Master of Accounting (MAcc)
Learning Outcomes

The MAcc program is designed to improve the critical thinking, communication, and technical skills for graduates, increasingly required by employers seeking technically qualified accountants. The primary goals of the Master of Accounting degree are:

  • Provide students with advanced technical skills in accounting to help successfully complete the CPA and CMA exams and assume leadership roles in various types of organizations.
  • Provide students with the necessary communication and critical thinking skills to achieve success in the accounting profession.
  • Enable students to prepare, interpret, and analyze all types of financial reports.
  • Enable students to solve new and emerging accounting problems in a global perspective through researching the discipline–specific professional standards or code.
  • Enhance awareness that ethics plays a primary role in all areas of the accounting discipline and performing ones professional duties in an ethical manner is a professional responsibility.
The learning outcomes of the program that will be assessed throughout the program are as follows:
  • Communicate professionally in writing and speaking.
  • Analyze and evaluate ethical dilemmas central to all areas of business more effectively.
  • Evaluate how the historical development of the accounting profession affected today’s standard setting process.
  • Assess how accounting theory is responsible for the development of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).
  • Analyze inconsistencies in GAAP standards and assess whether users’ needs are met.
  • Conduct research in the area of taxation and other accounting issues.
  • Apply GASB (Governmental Accounting Standards Board) standards and analyze how accounting for government and not–for–profit institutions differs from accounting for profit concerns.
  • Analyze a company’s internal control system and design audit procedures to detect fraud.
  • Analyze the typical management control process of strategic planning, budget preparation and operations.
  • Evaluate variations in management internal control systems.
  • Apply analytical tools used in managerial science to solve business problems.
  • Appreciate the interfaces between the accounting and economic approaches in business decisions and apply this knowledge to budget preparation.
  • Apply different types of cost analyses in the decision making process.