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MBA in Accountancy Course Descriptions

30 Total Credit Hours 

Students seeking the MBA in Accounting must complete all required core courses along with 9 credit hours in the Accounting concentration courses.

Required Courses

  • BUS 602 – Accounting for Managers 3 credits. This graduate level course is designed to provide insight into managerial accounting concepts with a focus on real-world application. Specifically, this course will examine managerial accounting tools and resources that assist managers with business decisions spanning different disciplines, including human resources, marketing, finance and operations. Standard costing, budgeting and forecasting methodologies will be examined. Financial statements will be analyzed by examining key ratios and trends. Sustainability reporting, which is becoming increasingly more important for businesses today, will also be covered. An entrepreneurial perspective will be provided throughout different aspects of the course, including an entrepreneurship case study. This course is challenging, fast paced and relevant for business managers or those making or supporting business decisions. 
  • BUS 603 – Organizational Development/Behavior 3 credits. Organizational Development and Behavior is the study of human behavior in an organizational setting. The purpose of this kind of study is to equip organizational leaders with the insight necessary to develop interpersonal relationships that will build teams, increase productivity, enhance the quality of work life, orchestrate change, improve employee retention, and augment communication. Topics in management including: Perception, Personality and Attitudes, Group Process: Building Teams, Communication, Orchestrating Change, Motivation, Empowerment, Leadership, Performance Appraisals and Business Ethics. 
  • BUS 606 – Strategic Marketing 3 credits. This is a course that intends to integrate marketing knowledge and apply it in addressing strategic decision making situations. Strongly emphasizing application, the course is centered around the process of analyzing cases in marketing management with the express purpose of making clear, specific, and justifiable strategic marketing decisions. This course emphasizes the use of analytical skills in making judgments under uncertainty in a variety of marketing contexts, including strategic selling, sales management, new product introduction, franchising, marketing research, and others. It is intended to help students apply critical thinking skills in making better decisions using strategic criteria.
  • BUS 607 – Corporate Finance 3 credits. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the world of corporate finance. Topics covered include financial statement analysis, cost of capital, capital structure, common stock valuation, capital budgeting, market efficiency, dividend policy, mergers and acquisitions, corporate hedging, and corporate restructuring and failure. 
  • BUS 617 – Supply Chain and Negotiations 3 credits. The course is designed to help students learn how to identify, dissect, and answer management level problems. To remedy the crucial challenges facing organizations, students will review, analyze, and evaluate solutions. Students cultivate skills using decision and visualization tools, logic frameworks, and negotiation tactics. Students will present fact-based analysis and recommendations in oral and written formats to persuade an audience to support recommendations. 
  • BUS 618 – Managing Information and Technology 3 credits. This course provides the foundation for business professionals to collaborate with IT experts while making business decisions with a significant technology component. This course is more strategic than technical and is designed to help the students appreciate and integrate the idea of IT as a critical and strategic asset of the enterprise. This course will cover the strategic use of IS/IT in various industries and sectors including health care, financial services, professional services, manufacturing, distribution, government, among others.

Capstone

  • BUS 609 – MBA Strategic Management 3 credits. Students will develop an understanding of strategy and its formulation, implementation, and evaluation. The course focuses on strategic management decisions and actively incorporates multi-disciplinary elements of marketing, finance, operations, and quantitative analysis. It is designed to help students learn how to identify, dissect, and answer strategic management problems; research, analyze, and offer solutions to crucial challenges facing organizations; and present fact-based analysis and recommendations in oral and written formats to persuade an audience to support recommendations. The course utilizes readings, business cases and real-life examples to accomplish the synthesis. 

Accounting Concentration Requirements

  • BUS 703 – Intermediate Accounting I 3 credits. An in-depth study of the theoretical foundations of financial accounting and reporting at the intermediate level. Topics include the accounting conceptual framework, the accounting information system, advanced financial statement preparation (balance sheet, income statement, statement of stockholders’ equity and statement of cash flows), footnote disclosures, time value of money concepts, accounting for cash, receivables, inventories, property, plant, and equipment, and intangible assets. International accounting convergence topics are introduced. The course includes an introduction to Sage Peachtree accounting software. Application of topics through written case analyses and through research in the FASB Accounting Standards Codification is required. 
  • BUS 705 – Cost Accounting I 3 credits. In addition to providing data used to cost products and services, cost accounting provides data to managers for planning and controlling. Today cost accountants are increasingly expected to actively contribute in the making of strategic decisions instead of simply providing data. Cost accounting is a managerial tool used by business to formulate strategy and its implementation. The course’s focus is upon how accounting information can assist managers in controlling the activities for which they are responsible, and how manager’s use cost information to make better decisions to improve their organization’s competitiveness. The course covers the fundamentals of cost accounting, including job order, process, and activity based costing. Particular emphasis is given to current practices in cost control through reports to management.
  • BUS 723 – Business Law II 3 credits. This course builds upon the content from Business Law I, presenting topics such as commercial paper, real property, secured transactions, bankruptcy, partnerships, corporations, wills and trusts through a case study approach. The presented content reinforces (1) an understanding of how the law affects business operations; (2) an understanding of the principle of “stare decisis” and the ability to apply the rule of precedent to case studies; (3) skills to use current technology in completing a legal research project involving a current ethical issue; and (4) a thorough understanding of business law principles.