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MS in Accounting
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The Master of Science in Accounting is a 10-course, 30-credit* program intended for students with baccalaureate degrees in Public Accounting. Generally, this program is designed to meet the 150-credit-hour educational requirement for the New York State (NYS) CPA examination. However, since undergraduate accounting programs vary greatly across the country and the world, students should visit www.nasba.org in order to determine whether this program in conjunction with the baccalaureate degree in accounting would qualify them to sit for the NYS CPA examination. There is a minimum residency requirement of 30 credits (10 courses).
REQUIRED ACCOUNTING AND TAXATION COURSES (six courses, 18 credits)
AC 7125 Financial Statement Analysis
AC 7136 International Accounting
AC 7160 Internal Reporting and Control
AC 7176 Auditing of Accounting Systems II
TX 7001 Corporate Taxation
TX 7010 Federal Research and Procedure
ACCOUNTING/TAXATION ELECTIVES (three courses, nine credits)
These electives can be any advanced-level accounting or tax courses offered in addition to the required courses except for AC 6111 Fundamentals of Accounting, AC 7105 Financial Accounting and AC 7184 Business and Individual Entity Taxation.
BUSINESS ELECTIVE (one course, three credits)
Recommendations for the advanced-level business elective are:
BE 7230 Macroeconomics
BL 7320 Business Law II
FN 7421 Principles of Modern Finance
*SUPPLEMENTAL COURSEWORK/PREREQUISTES
Based on feedback from accounting partners and executives, as well as recent alumni, we have added prerequisites to the MS in Accounting curriculum:
- candidates who have not had any professional training or academic coursework using basic U.S. tax concepts, e.g., have not taken an U.S. Internal Revenue (IRC) based tax course in their undergraduate studies are required to take
AC 7184 Individual and Business Entity Taxation (3 credits)
- candidates whose native language is not English and who have not completed the full four years of an undergraduate program in the U.S. or U.K. are required to take
MS 809A Advanced Presentations and Public Speaking (1.5 credits)
MS 809B Advanced Corporate Communications for Accounting and Taxation Professionals (1.5 credits)
Individual and Business Entity Taxation and both 1.5-credit courses are required to be taken during the first semester. Although this increases the number of credits and courses required for the MS degree, these courses add significant value.
For students who are required to take the Individual and Business Entity Taxation class, the program is 33 credits.
For students who are required to take the two advanced communications mini-courses, the program is 33 credits.
For students who are required to take Individual and Business Entity Taxation and the two advanced communications mini-courses, the program is 36 credits.
Click here for a printable MS in Accounting program study sheet.
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