The MAcc Curriculum

Accountancy Curriculum

Our accountancy curriculum is continually updated to reflect the changing environment of public accounting. All MAcc students will take the following courses:

Courses
ACC 622 Information for Business Valuation and Decisions (3) Framework and skills to analyze financial information for business valuation and capital allocation decisions including applications through case analysis. Emphasis is on using financial information for four types of analyses: business strategy, accounting, financial, and prospective.
ACC 646

Taxation and Decision Making (3) Taxes play a major role in determining the costs and benefits of all business transactions.  This course will provide the tools necessary to identify, understand and evaluate tax planning opportunities.  First, a conceptual framework will be developed for thinking about how taxes affect business decisions.  Once developed, the framework will be applied to a variety of business settings (e.g., capital structure, investments, tax arbitrage, multijurisdictional income).

ACC 650 Fraud Examination (3) Study of the process of locating, investigating, and documenting fraud in a business environment. In addition to learning about serveral common types of fraud schemes, students will learn how and why occupational fraud is committed, how fraudulent conduct can be deterred, and how allegations of fraud should be investigated and resolved within the current legal environment.
ACC 653 Assurance Services (3) Focuses on fundamentals and emerging issues related to assurance services and involves researching and resolving practice oriented problems. In addition to other relevant topics selected by the instructor, the course covers audit sampling, EDP auditing, and computer-assisted audit techniques.
ACC 655 GRMR I (3) First of a two-course capstone sequence in governance, risk management, and reporting. Study of the process of identifying, measuring, and controlling strategic and business process risk utilizing accepted accounting frameworks from both internal and external perspectives. The concepts studied in this course are the theoretical foundation for business risk auditing approaches being utilized by international accounting firms. The process of designing effective risk management strategies and controls are examined within specific industries and accounting settings.
ACC 695 GRMR II (3) Second in a two-course capstone sequence in governance, risk management, and reporting. See ACC 655.

Non-accountancy Curriculum

This requirement offers you the opportunity for study in non-accountancy courses that complement your accountancy coursework. We have worked with other departments in the Farmer School of Business to design courses specifically for our program. All MAcc students will complete the following non-accountancy coursework:

Courses

FIN 655

Analysis of Business Finance and Investments (3) Furthers understanding of the finance functions for the MAcc student. Course had three interrelated themes: 1) acquisition and management of long-term sources of finance, 2) acquisition and management of short-term assets and financing, and 3) utilization of the capital markets where financial assets issued by corporations are bought and sold.
MGT 615 Seminar in Managerial Skills (3) Concerned with development of skills essential for effective exercise of management. Skills include, but are not limited to the following: negotiation, conference leadership, decision-making, oral and written presentations, interpersonal skills, power, and persuasion.
MIS 625 Management of Information Technology (3) Offers rigorous study of information technology (IT) resources in organizations with an emphasis on electronic commerce technologies. The underlying theme of this course is strategic uses of IT by organizations for operating support, improving productivity, and gaining competitive advantage. Includes study of SAP/ERP software.
MIS 682 Information Technology Security and Audit (3) This course is designed to examine the critical business issues, technological infrastructure, and contemporary foundations of information risk management, security, assurance and IT audit (within the context of both extrenal and internal audits), including the principles on which managerial strategy can be formulated and technical solutions can be selected and tested.

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