Financial Management and Accounting

Graduate School of Management and Technology

Requirements

Program Rules

1. Students must have completed 15 credits of undergraduate accounting courses with a grade of C or better in each class before enrolling in any graduate accounting course.
2. ACCT 610 must be taken prior to any other accounting courses.
3. Students must complete all courses except either ACCT 665 or INFA 610 before enrolling in MSAT 670.

Recommendations

1. It is strongly recommended that ACCT 612 be taken before ACCT 608.
2. Students who wish to improve their graduate writing skills may take COMM 600, Academic Writing for Graduate Students (3).
3. Students without recent coursework in accounting are strongly advised to complete UCSP 620 before enrolling in ACCT 610.

Required Accounting Courses

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

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

Required Information Technology Courses

• ISAS 610 Information Systems Management and Integration (3)
• ISAS 630 Systems Analysis and Design (3)
• ISAS 650 Information Technology, the CIO, and Organizational Transformation (3)
• INFA 610 Computer Security, Software Assurance, Hardware Assurance, and Security Management (3)
• IMAT 637 IT Acquisitions Management (3)

Capstone Course: MSAT 670 Accounting and Information Technology Capstone (3)

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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