Financial Management and Accounting

Graduate School of Management and Technology

Requirements

Recommendations

Students who have not taken a finance course recently are strongly encouraged to take UCSP 620 and UCSP 621 prior to taking MGMT 640.

Students who have not had any recent statistics use should take UCSP 630 prior to taking MGMT 650.

Students who wish to improve their graduate writing skills may take COMM 600, Academic Writing for Graduate Students (3).

Core Required Courses

UCSP 611 Introduction to Graduate Library Research Skills (0), to be taken within the first 6 credits of study

• MGMT 610 The Manager in a Technological Society (3)
• MGMT 615 Intercultural Communication and Leadership (3)
• MGMT 640 Financial Decision Making for Managers (3)
• MGMT 650 Statistics for Managerial Decision Making (3)

Capstone Course: MGMT 670 Strategic Management Capstone (3)

Clustered Course Option

MGMT 630 Organizational Theory and Behavior in a Global Environment (6) is a six-credit course. Students who receive credit for MGMT 630 may not receive credit for MGMT 610 or MGMT 615.

Core Rules

1. MGMT 610 must be taken within the first 6 credits of the MS in Management program.
2. Students must complete 24 credits, including other core requirements, before enrolling in MGMT 670.
3. MGMT 640 and MGMT 650 should not be completed simultaneously.
4. MGMT 640 is prerequisite to FIN 610 in the Financial Management specialization.

Accounting (ACCT) Specialization Required Courses

• ACCT 610 Financial Accounting (3)
• ACCT 611 Management Accounting (3)
• ACCT 612 Auditing Process (3)
• ACCT 608 Fraud Examination and Accounting Ethics (3)
• ACCT 614 Accounting Information Systems (3)
• ACCT 613 Federal Income Taxation (3)
• ACCT 665 Selected Topics in Accounting: Combined Entities, Multinational, Government, and Nonprofit Accounting (3)

Specialization Rules

1. ACCT 610 must be taken prior to any other graduate accounting courses.
2. Students must have completed 15 credits of undergraduate accounting work with a grade of C or better before enrolling in graduate level accounting courses.
3. Students may be accepted into the degree program with less than the required 15 credit hours, but should take the undergraduate credit hours while they take the core courses.

Note: Some course names and numbers were updated beginning with the fall 2007 semester. If you began the program prior to fall 2007 and have chosen to follow your original, pre-fall 2007 requirements, you should use the pre-fall 2007 Study Plan for this degree.

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