M.S. in Accounting and Business Advisory Services
Master
In Baltimore (USA)
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Baltimore (USA)
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Start date
Different dates available
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Credits
30-57 credits
The M.S. in Accounting and Business Advisory Services programs gives you the competitive advantage and the technical skills you need for effective and ethical business consulting and is an ideal choice if you are looking to:
- build on your undergraduate degree
- satisfy some of the coursework to sit for the CPA exam
- fulfill the 150 hours of education requirement for a certified public
- accountant license in Maryland.
- apply accounting knowledge and concepts to regulatory environments,
- external reporting, securities acts and Sarbanes-Oxley
- possess the necessary research skills to study business and accounting
- problems effectively
- define business information needs and the technological solutions to meet those needs.
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Subjects
- Taxation
- Business Accounting
- Finance
- Financial
- Financial Training
- Contemporary issues in financial reporting
- Managerial cost and control systems
- Assurance services
- Financial analysis and strategy
- Investment analysis
- Database management systems analysis
Course programme
Foundation Coursework [0 - 27 credits]
Note: To meet accounting undergraduate equivalency requirements, students may be required to complete some or all of the courses listed below. A maximum of 27 credits of the Foundation Coursework (Accounting and Business Prep Courses) may be waived.
Accounting Foundation Courses
- Accounting Essentials (1.5 cr) -or- ACCT 201 and ACCT 202
- Intermediate Accounting I (3 cr) -or- ACCT 301
- Intermediate Accounting II (3 cr) -or- ACCT 302
- Auditing plus Accounting Information Systems (3 cr) -or- ACCT 317 and ACCT 401
- Intermediate Accounting III / Advanced Accounting (3 cr) -or- ACCT 310 and ACCT 403
- Income Taxation (3 cr)
- Cost Accounting (3 cr) ACCT 605 Performance Management and Accounting (3) may be used to satisfy
Business (Non-Accounting) Foundation Courses
- MicroEconomics (1.5 cr)
- MacroEconomics (1.5 cr)
- Essentials of Finance (1.5 cr)
- Fundamentals of Statistics (1.5 cr)
- Managerial Statistics (1.5 cr)
Degree Requirements [30 credits]
Required Courses [9 credits]
- Advanced Topics in Assurance Services (3) -or- IT for Business Transformation (3 cr)
- Advanced Topics in Accounting Systems (3)
- Financial Management (1.5 cr)
- Corporate Finance (1.5 cr)
Choose three courses. [9 credits]
- Forensic Accounting Principles (3 cr)
- Litigation Support (3 cr)
- Performance Management and Accounting Controls
- Contemporary Issues in Financial Reporting (3 cr)
- Taxation of Entities ** (3 cr)
- Accounting Ethics (3 cr)
- Design of Managerial Cost and Control Systems (3 cr)
- Advanced Accounting Reporting Issues (3 cr)
- Graduate Accounting Internship (3 cr)
**Available as electives only for students who have not taken equivalent courses in their undergraduate program.
Electives [12 credits]
Select four elective courses from the following:
- Tax Policy (3 cr)
- Taxation of Entities ** (3 cr)
- Seminar in Current Topics in Accounting ** (3 cr)
- Sustainability Accounting (3)
- Special Topics in Accounting (3 cr)
- Financial Reporting (3 cr)
- Advanced Financial Analysis (3 cr)
- Investment Analysis (3 cr)
- Global Finance (3 cr)
- Risk Management (3 cr)
- Portfolio Management (3 cr)
- Real Estate Investment (3 cr)
- New Venture Financing (3 cr)
- Business Valuation (3 cr)
- Special Topics in Financial Management (3 cr)
- Leadership of the IT Function (3 cr)
- Networking and Telecommunications (3 cr)
- Database Management Systems (3 cr)
- e-Commerce Technologies and Applications (3 cr)
- Systems Analysis and Design (3 cr)
- Information Security in Assurance (3 cr)
- Advanced Topics in Information Systems (3 cr)
- Managing the Sustainable Enterprise (3 cr)
- e-Commerce and Supply Chain Management (3 cr)
- Public Budgeting and Fiscal Administration (3 cr)
**Available as electives only for students who have not taken equivalent courses in their undergraduate program.
M.S. in Accounting and Business Advisory Services