learning Outcomes

1. Measure, prepare, analyze, and report accounting information based on generally accepted accounting principles for businesses and for governmental and non-profit entities.
2. Utilize current information technologies, methodologies, and systems, to plan, implement, execute, and analyze performance of the organization and its resources.
3. Apply tax rules and regulations relating to individuals and business enterprises.
4. Analyze cost and managerial accounting data and other qualitative information to prepare reports for external and internal decision-making.
5. Utilize auditing principles and procedures applicable to business, governmental, and not-for-profit entities.
6. Apply ethical and legal concepts to accounting and tax problems.
7. Integrate the knowledge and skills acquired from the program to analyze and solve accounting related issues.
8. Demonstrate effective communication of accounting information.

Requirements

• ACC 601M Foundations of Financial Acc
• ACC 657 Accounting Information Systems
• ACC 640M Acc for Gov't & NFP Entities
• ACC 630M Cost Accounting
• ACC 631M Advanced Managerial Accounting
• ACC 610M Financial Accounting I
• ACC 611M Financial Accounting II
• ACC 612M Financial Accounting III
• ACC 615M Advanced Financial Accounting
• ACC 620M Taxation of Individuals
• ACC 621M Taxation of Bus & Oth Entities
• ACC 650M Auditing Principles
• ACC 651M Auditing Procedures
• ACC 695M Cases in Accounting & Auditing

Program Information

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Online Education

This program is available online.

Program Locations

• Costa Mesa Campus
• Sacramento Campus
• Spectrum Business Park Campus

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