Master of Accountancy

Lead Faculty: Dr. Thomas S. Rim

The Master of Accountancy provides a comprehensive series of accounting, tax, and auditing courses together with a strong underpinning of business courses that include economics, business law, finance, management, and management science. The program is designed with CPA Exam content specifications in mind so that the curriculum covers the topics in all four parts of the CPA Exam and also the two parts of the Certified Management Accountant (CMA) exam. The program 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 tax practitioners, state and local government agencies, various states boards/departments of revenue, Internal Revenue Service, and Government Accountability Office.Program Admission Information Applicants must have a minimum of a bachelors degree in any discipline. However, students who have a bachelors degree in Accounting must email the Lead Faculty for the program and obtain written approval to enroll in the program. All students are advised to contact a fulltime accounting faculty member for a brief interview by phone or personal visit for the purpose of reviewing the students career objectives and providing guidance regarding the courses to be selected.

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

Program Information

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Online Education

This program is available online.

Program Locations

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

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